Severstal has signed a four-month contract to deliver rolled steel to Renault-Nissan from March to June 2015. Steel produced at the Cherepovets Steel Mill will be used in car production at the Moscow and Tolyatti plants of Renault-Nissan and AVTOVAZ Alliance. Severstal will meet 83% of the demand from its two factories in Russia.
Severstal’s Cherepovets Steel Mill (CherMK) also continues to supply steel to GM Uzbekistan for production Daewoo and Chevrolet cars under a one-year contract that began in January 2015. Severstal is GM Uzbekistan’s primary supplier of rolled steel. In 2014, the company supplied more than 60% of GM Uzbekistan’s steel consumption.
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Dmitriy Gorshkov, head of Sales and Marketing at Severstal Russian Steel, said: “This year, CherMK is implementing an investment project to renovate a four-stand cold rolling mill to ensure that we continue to meet and exceed automakers’ requirements and demands. This will enable us to produce rolled steel of greater width which will optimise the steel sheet for the car part production process.”
Severstal has one of the largest product ranges for the automotive industry in Russia including cold-rolled, hot-rolled and hot-rolled pickled steel, more than 50 grades of galvanised sheet metal as well as unique products such as high strength cold rolled steels, bake hardening steels (BH) and dual-phase steels.
