In the LPR, the electrode mass workshop was launched after a 10-year break at the ferroalloy plant
In 2014, due to shelling, the plant was shut down in an emergency
LUGANSK, April 8. /TASS/. The Stakhanov Ferroalloy Plant, operating in the Lugansk People’s Republic, launched the electrode mass workshop after 10 years of downtime. This was reported in the Telegram channel of the Southern Mining and Metallurgical Complex, which includes the plant.
“The electrode mass workshop was launched at the Stakhanov Ferroalloy Plant. The workshop equipment was idle for almost 10 years and has now been put back into operation,” the report says.
The company clarified that the electrode mass is a mixture of materials intended for the production of continuous self-baking electrodes, electric arc melting furnaces used in the production of ferroalloys.
The Stakhanov Ferroalloy Plant was launched in 1962 and during the Soviet era produced a significant portion of all ferrosilicon in the USSR. Ferrosilicon is an alloy of iron and silicon, it improves the quality of steel, so it is often used in the manufacture of spring materials. In 2014, due to shelling, the plant was shut down in an emergency, its territory was severely damaged. In 2022, after several years of downtime, two furnaces were launched one after another, now the plant is operating, supplying its products to other metallurgical enterprises.
Yuzhny Mining and Metallurgical Complex LLC is a vertically oriented organization that carries out external management over large metallurgical, chemical and mining enterprises of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. The organization began operations in October 2021.