Forgemasters secures major Russian deal
22 Jan 2013
Sheffield Forgemasters has won a £3m contract with Russia’s largest steel company, Severstal
The deal is for a range of work and back-up rolls which will be supplied to the Russian steel giant’s plant in Cherepovets, Northwestern Russia.
The finished components, which can weigh up to 35 tonnes, will be used in cold rolling mills to roll steel sheets for domestic use such as car manufacturing and white goods.
Ken Brooks, senior sales manager at Forgemasters, said: “This contract forms part of a three year development of business between Sheffield Forgemasters International Limited and Severstal which is worth £15.5m in total.”
The rolls will be produced using specialist techniques including forging each steel ingot and heat treatment – a process that exposes the rolls to temperatures from +940 degrees to -40 degrees to create highly specific hardness properties.
The rolls will then be machine finished to within 0.05mm using computer controlled machine tools.
Severstal employs around 70,000 people and has assets in Russia, USA, the Ukraine, Latvia, Poland, Italy and Liberia as well as investments in Brazil.
