OREANDA-NEWS. Azovstal Iron and Steel Works has supplied over 1,000 tons of R-34 rails to the Ukrainian market and received its first order for export. This type of rails is widely used in the construction of narrow gauge railway tracks at objects under construction and mining enterprises.

Azovstal I&SW is mass producing R-34 rails, which it mastered in September 2014. Metinvest's products have the following advantage: its boltholes for rail fastening are manufactured directly at the mill. Previously, the customers had to do them at their sites via flame cutting.

DTEK's mining enterprises located in Ukraine were the first customers of these products. R-34 rails were used to construct and repair rail track for lifting loaded railcars from the mine to the surface. DTEK has purchased over 1,000 tons of these rails since September 2014.

The first export order of 60 tons received by Metinvest will be manufactured in February. The customer is a mining company from in the CIS.

Dmitry Nikolaenko, sales director of Metinvest Group

"Metinvest continues to master products with high added value that are in demand in Ukraine and abroad. This is important for us that we launched regular supplies of new type of mine rails to the largest company in Ukraine's mining sector. At the next stage, we are planning to setup partnerships with customers in Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland and Bulgaria."