Mechel has attended Metal-Expo

Within the expo’s framework, representatives of the Mechel Group’s steel division enterprises held a series of important meetings with potential clients, including Chinese and European companies.

“Mechel Group’s booth became one of the most visited and lively negotiation areas,” Mechel-Steel’s Chief Executive Officer Andrey Ponomarev noted. “This year we saw a great influx of visitors and increased interest toward our steel companies’ products. Over these four days we managed to reach dozens of new agreements, strengthen and expand longstanding partnerships.”

Over 500 companies from 32 countries took part in the expo. The exhibition welcomed over 30,000 visitors from construction, engineering, fuel and energy, transport, logistics and steel trade industries.

Mechel’s corporate booth showcased the products of Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, Urals Stampings Plant, Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant, Izhstal and Vyartsilya Metal Products Plant. Over the four days of the exhibition, some 30 employees of Mechel’s steel division (Mechel Steel) and service and sales company Mechel Service worked at the booth. Guests were offered full information about various kinds of the Mechel Group’s products.

As part of the exhibition, enterprises that upgraded their facilities, developed and mastered new technologies, equipment and products, were awarded. Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant won a gold medal for mastering production of hot-rolled rolls from alloys and specialty steels. The medal-winning products are used in aviation and space industry.

One of Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant’s novelties — steel zinc-plated 4-mm wire ropes for use in the steering control system of civilian and military helicopters — earned the exposition’s gold medal. The plant’s wire ropes are different from those produced earlier by the type of lay of strands and the diameter of wires within. Those give the new ropes additional endurance, which extends their life by several times, while their extra firmness increases the accuracy of steering the helicopter’s control rotor.

Also, as part of the Best Corporate Media in the Steelmaking Industry of Russia and the CIS 2016 contest, the Group’s magazine Our Mechel won the Best Corporate Magazine nomination. Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant’s corporate newspaper Metallurgist, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, won the Best Steelmaking and Hardware Plants Media nomination.