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Vanadium is an efficient strengthener of steel used in construction, transportation, pipelines, and other applications where higher strength and lower weight are important. It also significantly improves the strength of titanium alloys used in critical aircraft and aerospace applications. Vanadium chemicals are also key ingredients in the production of chemicals and synthetic-rubber. And vanadium electrolytes may soon help utilities store electricity in batteries until it is needed. EVRAZ Group is the world’s largest producer of vanadium alloys and chemicals used in these applications.

Vanadium is generally found in the earth in combination with other metals. For example, EVRAZ steel operations in Russia and South Africa process iron ore containing vanadium. This vanadium is recovered from the steelmaking slag and converted into ferrovanadium and other useful vanadium products. EVRAZ also has an extensive vanadium mine in South Africa and can recover vanadium from other sources such as oil residues and spent catalysts. Vanadium products used by the steel, titanium, and chemical industries are produced in EVRAZ facilities found throughout the world.

EVRAZ Group is a major supplier of ferrovanadium and a proprietary vanadium-nitrogen alloy called Nitrovan® vanadium – products that efficiently strengthen steel. The company also supplies critical-quality vanadium-aluminum and other specialty master alloys to the titanium industry, and it produces a broad range of vanadium catalysts used in chemical and synthetic-rubber operations. EVRAZ sales offices in Switzerland and the United States provide technical assistance and specialize in servicing the vanadium requirements of these diverse customers.