Mechel OAO installs new equipment at Southern Urals Nickel Plant OAO subsidiary
Fri. September 19, 2008; Posted: 09:02 AM
Sep 19, 2008 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) --
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PowerRating -- Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), a Russian mining and metals company, said on 18
September that it has upgraded the machine tool equipment base at its
Southern Urals Nickel Plant OAO subsidiary with the installation of a
new large lathe RT-117-5, valued at approximately RUR6.0m, in the
Casting and Mechanical Workshop.
The company stated that the universal lathe is mostly designed to
manufacture and renovate shafts of up to five meters in length and
crane wheels, process the rotors of sinter machines, and manufacture
sinter cutting knives.
The workshop also plans to replace its Skoda boring machine and its
vertical milling machine.
The company has purchased an 8-tonne telpher and a sling testing jig
for the Casting and Mechanical Workshop, in line with the plant's
programme to upgrade the equipment in its auxiliary shops.
Mechel OAO said that it will invest approximately USD350.0m in capital
expenditure for the development of its Southern Urals Nickel Plant OAO
subsidiary until 2012.
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