Tula metal works has achieved yield of 10,000 tons a month

Tula metal works launched last year on the site of the old combine plant has achieved yield of 10,000 tons of hardware with diameter of 10-24 mm a month. The projected monthly capacity is 15,000 tons of minor sort steel. The technology of the enterprise presupposes hardware production of previously used rails.

The length of the national railway network is 120,000 km, and it bears 17 million tons of the metal. Annually, they are dismantled and sent for re-smelting 0.5 million tons from the Russian railways. The rails are heated up to 1,300 degrees, cut in strips and delivered to the rolling mill, N. Borzyonkov, the CEO of Combinemashstroy (the management company, says.