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VMK Red October

operating

Krasnyi Oktyabr' Corporation JSC · EAF route · Volgograd, Eurasia, Russia

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VMK Red October is a scrap-based steel plant: an electric arc furnace melts recycled steel scrap into new crude steel. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of 501 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are ingot, sheet, sections, bloom, billet, round bar, hot rolled.

Process Route

EAF

Timeline

Operating since 1898

Emissions

2025

0.027 Mt CO₂e

0.08 t CO₂e per tonne of steel

Typical EAF route: 0.5–0.7 t/t

Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology

Capacity (ttpa)

Crude Steel

501

EAF

501

Production

Crude steelproduction, GEM-compiled (Global Iron & Steel Tracker). Dashed line shows nominal capacity.

Steel Units

EAF
EAF 1operating
188 ttpa130 twiki
EAF
EAF 2operating
188 ttpa130 twiki
EAF
EAF 3operating
125 ttpawiki

Steel Products

ingot, sheet, sections, bloom, billet, round bar, hot rolled

Ownership

Owner Krasnyi Oktyabr' Corporation JSC

Parent RSL Group JSC

Workforce 4,300 employees

Country Context

Russia crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.

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Plant data sourced from the Global Iron & Steel Tracker (March 2026), Global Energy Monitor. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Production data: USGS Minerals Yearbook — Raw Steel: World Production by Country or Locality (2019 edition; 2022 and 2023 early release tables). U.S. Geological Survey, public domain. EAF/BOF splits: USGS Minerals Yearbook (2023 estimates).

Facility emissions estimates from Climate TRACE. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.