KYIV, Feb 28 – Zaporizhstal metallurgical plant, one of Ukraine’s largest steelmakers, reduced natural gas consumption by 240 million cubic meters (mcm) in 2017 through 2019 via swap in secondary gases with Zaporizhkoks.

In 2016 Zaporizhstal modernized gas pipeline and gas equipment for supplying coke gas from Zaporizhkoks (investment is UAH 75 million). This allowed to use coke-domain and natural-domain mixtures by the rolling mills of the plant (crimping mill, hot-rolling thin sheet mill), and cogenerating systems as well. The economic effect for three years from the project implementation amounted to about UAH 1.4 billion.