Press release

From October 27 to November 11 of this year, a scheduled inspection was carried out by the Department of Ecology of the Karaganda Region (hereinafter referred to as the Department) in relation to the Converter Shop of JSC "Arcelor Mittal Temirtau".
During the audit, the Department found a number of violations, as well as revealed non-compliance with the previous preventive inspection of 19.12.2019. in terms of making changes to the draft standards of maximum permissible emissions (MPD), taking into account the size of the boundaries of the sanitary protection zone (SPZ) at 912 m. and obtaining a positive conclusion of the state environmental expertise, with a deadline of execution until 04/26/2020.
In the work of the converter shop, the inefficient work of capturing the exhaust gases of secondary gas purification was revealed. In addition, at the time of checking the mixer compartment of the converter shop, defects were visually identified when the aspiration systems captured the gases formed when draining cast iron into the mixing buckets. The entire volume of the generated flue gases enters the atmospheric air through the roof windows and transoms. The above points led to a violation of Article 207 of the Environmental Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 400 dated January 2, 2021.
In connection with the disagreement of ArcelorMittal Temirtau JSC with the detected violations, as well as for refusing to provide officials with the necessary materials for conducting an inspection, the Department drew up protocols on administrative responsibility for this enterprise under paragraph 1 of Article 331 of the Administrative Code and paragraph 1 of Article 462 of the Administrative Code. All administrative materials were sent to the "Specialized Court for Administrative Offenses of the city of Temirtau".