OREANDA-NEWS. On July 08, 2008 Metalloinvest Holding signed a contract with AvtoVAZ to double supplies of metal production from Oskol electrometallurgical plant in July, 2008, reported the press-centre of Metalloinvest.

OEMK and AvtoVAZ are long-termed partners. The first pilot batch was shipped to that large Russian automobile manufacturer in November, 1998. OEMK supplies AvtoVAZ with hot-rolled products of carbon and alloy steels, nickel-alloyed steels, spring steels and steels for higher machinability by cutting with a special surface quality and size tolerances. In 2007 OEMK delivered to AvtoVAZ 21 thousand tons of rolled metal products.

Metalloinvest Holding is a leader in the manufacture and supply of steel to major motor vehicles companies. OEMK is one of the most up-to-date and highly profitable integrated iron-and-steel works of Russia with DRI technology. This technology enables to get high-quality metal thus providing the unique consumer properties and steady market demand.  

OEMK supplies with bar iron the largest international automobile manufactures as Ford, Volkswagen and General Motors. The main OEMK consumers at the Russian market are such enterprises as “AvtoVAZ”, “KAMAZ-metallurgy”, “Minsk automobile plant”, “GAZ” and “Ural”. 

The high quality of steel produced by OEMK is proved by various certificates including ISO/TS 16949 which is a “must have” for any steel supplier to the international automobile industry. This certificate was issued for the mill in 2004 by the international certification body TUV CERT.