Blast-furnace production
The structure of the blast furnace technological process includes the following divisions:
- — stockyard and lower feed
- — coke feed
- — blast furnaces
- — casting machines
- — stockyard of cold iron
- — site for preparation of refractory materials and thermal compounds
- — granulating pool
- — slag-heap
The shop has three blast furnaces:
- — BF №1, useful volume is 1066 m3 (HD 7.2 m);
- — BF №2, useful volume is 462 m3 (HD 4.9 m);
- — BF №3, useful volume 740 m3 (HD 6.0 m)
The complex of each furnace includes: a slope bridge with an inclined skip hoist, a casting yard, a dust collecting system and a gas pipeline of dirty and clean gas.
Qualified staff and modern equipment allow JSC “KGIW” to produce foundry (State Standard 4832-95) and cast (State Standard 805-95) pig iron of all brands under existing international and Russian standards, including nodular, which is used in the smelting of critical parts in automotive and other high-tech industries, as well as ferromanganese (State Standard 4755-91).