The Kazakh alloy was obtained in Pavlodar

A workshop for the production of ferrosilicoaluminium, which was the result of scientific developments by leading Kazakhstani scientists in the field of metallurgy, was put into operation in Pavlodar's KSPSteel LLP. The opening ceremony was attended by Akim of the region Yerlan Aryn, the leadership of the republican state-owned enterprise "National Center for Integrated Processing of Mineral Raw Materials of the Republic of Kazakhstan" and the South Korean company Posco.

The launch of the first industrial furnace for smelting ferrosilicon aluminum, which is patented as a "Kazakh alloy", was given by the head of the region, as well as the first heads of the two companies, who then signed a memorandum of cooperation. This industrial and innovative project to produce 30 thousand tons of ferrosilicon aluminum per year cost KSPSteel LLP eight billion tenge. The project will create 350 jobs at the plant. During the production of the alloy, the dumps of the Ekibastuz coal mines will be used.

"Modern methods of obtaining new products created by Kazakhstani scientists are used here. Ferrosilicoaluminium is in demand in the global metallurgy industry," said Yerlan Aryn. Director General of the National Center for Integrated Processing of Mineral Raw Materials of Kazakhstan, Academician Abdurasul Zharmenov noted that the opening of a new production facility is the result of the state's return on science after investments made in it. After signing the memorandum with Posco, A. Zharmenov said: "The South Korean company will build the first plant for the production of ferrosilicon aluminum using Kazakh technology with a capacity of 200,000 tons per year in Kyrgyzstan. The second enterprise is planned to be built with Kazakhstan's participation in Brazil.: Posco is a large company with an annual turnover of $80 billion. We will work not only on the new alloy, but also on other innovative areas."

According to him, the appearance of ferrosilicoaluminium is the result of thirty years of work by scientists of the Karaganda Chemical and Metallurgical Institute, part of the National Center for Integrated Processing of Mineral Raw Materials of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Our foreign metallurgist colleagues call this material revolutionary. When new materials appear, the need for them is usually 50-100 thousand tons per year due to the specificity of their use. The demand for ferrosilicon aluminum in the world immediately amounted to several million tons.

– When in 1996 I reported to the President that we were developing the material needed to remove oxygen from steel, Nursultan Abishevich studied the work and suggested including alloying additives to improve the quality of the metal. The President of the country became one of the five authors of the Kazakhstan alloy," said Abdurasul Zharmenov.

The new workshop will mainly produce steel billets, rolled, casing, and oil pipeline pipes. The production capacity of the enterprise is 800 thousand tons of steel billets and 270 thousand tons of steel pipes annually.

Source: www.irstar.kz "The Star of the Irtysh region"