The project cost is US$17.094 million. The modernization envisaged construction of facility for vacuuming liquid steel “on turnkey bases” with the capacity of 150,000 tonnes of liquid steel a year. Within the project, the facility of complex steel processing was also reconstructed.
Romania’s Adrem Invest supplied equipment within the project. The sum of contract with Adrem Invest was US$13.1 million.
The project was financed due to own resources of Uzmetkombinat for US$8.1 million and loan of the Ipoteka Bank for US$9 million.
The construction of the facility for vacuuming liquid steel was carried out within preparation to implementation of other project – launch of production of seamless hot-deformed steel pipes with the capacity of 100,000 tonnes a year. The project cost is US$240,000.