Recycling and by-product production
Sate-of-the-art technologies for recycling of secondary resources as well as various recycling initiatives enable efficient use of secondary resources. In 2023, the share of Fe-containing recyclable materials processed by NLMK Group businesses, excluding mining waste, totalled 100%.
Over the past 20 years, specific waste generation across the Group as a whole has decreased by a factor of 7 while production has doubled.
Secondary resource recycling across NLMK Group, %
NLMK Group operates its own scrap collection and processing facilities that advance the circular economy vision. It recycles scrap, captured dust, and sludges. Construction materials are made from such by-products as slag, chalk crushed concrete, etc.
NLMK Group
2020–2023
MOULDING
Technical upgrade of moulding sand preparation area, Shape Casting Shop
NLMK
Extracting zinc from BOF sludge
NLMK
Pyrolysis of waste polymers, paper and rubber
NLMK
Sorting and processing construction waste
NLMK Lipetsk
2017-2020 гг.
2019-2020
Slag dump processing
350
kt
of scrap was recycled into production
800
kt
of sludge was recycled into production
2019
Metallurgical briquette production
- Production of blast furnace charge from industrial waste (BF shops and Coke Plant).
- Full recycling of all newly generated ferrum-containing waste
450
kt
of secondary resources recycled into production
2017
Crusher for wooden waste
- Use of generated wood chips in the ferroalloy shop process
- No purchasing wood for the production of chips
100%
Processing of wooden waste with metallic inclusions