During the 10 months of participation in the federal Clean Air project, Severstal reduced its total emissions by 23% or 67.8 thousand tons from the level of 2017. Emissions of hazardous (priority) pollutants decreased by 20% or 11 thousand tons, the company said in a statement.
By this year, specialists have already implemented 22 events out of 26 planned for the amount of over 43 billion rubles. Since the beginning of the year, Severstal has been reconstructing two electric filters of the aspiration air purification system in sinter shop No. 3, repairing three combustion reactors in the chemical processing shop used for the disposal of ammonia vapor mixture.
The company is also engaged in the construction of a boiler room with boiler unit No. 11, implements projects for the post-stop period of overhaul of the blast furnace No. 5 "Severyanka". In addition, Severstal has launched a system for monitoring the quality of atmospheric air in Cherepovets using small-sized monitoring stations to assess the effectiveness of the measures being implemented. Thus, 9 stations provide continuous monitoring of air quality for major pollutants.
In addition, Severstal has begun to equip sources of emissions of hazardous (priority) pollutants with automatic control systems (ACS). The data will be transferred to Rosprirodnadzor.
Severstal is a vertically integrated mining and metallurgical company that creates new products and integrated solutions from steel together with customers and partners. The company's production assets are concentrated in Russia. The shares are traded on the Moscow Stock Exchange (ticker CHMF).
Severstal's net profit for the first half of 2024 decreased by 21% to 83.32 billion rubles from 105 billion rubles a year earlier. Revenue increased by 21% to 409.14 billion rubles from 339.43 billion rubles, EBITDA increased by 6% to 126.56 billion rubles from 119.26 billion rubles.
