EVRAZ ZSMK Ships 60E1 Euro Profile Rails for Metro in Mexico City

EVRAZ’s structural steel facility EVRAZ ZSMK, a Metal-Expo exhibitor, has produced and dispatched 1.3 thousand tonnes of 60E1 Euro profile rails for the Mexico City metro. This is the first rail delivery to Mexico.

EVRAZ ZSMK has produced and dispatched 1.3 thousand tonnes of 60E1 Euro profile rails for the Mexico City metro. This is the first rail delivery to Mexico. The plant continues to produce 136 RE10 profile for the Brazilian company RUMO ALL according to the American AREMA standard. In November, the rail and structural shop rolled 7.8 thousand tons of these rails. The customer was TSO NGE Mexico, which specializes in the construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of railways.

Since the beginning of the year, EVRAZ ZSMK has shipped more than 22 thousand tons of products to non-CIS countries. These are 60E1 rails from different steel grades for Brazil, India, Malaysia and Taiwan, as well as 54E1 and UIC54 rails for Egypt.

West-Siberian Metal Plant is a steel plant in the city of Novokuznetsk in Kemerovo Oblast in south-western Siberia, founded on 27 July 1964. The West-Siberian Metallurgical Plant is owned and operated by Evraz. The company's name is abbreviated to ZSMK. It is one of the largest smelters in the Siberian region and the fifth-largest metallurgical plant in Russia.