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Strategic directions
NLMK is increasing operational efficiency and reducing its environmental impact by means of implementing energy-saving technologies, ensuring self-sufficiency in energy resources and using by-products of steelmaking operations for energy generation. These steps are part of a key Strategy 2022 objective to gain leadership in operational efficiency.
The Group is advancing towards its objectives in improving energy efficiency via the following key elements:
- Continuous operational improvement to reduce energy consumption
- Process and equipment upgrade, introduction of new technologies
- Improving energy resource management systems
- Complying with the laws regulating resource consumption
The Company is currently undergoing its next stage of development. Strategic energy sector development projects leading up to 2022 aim to increase the share of captive electricity generation, maximize the use of secondary metallurgical gases and reduce operating costs in the energy sector.
The main lines of action to boost energy efficiency in 2021 and the medium term include:
- Improving the efficiency of power-generating equipment
- Optimizing process charts for the production of technical gases
- Improving the efficiency of compressor equipment
- Replacing pumping equipment with more energy-efficient units
- Lighting system upgrades
- Reducing the amount of purchased thermal energy
- Developing and introducing innovative energy solutions
- Increasing the cost-efficiency of energy facilities by outsourcing processes
- Implementing investment projects for infrastructure development, technical upgrades/construction of facilities with improved energy efficiency performance