On May 24, 2018, Severstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and mining companies, announced that it began supplying construction elements for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facility made of cryogenic low-carbon steel with a nine-percent nickel content.

The products will be used in the construction of an LNG plant, which Gazprom is building at Portovaya in the Leningrad region. The first 60-ton product batch has already been delivered to the company’s client. As per its agreement, Severstal plans to supply approximately 700 tons of steel.

Severstal has begun producing innovative products as part of its import substitution program for construction materials, which is run in partnership with Gazprom. Cryogenic steel has high resistance to cold, retaining its plasticity and strength even at low temperatures.

The steel was produced by Mill 2800 at CherMK (part of Severstal’s Russian Steel division). It will also be possible to produce this type of metal at CherMK’s Mill 5000, located in Kolpino, St. Petersburg. Additional metal processing is carried out using high-tech equipment at the Kolpino Steel Service Center, where the metal undergoes blasting, priming, chamfering, and rolling.

Severstal’s head of marketing Dmitry Goroshkov said, “Severstal believes that close cooperation between producers will achieve effective import substitution, including in the development of the LNG market. Severstal’s facilities have the real potential to help support this opportunity. The company’s strategy today is focused both on supplying rolled steel and providing the company’s clients with complex solutions.”