Production Sites

Southern Cuzbass Coal Company is one of Russia’s largest producers of coking and steam coal. Southern Cuzbass plants use both domestic and foreign mining and conveying equipment. The company has considerable volumes of recoverable reserves in the region (including a substantial percentage of coking-grade coal) and promising coal deposits.

located in Eastern Siberia, extracts predominantly coking coal, as well as steam coal. Annual coal production volume of the company totals at a level of about 10 billion tons. Coal reserves of Yakutugol estimated according to the Russian standards amount to approximately 200 million tons. The company is the largest Russian exporter of hard cocking coal and sells the major part of its production to the countries of Asia-Pacific Region: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

The company Mechel Bluestone is located in the West Virginia state, USA. Mechel Bluestone produces high quality coking coal. The company’s coking coal holdings in West Virginia include up to an estimated 725 million tonnes of reserves and resources.The vast majority is premium quality, low volatility hard coking coal suitable for sale to steel producers. Mechel Bluestone’s customer base is well-diversified and includes the world’s top coke and steel producers. The company services a multi-national customer base.

Korshunov Mining Plant is an industrial complex engaged in the mining and milling of iron ore. The company’s raw materials base includes the Korshunov, Rudnogorsk, and Tatyanino iron ore deposites. The company uses both domestic and foreign mining and conveying equipment.

located in Eastern Siberia, extracts predominantly coking coal, as well as steam coal. Annual coal production volume of the company totals at a level of about 10 billion tons. Coal reserves of Yakutugol estimated according to the Russian standards amount to approximately 200 million tons. The company is the largest Russian exporter of hard cocking coal and sells the major part of its production to the countries of Asia-Pacific Region: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant is a full-cycle steel plant. The plant has a diverse range of products: coke, pig iron, rolled steel, semifinished rolled products in carbin and specialty steels, and forged billets. Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant is certified under the ISO 9001:2000 international standard. It is one of the few Russian companies entitled to assign its own code — ChS (for Chelyabinsk Steel) — to its products. The plant manufactures more than 130 grades of this steel indicating proven quality.

Izhstal produces rolled and calibrated bars from constructional, constructional alloyed, tool, and high-speed steel grades; jewel steel, stainless welding wire, high precision shaped profiles, cold-rolled and flattened strips, stampings, and forgings. It is equipped with vacuum-arch and plasma-arc remelting furnaces and has a press shop. Izhstal is certified under the ISO 9001:2000 international standard and under the AD WO/TRD 100 standard for hot-rolled products.

Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant produces wire rods and wide range of hardware items made from semifinished steel products supplies by Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant. The plant also makes micriwire, ribbon from various stainless and precision alloys. Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant os cergified under the ISO 9001:2000 international standard.

is Russia’s largest producer of stampings from various steels and alloys. The plant is one of the leading manufactures of rough axles for locomotive rolling stock, and is a leader in production of stampings of more than 1000 weight. A unique ring rolling mill is commissioned at the plant. Urals Stampings Plant is certified under ISO 9001:2000 international standard. In addition, the American Association of Railroads (AAR) and the IAC Aviation Register have provided annual confirmations of the company’s production quality.

Moscow Coke and Gas Plant located in th central region of Russia, boasts economically advantageous geographical location and stable sales markets. Products are successfully sold domestically, mainly to Russia’s central region manufacturers, as well as shipped abroad, in particular to Ukraine and European Union countries. Moskoks’ competitive advantage is self-suffciency in electricity, with is produced by its own power plant with a capacity of 30 MW.

Vyartsilya Metallurgical Plant produces hardware items from wire rod supplied by Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, including low-carbon, electrode and structural wire, galvanized nails, and steel mesh with polymer coatings. The plant is currently Russia's only producer of hot-dip galvanized nails.

Southern Urals Nickel Plant is a major Russian producer of nickel and nickel compounds. In making its products, the plant uses nickel ore mined from its own deposits located in the Sakhara and Buruktal mines. Mechel Stell Group uses the plant’s products in its own metallurgical production and in its exports.

is the largest enterprise in Eastern Siberia producing high-grade ferrosilicon. It was created on the bases of the crystal silicon production facility in 2003. It has a favorable geographical position and stable sales markets. The plant’s output in 2008 is planned at a level of 89.6 thousand tonnes which is about 14% of the Russian market.

manufactures ferrochrome. It processes chrome concentrate produced by the mining plant at Voskhod chrome deposit in Kazakhstan. The plant's projected capacity for ferrochrome production amounts to 140 thousand tons per year.

It has a total installed capacity of 554 MW and installed heat capacity of 560 Gcal/h as of January, 1, 2007. The Southern Kuzbass Power Plant uses steam coal as fuel, which is steadily supplied to it from local sources, including our Southern Kuzbass Coal Company. Another cost advantage of this coal-fired plant is its proximity to the Southern Kuzbass coal mines, resulting in reduced fuel transportation costs. The plant is situated close to its main consumers such as largest power-consuming metallurgical plants and electric public utility system of Southern Kuzbass which together provide constant demand for electricity produced by the Plant.

The «Rousse» power plant is located at the bank of Danube River, in close proximity to the harbor of Rousse. The installed electric power potential capacity of the «Rousse» plant’s generators is 400 MW and it has total heat capacity of 35 Gcal/h

Trade Port Posiet a seaport that provides trans-shipment of various bulk cargoes and coal. Posiet’s advantageous geographical location on the Sea of Japan (south of Vladivostok on Russia’s border with China and North Korea), its connection to the Trans-Siberian Railway trunk line, and the existence of car and rail routes linking the three countries combine to create optimal conditions for the shioment of Mechel Steel Group’s products to the Asia-Pacific region. The port can service ships with a cargo capacity of up to 25,000 tonnes year round.

is a trading sea port which is primarily used for coal transshipment. Competitive advantages of the port are mainly connected with its proximity to naval communications, year-round navigation, railroad and motor road presence. The current depth of the port allows for utilization of river-sea type vessels with displacement up to 5,000 tonnes which meet the requirements of the Black and Mediterranean Seas and internal river ways of the Eastern Europe.

Port Kambarka is one of Russia’s largest river ports. The facility specializes in the transshipment of bulk cargo, including iron ore concentrate and coal. Due to its significant depth and favorable location near the Gorkov railway, the post is capable of processing «river-sea» class cargo ships, routing both within Russia and European countries, particularly Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Great Britain through the Baltic and North Seas.

Mechel Targoviste is Romania’s largest metallurgical plant. It produces rolled products in carbon and alloy steels and forged and calibrates products for machinery and automobile manufacturers, the construction industry, as well as the hardware, bearing, and pipe industries. The company’s quality management system is compliant with the ISO 9001:2000 international standard.

Mechel Campia Turzii is a metallurgical company that produces rolled products in carbon and low-alloy steels for machinery manufacturers, as well as steel rebar, wire rod and hardware, including various kinds of wire, cable, mesh, electrical cable, and nails. Mechel Campia Turzii is certified under the ISO 9001:2000 international standard. In May 2002, the plant received the ISO 14001 environmental certification.

is a plant producing long products and hardware from carbon and low-alloy steel.

produces steel and billets which is delivered for further processing to the Ductil Steel Buzau plant as well as to third parties on the Romanian market and abroad.

Mehcel Nemunas is a metallurgical plant specializing in hardware manufacturing. Its products range includes wire, calibrated steel items, nails, wire rod, and nets. Much of its output is sold to consumers in the European Union.