VMK Red October
operatingKrasnyi Oktyabr' Corporation JSC · EAF route · Volgograd, Eurasia, Russia
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
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
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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Location
Volgograd
Eurasia
Russia
48.7540°, 44.5610°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 501 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1898
- Products
- Crude, semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded