Zirconium
We are pleased to offer you high quality zirconium products from Chepetsky Mechanical Plant (CMP).
- Zirconium production since 1958
- Production of 15 zirconium alloys, mainly for the nuclear industry
- Russia’s only and one of the world’s largest producers of zirconium with nuclear purity (low content of impurities and hafnium)
- CMP’s zirconium is used in 75 nuclear power plants in operation
- 18% of global zirconium production
- Complete production cycle from processing of zirconium concentrate to production of final products
- Products: bars, rod, tube, wire, sheet metal, powder
Main steps of zirconium production
- Production of sponge from ore concentrate
- Charge and pressing in electrodes for vacuum arc remelting (VAR) process
- Production of ingots by VAR; single, double or triple remelting
- hot forging
- hot extrusion
- cold rolling
- radial forging
