They say about the Urals that it is the supporting Edge of the Power! The fact is that a large number of industrial enterprises are concentrated on its territory. Metallurgical plants have long become an integral part of the Southern Urals. Among them Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant OJSC. The company occupies a leading position among domestic manufacturers of ferroalloys and is able to fully satisfy the demand for these products throughout Russian metallurgy.
The main thing about the plant
The company opened in 1929. The ferroalloy furnace was launched the following year, and in 1934 the electrode production was opened. One by one, the workshops of the enterprise were commissioned. The first three were connected to work until 1960, the other three were built in the period from the 61st to the 78th years of the last century, after combining individual profile plants into a single Chelyabinsk electrometallurgical plant. The enterprise received the status of OJSC in 1992. The statistics of 2008 put ChEMK in 178th place in the ranking of the largest companies. Today about 8 thousand people work in the enterprise. The general director of the plant is Pavel Yakovlevich Khodorovsky. The owners of the company - Yuri Antipov and Alexander Aristov - are well-known businessmen in the city of Chelyabinsk.
The Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant annually produces hundreds of thousands of tons of ferroalloys and ore concentrates, 750 and 250 thousand tons, respectively. This is 80% of all alloys used in the steel industry produced on the Russian market. These include alloys of iron with chromium, silicon, manganese and other substances. The export of products brings good profit. In 2016, for example, the amount of exports amounted to 20 billion rubles.
ChEMK structure
Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant is the production of ferroalloys and electrodes. In total, the structure of the enterprise has more than fifty divisions.
Workshops are functioning:
- electrode production - 6 units;
- ferroalloys - 8 units;
- slag processing - 2 buildings;
- burning limestone;
- electrical substations and networks;
- railway escort;
- ATP;
- leading laboratory of the plant;
- auxiliary sections and workshops - 30 divisions.
For ferroalloy smelting, the company uses arc furnaces. In total, thirty-three electric furnaces operate, their power range is 3.5 - 33 MVA. The level of electricity consumed at the enterprise for every day is more than nine million kilowatt-hours.
Manufactured products
The main products of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant are:
- ferrosilicon;
- ferromanganese;
- silicomanganese;
- silicocalcium;
- ferrochrome;
- ferrosilicochrome;
- electrodes.
The product range of the enterprise is a large number of different ligatures and ferroalloys (125 items) and more than 4 dozen varieties of products of the electrode class.
There is application and waste of the main production. After processing, they are used in various types of construction, agriculture, industry (paint and varnish and rubber).
Environmental conscience
The management and owners of Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant JSC continuously monitor the environmental situation around the enterprise. The risks of pollution are high. Chelyabinsk citizens connect the ecological ill-being of a million-strong city with the work of industrial enterprises, including an electrometallurgical plant. Responsible persons of ChEMK with understanding concern a situation and purposefully act:
- Actively participate in urban environmental events.
- Announce the start of major initiatives, for example, the secondary circulation of production waste. At the same time, dumps located within the city are processed into the necessary building materials (sand, gravel, metal concentrates).
- Take care of the processing of current production waste.
- The suction systems are being reconstructed to reduce dust (since 2011).
- Install modern filters on smelting furnaces.
- They are working on the problem of multi-stage treatment of industrial waters and their effluents into the Miass River.
- They are working on a strategy for the development of environmentally friendly production.
Social infrastructure
The management and trade unions of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant take care of their workers. The enterprise managed to save all the objects of social infrastructure since the times of the USSR. On the balance sheet of the plant are listed and fully functioning: the largest swimming pool in Chelyabinsk (free for CHEMK employees), the sports palace, the summer sports DAK "Akakul", opened in 1936, capable of taking more than two thousand young Chelyabinsk residents for a season. The enterprise has developed a veteran movement: the Council of Veterans has been working for half a century, many former employees of ChEMK Center for Social Protection of Veterans have been providing financial assistance. The Council of Young Professionals also functions, youth undertakings are supported: professional skills contests, sports and leisure events are organized, social work is underway. As part of the consolidation of young personnel, the company’s management bought one hundred and two apartments for specialists.
Further development of ChEMK is associated with the expansion and consolidation of market positions. Strict control over the quality of raw materials and products, the use of advanced technological processes - these are the main components of success. And also people! Currently, the website of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant has posted detailed information about vacancies. New employees are offered promising employment, social guarantees and career opportunities.