Open Joint-Stock Company Altai-Koks is one of the largest Russian producers of coke and by-products. It produces coke and a wide range of chemical products. The company has a 13% share of overall Russian coke production.

Geography & History

The production site of OJSC Altai-Koks is located in

Zarinsk Zarinsk (russian: Заринск) is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the Chumysh River east of Barnaul. Population: History The railway station of Zarinskaya () was established in 1952. It was granted urban-type settlement status in 19 ...

Altai Krai Altai Krai (russian: Алта́йский край, r=Altaysky kray, p=ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan Region and Pavlodar ...

. The project to build the Altai coke and by-product plant was approved in 1971. In 1981, the first batch of coke was produced by coke battery No.1. Altai-Koks was incorporated as an Open Joint-Stock Company in 1993. In 2006 the Company became a part of

Novolipetsk Steel Novolipetsk Steel, or NLMK, is one of the four largest steel companies in Russia. NLMK's share of domestic crude steel production is about 21%. It primarily produces flat steel products, semi-finished steel products and electrical steels. NLMK a ...

Products

The Company processes

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dea ...

extracted from the

Kuznetsk Basin The Kuznetsk Basin (russian: Кузнецкий угольный бассейн, Кузбасс; often abbreviated as Kuzbass or Kuzbas) in southwestern Siberia, Russia, is one of the largest coal mining areas in Russia, covering an area of aroun ...

and has capacities to produce coke qualities for different applications and several kinds of chemical products. The main kinds of products are blast-furnace coke, foundry coke, coke nut and coke breeze. Chemicals production share in overall 2005 production results of the company was 8%. OJSC Altai-Koks supplies

ammonium sulfate Ammonium sulfate (American English and international scientific usage; ammonium sulphate in British English); (NH4)2SO4, is an inorganic salt with a number of commercial uses. The most common use is as a soil fertilizer. It contains 21% nitrogen a ...

-tar pitch,

anthracene Anthracene is a solid polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) of formula C14H10, consisting of three fused benzene rings. It is a component of coal tar. Anthracene is used in the Economic production, production of the red dye alizarin and other dyes ...

naphthalene Naphthalene is an organic compound with formula . It is the simplest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, and is a white crystalline solid with a characteristic odor that is detectable at concentrations as low as 0.08 ppm by mass. As an aromati ...

, absorbing and phenol fraction as well as crude

benzole In the United Kingdom, benzole or benzol is a coal-tar product consisting mainly of benzene and toluene. It was originally used as a 'motor spirit', as was petroleum spirits. Benzole was also blended with petrol and sold as a motor fuel under trad ...

Production

In 2006 the fifth coke battery with annual coke production capacity of 1.14 million tonnes was commissioned. The new coke battery includes more powerful ovens producing coke of the highest quality. Upon commissioning of the fifth coke battery, the aggregate annual output reaches as much as 5 million tonnes of coke.

Corporate responsibility

OJSC Altai-Koks is a town-forming company and one of the largest employers and taxpayers in the Altai region. The company employs approximately 5,500 people.

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External links

Official website
Chemical companies of Russia Chemical companies established in 1971 Companies based in Altai Krai NLMK Group Chemical companies of the Soviet Union 1971 establishments in Russia