Metalloinvest invests in an environmental program

Metalloinvest approved the Environmental Program for 2020-2025. The program provides for more than 21 billion rubles of investments in a set of technological and environmental measures with direct environmental impact at all production sites of Metalloinvest. 70% of the program budget will be allocated to the Clean Air project aimed at improving air quality.

Along with the implementation of the flagship project, the Environmental Program envisages the following projects: "Green steel production /implementation and achievement of BAT", "Clean water", "Zero waste", "Clean land", "Biodiversity and protected areas", "Environmental monitoring" , "Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions", "Recycling /efficient use of resources", "Development of R&D to reduce environmental impact", "Improving the environment in the regions of presence", "Environmental culture, education, training Personnel", "Environmental management ".

The main objectives of the Environmental Program by 2025 are:
reduction of air emissions by 7%;
Complete transition of Mikhailovsky GOK and OEMK to a closed water recycling system - elimination of wastewater discharge into water bodies;
Gradual transition of Lebedinsky GOK to a closed water recycling system - reducing wastewater discharge by 50% (Ural Steel operates a closed water recycling system, which excludes wastewater discharges);
100% processing of technological waste and materials (excluding overburden and tailings of Lebedinsky GOK and Mikhailovsky GOK);
33% reduction in overburden formation at Lebedinsky and Mikhailovsky GOKs as a result of the construction of conveyor structures;
Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 1 million tons (in CO2 equivalent) from consumers of Metalloinvest's iron ore. The objectives of the program will be clarified based on the results of an independent environmental audit in 2020

... The implementation of the Environmental Program will reduce:
specific emissions of harmful gases in the production of pellets;
Specific emissions from iron ore beneficiation;
Water consumption from surface sources;
The volume of production and disposal of technological waste.

The program plans to:
modernization of gas treatment facilities at the pellet plant of Lebedinsky GOK;
Technical re-equipment of gas cleaning drums of the crushing and conveyor complex of Mikhailovsky GOK;
Reconstruction and development of gas treatment facilities at Ural Steel;
Modernization and development of recycling water supply systems at Lebedinsky GOK, Mikhailovsky GOK and OEMK;
Construction of additional treatment facilities at Lebedinsky GOK;
Other projects.