Mechel starts 100-meter rail supplies to Russian Railways

mechelMechel announced that supplies of 100-meter R65 DT-350 type rails to Russian Railways have begun. Mechel’s Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant has already shipped off the first 12,000-tonne batch to Russian Railways.
The rails are fully in compliance with Russian Railways’ requirements and were produced according to the certificate granted to Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant by Federal Railway Transport Certification Register in June 2015.
Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant supplies rails as part of a supplementary agreement to the 2008 strategic contract between the two companies. In 2016 supplies are due to amount to 150,000 tonnes. In particular, Russian Railways will use those rails for construction and reconstruction of North Caucasian and Kuibyshev railways.


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