OJSC Nizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel Works (, Nizhnetagilsky Metallurgichecky Kombinat) is a Russian

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manufacturer. It is part of the Evraz Group. Its name is abbreviated as NTMK () or Nikom and NTMK is listed in RTS Index.

History

The company is located in the

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, in the city of Nizhniy Tagil, in

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. The city has been a steel-making center for centuries, and the company's website boasts a long historical association with the industry. Large-scale steel manufacture began in 1725, at the end of the reign of

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. At this time in the town's history, half of the output was exported to

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. In 1992 NTMK underwent

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and was organized into a joint-stock company.

Operational details

The city is convenient to the

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- Perm railway and through the

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to the

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. The

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stock in the Nizhniy Tagil region is vanadium-rich. The company has pioneered the blast oxygen process of steelmaking and according to its website, it has the world's largest H-beam manufacturing facility. NTMK specializes in manufacturing

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, train wheels and train

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External links

Nizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel WorksEvraz GroupNizhniy Tagil Steel Fabricating Plant, photograph of a bird's-eye perspective drawing, Albert Kahn Associates, 1930s
Canadian Centre for Architecture Evraz Steel companies of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Companies based in Sverdlovsk Oblast Companies formerly listed on the Moscow Exchange Nizhny Tagil Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Sverdlovsk Oblast {{Russia-company-stub