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Rosatom presents metallurgical products at the REARMET 2024 exhibition

As part of the REARMET-2024 international scientific and practical conference, Rusatom Metal Tech LLC (an integrator company of Rosatom’s Fuel Company in the Metalurgy business area) presented a key product line of refractory, rare and rare-earth metals.

REARMET-2024 is the main platform to consolidate the scientific potential in the field of rare metals and to discuss a wide range of scientific and technological challenges from mineral processing to the development of new materials based on them.

At the exhibition, the visitors could see the products of Rusatom Metal Tech LLC: ingots, strips, bars, wires and powders made of tantalum, niobium, zirconium and hafnium, as well as magnets based on neodymium-iron-boron alloy for wind power and electric transportation.

Rusatom Metal Tech LLC is the only supplier of hafnium metal in Russia and provides 100% of Russian zirconium rolled products. The presence of a unique production base at the Chepetsky Mechanical Plant in Glazov (ChMP JSC, an enterprise of Rosatom’s Fuel Company) makes it possible to supply competitive products for high-tech companies from the aerospace, oil and chemical industries, the nuclear industry and machine building.

“Today it is almost impossible to imagine our life without technologies involving rare metals and their compounds. Now such industries as traditional and renewable energy, metallurgy and mechanical engineering, aviation and engine building, chemistry and electric propulsion have quite a serious impetus in their development due to the application of rare metals and compounds based on them. Thus, tantalum, niobium, hafnium, tungsten and molybdenum are used for production of superalloys which are used to make aviation rocket engines, wing bodies and edges. One cannot imagine communication systems without tantalum capacitors. They are responsible for reliable operation, so they are ideal for maintaining stability in communication networks and in a wide variety of electronic devices, from computers to televisions. Rusatom Metal Tech LLC supplies the market with sought-after products made of refractory and rare metals. At all stages of production, we strictly monitor the quality of manufacturing and compliance with specifications, GOSTs and customer requirements,” Andrey Andrianov, General Director of Rusatom Metal Tech LLC, said.

The conference participants discussed modern scientific and technological challenges in the field of processing rare metal mineral raw materials and obtaining critical materials and products based on rare metals. In total, the event was attended by more than 300 people, including world-renowned scientists and experts from 14 countries.
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The Fuel Company of Rosatom State Corporation (Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL) includes enterprises for fabrication of nuclear fuel, uranium conversion and enrichment, production of gas centrifuges, as well as research and development organizations. As the sole supplier of nuclear fuel for Russian NPPs, TVEL provides fuel for more than 70 power reactors in 15 countries, research reactors in nine countries, and transport reactors of the Russian nuclear fleet. Every sixth power reactor in the world is fueled by TVEL. Rosatom Fuel Company is the world’s largest producer of enriched uranium, as well as the leader of the global stable isotope market. The Fuel Company is actively developing new businesses in chemistry, metallurgy, energy storage technologies, 3D printing, digital products and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. Rosatom’s industry integrators for additive technologies and energy storage systems have been created within the TVEL Fuel Company circuit.
Rusatom Metallurgical Technologies LLC is a divisional integrator of Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL in the Metalurgy business. The tasks of the Fuel Company’s metallurgical business development include, in particular, expansion of the client base in Russia and worldwide, development of production capacities, creation of new alliances and partnerships. Technological partners of Rusatom Metallurgical Technologies LLC are enterprises specializing in the production of products from refractory and light metals, as well as alloys based on them. The integrator consolidates competencies of TVEL JSC enterprises in the field of metallurgy: ChMP JSC (Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant), AO MSZ (Machinery Manufacturing Plant), PAO NZHK (Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant), Elemash Magnet LLC, OOO NPO Centrotech, AO VNIINM. The scientific potential, technological skills and qualified personnel of the enterprises make it possible to launch mass production of new materials and promising product lines, as well as to respond promptly to the needs of leading industries and high-tech companies.
Since 2020, Rosatom has been engaged in phased localization of production of permanent rare-earth magnets of the neodymium-iron-boron system in the Fuel Company. The first REM magnets produced by Elemash Magnet LLC (part of Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL) were supplied to Rosatom’s wind power division, NovaWind JSC, to be used for power generators at the Karmalinovskaya Wind Farm in the Stavropol Krai.
Nowadays, Russia has all the necessary resources to create a chain of REM magnet production. In particular, Rosatom State Corporation is competent in all key links, including: raw material extraction (projects of the Mining Division); research base (institutes of Science and Innovations JSC); and existing and future production facilities of the Fuel Company. Additionally, the vertical chain stability is ensured by cooperation with the leaders of the rare-metal industry, in particular, the Solikamsk Magnesium Plant.
The Russian industry faces the goal of ensuring technological sovereignty and transition to the latest technologies as soon as possible. The state and large domestic companies allocate resources to accelerated development of the domestic research, infrastructure and scientific and technological base. The introduction of innovations and new high-tech equipment enables Rosatom and its enterprises to occupy new niches in the market, increasing the competitiveness of the nuclear industry and the Russian industry as a whole.
2024-04-05 10:00