Rustavi Metallurgical Plant’s slag and scrap reprocessing workshop is located on the area of plant’s slag dump that covers hundreds of hectares and current capacity of the slag dump is 8 million tonnes.
The slag dump stores “open-hearth” and “blast-furnace” slag. Magnetic separation of the two produces masses of ferrous metals containing 70 per cent iron. These masses are actively used during the steel melting process.
“Open-hearth” slag is used in road construction. The highest quality of “blast-furnace” slag is used in the production of construction blocks and clinker and for various other construction purposes, whereas lower-quality granulated slag is used for the production of cement.
More specifically, the Plant offers its customers the following types of slag:
Every month, the Plant produces around 130,000 tonnes of slag, of which 100,000 are tonnes of “open-hearth” slag and 30,000 are “blast-furnace” slag.
