Severstal to increase deliveries of hot dip galvanized rolled products to GAZ Group in 2012
3.07.2012
OAO Severstal, one of the world's leading vertically integrated steel and
steel-related mining companies, announces that the Cherepovets Steel Mill, one
of the world’s largest integrated steelmaking plants and part of the Severstal
Russian Steel division, plans to increase deliveries of hot dip galvanized
rolled products to GAZ Group, Russia's Largest Automotive Engineering
Holding, in 2012.
GAZ Group, one of the Cherepovets Steel Mill’s major clients, accounts for
more than 73% of its total deliveries of rolled products, and in excess of
100,000 tons were shipped to GAZ Group enterprises between July 2011 and May
2012.
Dmitry Goroshkov, Sales Director at the Cherepovets Steel Mill commented:
“The automobile industry is one our major focuses. We are hugely committed to
ensuring that we provide a full service to meet the needs of our clients such
as GAZ.”
Currently, ОАО GAZ uses the Cherepovets Steel Mill’s hot dip galvanized
rolled stock in the manufacturing of 56 parts of the Gazel-business underbody.
There are plans to increase the number of parts in the Gazel-business underbody
using Severstal’s metal for an even wider product range of vehicles in 2012.
Those include vehicles GAZel-NEXT and buses LIAZ , PAZ and GolAZ .
The Cherepovets Steel Mill is also exploring the possibility of supplying
its rolled high-strength steel grades for joint projects undertaken by ОАО GAZ
with its partners, including Volkswagen and General Motors, initially on a
trial basis. The trial was discussed at a meeting between GAZ Group and
Severstal held in Cherepovets. The companies’ representatives discussed
deliveries of metal products for exterior automotive parts, frames and wheel
disks initially over a five month period in 2012.
At the meeting, representatives of GAZ Group also commended the high quality
of the Cherepovets Steel Mill’s products and expressed their desire for a
long-term relationship between the companies.
ОАО Severstal is one of the world’s leading vertically
integrated steel and steel related mining companies, with assets in Russia, the
USA, the Ukraine, Latvia, Poland, Italy, Liberia and Brazil. Severstal is
listed on RTS and MICEX and the company’s GDRs are traded on the
LSE. Severstal reported revenue of $15,812 million and EBITDA of $3,584
million in 2011. Severstal’s crude steel production in 2011 reached 15.3
million tonnes. www.severstal.com
