Post Congress Technical Tour 2

Tikhvin Ferrochrome Plant, Russia

If you are interested in participating the post congress tour to Tikhvin Ferrochrome Plant near St Petersburg, Russia, please contact the travel agency Futurist for more information and reservations. E-mail: gateway@futurist.fi, phone: +358 207 689 900

Dates: Wednesday-Friday, June 9-11

Places to visit:

Tikhvin Ferrochrome Plant (Oriel Resources Ltd owned by Mechel OAO, Russia)

Tourism in St. Petersburg

Dinner à la Russia with folklore show

Friday am: Optional guided visit to the Mining Museum of the St. Petersburg State Mining Institute (Technical Univeristy) - Visit included in the tour price

Prices: € 445,00 per person in a double/twin room (minimum group size 50 persons)

€ 220,00 supplement for single occupancy (2 nights)

Price includes the train ticket from Helsinki to St. Petersburg, accommodation (2 nights), buffet breakfast, transportations, meals and visits according to the programme.

€ 490,00 per person - Ladies programme (minimum group size 15 persons)

Ladies programme include a guided visit to the world-know Hermitage Art Museum, lunch and time for shopping.

€ 90,00 per person - Additional programme on June 11 - Visit to Katarina´s Palace in Pushkin and lunch

€ 90,00 per person - Bus transfer from hotel to railway station and return train ticket from St. Petersburg to Helsinki (minimum group size 10 persons).

Tikhvin Smelting Plant, Russia

The Tikhvin Smelting Plant is situated in the small town of Tikhvin, 200km south east of St. Petersburg, Russia. The smelter site is located in an industrial sanitation zone on the outskirts of the town, adjacent to an existing industrial complex. It is designed to receive and smelt chrome ore from the Voskhod mine in Kazakhstan into high carbon ferrochrome for use predominantly in the stainless steel industry. The other raw materials used in the ferrochrome smelting process are metallurgical coke as a reductant and a quartzite flux. The plant comprises four 22.5 MVA semi-closed SAF`s.