AUSMELT – RUSSIA
July 1st, 2003
BY MARK ROWEAUSTRALIAN specialised technology firm Ausmelt has signed a US$9.5 million contract to provide its technology to modernise the Karabashmed copper smelter in Russia's Urals region. Work on an engineering design for a new Ausmelt furnace and an electric settling furnace will begin immediately and the new plant is set to commence operations in the second half of 2004. The company said that environmental considerations were the main impetus for the modernisation of the smelter in the Chelyabinsk region, which produces 40,000 metric tons of sulphur per ...
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