17.9.2007
OSTRAVA 17.9.2007 - EVRAZ VÍTKOVICE STEEL Company has acquired an approbation MQS from Lloyd's Register Group. This certificate was awarded to her as 6th plate rolling mill plant and as 14th company in Europe in total. This approbation holds only 28 companies all over the world. The company acquired a certificate in the field of production and supply of ship plate. The process of approbation by Lloyd’s Register Group took 5 months and there is a hard and precise work behind it; work of quality management personnel as well as production personnel.
“There are three acceptance experts trained and authorized currently in the company – employees of Evraz Vitkovice Steel that represent acceptance companies,” informs company’s general director Ing. Vladimír Bail, Ph.D. The certificate represents a possibility to accept plate from collecting samples for individual tests, including carrying out tests and confirming test results in laboratory, physical acceptance of plates in treatment plants, release of plates on the basis of conforming to physical-chemical properties and physical acceptance, up to final dispatch and attestation of ship plates. “For our company the acquirement of this certificate means improvement and acceleration of acceptance procedures of steel plates that are after the certification much more operative,” further says Ing. Vladimír Bail, Ph.D.
Similar approbation, authorization respectively, has EVRAZ VÍTKOVICE STEEL also with companies RINA (Italy), RMLR (Russia). With companies BUREAU VERITAS (France) and DET NORSKE VERITAS (Norway), the process currently waits for the final approval and certification issuance on the basis of successful approbation audits carried out by these companies.
Certificate in pdf
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EVRAZ VITKOVICE STEEL concentrates on the production of steel and steel products – heavy plates, heavy and medium sections, and flame-cut shapes from heavy plates. The company aims to continue increasing the sales of its products with high added value, such as deliveries of plates for pipelines. Thanks to the important support of the Evraz Group and its strong position on the Russian steel market the company has also successfully entered the Russian market of the pipeline industry. In the sphere of plates EVRAZ VITKOVICE STEEL is the main European manufacturer and the dominant manufacturer in the Czech Republic. The most important product of Heavy section rolling mill is sheet piles which represents a 65 % share of the mill’s production. The company is the sole manufacturer of this product on the domestic market and holds a 90% market share.
Evraz Group S.A. is one of the largest vertically-integrated steel and mining businesses. In 2006, Evraz Group produced 16.1 million tonnes of crude steel. Evraz Group’s principal assets include three of the leading steel plants in Russia: Nizhny Tagil (NTMK) in the Urals region and West Siberian (Zapsib) and Novokuznetsk (NKMK) in Siberia, as well as Palini e Bertoli in Italy, Vitkovice Steel in the Czech Republic, and Evraz Oregon Steel Mills headquartered in the USA. Its fast-growing mining businesses comprise Evrazruda, the Kachkanarsky (KGOK) and Vysokogorsky (VGOK) iron ore mining complexes and equity interests in the Raspadskaya and Yuzhkuzbassugol coal companies. The mining assets enable Evraz Group to be a vertically integrated steel producer. Evraz Group also owns and operates the Nakhodka commercial sea port, in the Far East of Russia, which facilitates its access to Asian export markets. Evraz vanadium operations comprise Strategic Minerals Corporation, USA, and a 54.1% equity interest in Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation, South Africa.
For further information visit www.evraz.com
