Ukrainsky Grafit, open-type joint-stock company, is the only Ukrainian manufacturer of graphite electrodes for electric arc steel furnaces, ore furnaces and other types of metallurgical electric furnaces, as well as for lining refractory materials based o

UKRAINSKY GRAFIT

Boris PETROV, Chairman of the Board, Director General of Ukrgrafit

Ukrainsky Grafit, open-type joint-stock company, is the only Ukrainian manufacturer of graphite electrodes for electric arc steel furnaces, ore furnaces and other types of metallurgical electric furnaces, as well as for lining refractory materials based on carbon.

Ukrainsky Grafit is an integral part of the entire Ukrainian metallurgical industry, which provides its products to ferrous and nonferrous manufacturers.

The enterprise was set up in 1933 and became one of first manufacturers of electrodes and carbon-based refractory materials in the country.

Within the subsequent 20 years it occupied the leading position in the country regarding the range and the output of carbon products.

Nowadays, Ukrainsky Grafit, the successor of Dneprovsky electrode works, continues its rich traditions, having modern technologies, a wide range of products with high technological level and quality.

Now the enterprise has strong positions on the international market and successfully cooperates with the CIS, Europe, Canada, the USA, South Africa, Asia.

Paying much attention to improvement of the technological level of manufacture, the enterprise ensures high quality of its products.

It was confirmed by the certificate of quality issued in 1998 for the blocks used for lining of aluminium electrolyzers.

This May SGS-ICS, an independent company, issued a certificate confirming compliance of the company’s quality management system with ISO 9001.

The main motto of the policy in the field of quality is meeting the requirements of each individual consumer.

Simultaneously with introduction of the quality management system, a new approach to satisfaction of the consumers’ requirements has been used. The marketing service together with technical services practices individual approach to orders.

The enterprise is equipped with modern computers. Taking advantage of information technologies Ukrainsky Grafit has its web-site in the Internet (www.ukrgrafit. com.ua) containing information about the enterprise and the range of its products, which is constantly updated. The detailed information can be also received via e-mail (graphite@ukrgrafit.com.ua).

Having free access to external markets to sell its products, Ukrainsky Grafit has great advantages, as the enterprise has an opportunity to conclude direct foreign trade contracts, to adjust and equalize the volumes of demand and supply, and also, that is of no small unimportance is the sole owner of foreign currency received as a result of foreign trade activities, and for this reason the enterprise has an opportunity to carry out its tasks, such as to introduce new technologies, to develop manufacture, to improve quality of fabricated products, to pay wages without delays, and also to create favorable working and living conditions for the employees, and to continue with honor the 67-year-old history of the enterprise, adding new vivid pages to it.

We are open for long-term business cooperation with potential partners, consumers and agents.

NIKOPOL FERROALLOY WORKS

Vladimir KUTSIN, Chairman of the Board

Products manufactured by the enterprise are well-known in Ukraine and abroad, and are supplied to more than 300 metallurgical mills including such industrial giants as Ukraine’s Krivorozhstal, Zaporozhstal, Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, Russia’s Magnitogorsk, Nizhny Tagil, and Kuznetsk Iron and Steel Works. A number of metallurgic enterprises located in Romania, Poland, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Japan are its business partners in non-CIS states. Electric fluxes made by the enterprise are sold to the domestic consumers and are exported to Russia, Belarus, and the Baltic States.

Nikopol Ferroalloy Works boasts to be one of the world’s largest producers of manganese alloys.

Promising directions of its development embrace production of manganese ferroalloys and alloys containing chromium, ferrotitanium, and silicocalcium. These materials are supposed to be produced via the following reorganization and upgrade of the workshops: electric furnace capacities will be redistributed by types of alloys, and the product mix will be optimized. This can be achieved through a greater smelting of low-phosphorus conversion manganese slag provided that one more 75 MV-A electric furnace equipped with slag caster will be phased in addition to the two existing 25 MV-A slag furnaces.

Due to the lowered demand for ferrosilicomanganese and high-carbon ferromanganese in Ukraine, it is planned to curtail their production mothballing three electric furnaces, namely, two 63 MV-A furnaces and one 75 MV-A furnace.

In case the technological process is upgraded, idle capacities could contribute to production of chromium-based ferroalloys. This will make it possible to annually produce:

- some 20,000 tonnes of high-carbon commercial chromium;

- some 11,000 tonnes of high-carbon conversion ferrochromium applied in making of silicochromium;

- some 22,000 tonnes of silicochromium (including 7,000 tonnes of conversion and 15,000 tonnes of commercial silicochromium).

Introduction of these products will make it possible to produce 10,000 tonnes of low-carbon ferrochromium per year.

Electric furnaces installed in workshop No.9 are planned to annually produce approximately 5,000 tonnes of FeTi-30 and Fe-Ti-70 ferrotitanium.

Production of silicocalcium is likely to be launched in the pilot workshop. All these factors will contribute significantly to enhancement of products’ competitiveness.

Manganese and silicon contents in the ferroalloys made by the enterprise are shown in the table. Silicomanganese and ferromanganese are produced in 20-kg chunks with fractions shown in the table.

Expansion of the product mix and quality improvement up to the world standards will allow the enterprise to enhance its ability as regards promotion and protection of its products on foreign markets.

Reference note

March 6, 1966 is considered the official birthday of Nikopol Ferroalloy Works, since on that very day the first products were manufactured in the flux-smelting workshop.

On May 8, 1958 the Council of Ministers of the USSR approved a regulation to work out a project for construction of a factory to manufacture manganese alloys in Nikopol city of Ukraine. The construction commenced in 1962.

In August 1968, smeltery No.2 was put into operation, while in December 1968 the anode paste mill manufactured its first products.

On December 30, 1975, commissioning of RPZ-63 electric furnace marked the beginning of a new development stage in the Works’ history.

In 1978, the sintering mill was established after merger of the charge-conditioning workshop and the sintering plant.

In June 1978, the slag-casting section was created within smeltery No.2. In December 1990, this section was transformed into a separate complex, which applies molten slag to manufacture weighting agents for oil & gas main pipelines; bio-wear-resistant lining for metalwork of metallurgical and chemical machinery; plates; and foundation posts.

In 1984, besides prime products, the Works commenced output of consumer goods, such as construction materials (macadam, granulated slag, and cinder blocks); rolled metal and iron products; plastics; cast slag plates; and foundation posts.

Table 1. Characteristics of the metals cast on Nikopol Ferroalloys Works

*should the parties come to an adequate agreement, fractional content can be changed