Energosteel always keeps abreast of changes in Ukrainian legislation: our employees attended a meeting organized by the European Business Association, “Inspection visits to the Labor Court are outlawed, and other changes in labor legislation.” Thanks to the speakers Savchuk Valeriya and Melnyk Olexander for the interesting presentation and answering current questions.
Read More
Albert Einstein once said: “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” Can these words be applied to the company’s life? Absolutely! Every organization needs to develop continuously in order to keep a “balance” on the market. One of the main factors of the company’s continuous development is the markets expansion. The expansion of sales geography is the main indicator of growth and development of “Energosteel”. Mastering new horizons, we are showing business activity, a high level of management and European product quality. The decision to expand sales markets is preceded by a marketing research of a potential market in which the company plans to enter. Thus, we analyzed the potential North America grinding media market. The North American market is the most desirable for any entrepreneur and manufacturer, and the steel grinding balls market is no exception. The volume of the North American grinding media market, including cylpebs, is more than 700 thousand tons per year (14% of the world market). Steel grinding balls account for 550 thousand tons of them (approximately 80% of the North American grinding media market). The demand for grinding media is increasing every year, because in this continent […]
Read More
Reducing the cost of consumables is very important for all mining operations and the finished products production. Cost reduction should not lead to decreased quality of the produced product. Material grinding is one of the most important processes affect the total amount of costs in the minerals extraction and any product production. In some industries, grinding costs account for more than 10% of the company’s total operating costs (OPEX). In most cases, steel grinding balls used as grinding media in grinding material. The selection the most efficient grinding media is considered a key step in reducing the grinding process cost. Grinding processes are energy-intensive and inefficient in most cases. Some studies in this area show that 1% of global energy consumption is spent on grinding material. Therefore, it is very important to maximize the efficiency of the grinding process. All costs for grinding can be divided into four main groups: electricity costs; the cost for grinding media purchase ; the cost for acquiring the lining to the mill’ inner drum; labor and other expenses. For your attention is the above diagram clearly demonstrates each cost group consumed in the grinding process. In some industries, the cost for grinding media purchase […]
Read More
More photos at photo gallery The sales department is the heart of every company. The main task of the head the sales department is to make this heart worked like clockwork. How to increase the morale of sales managers, how to create the right microclimate in the team to sales growth, how to pick up specialists, how to motivate the staff – all these issues and many other has at the Conference “B2B Master. Top 20 practices of leadership in sales and management “. Thanks to the speakers for interesting topics, good mood, a lot of practical advice.
Read More
More photos at photo gallery As part of familiarization with the leading enterprises of the region, the head of the Zmiievsky District Administration, Vitaly Anatolyevich Koshelenko visited the ENERGOSTEEL plant the 4-th July 2019. The meeting was interesting and informative. The head of the District Administration has been impressed by our production area and has noted “It’s nice to be at factories that produce their own product: they have good prospects. The better for us when if such enterprises will be more in Ukraine.”
Read More
In today’s dynamic world, the company’s reputation and recognition play a key role in attracting and retaining talent. A systematic approach to branding allows you to work with the best and create ambassadors from among the company’s employees. How to build a strong employer brand? What is EVP (Employee Value Proposition) and is it necessary to measure eNPS (Employee Net Promoter Score)? What actions to take when staff engagement falls? How to establish communication channels? Our HR-manager Kochetova Anastasia received the answers to these questions on June 20 at the event “Engage and Win: in the Wake of World Employer Branding Day 2019 in Lisbon.” Speakers Olga Uzlova (consultant of Jansen Capital Management), Maria Panchenko (HRD of the company Novaya Pochta) told about trends and practical cases of Mars, Facebook, Netflix, LinkedIn, Accenture, Branded.Careers companies; Natalya Khvostova (HRD of the Kernel company) shared practical experience in building the company’s brand in Ukrainian realities. Thanks to the European Business Association (EBA) and Jansen Capital Management for the excellent organization and the opportunity to discuss the best world practices!
Read More
One of the competitive advantages of ENERGOSTEEL Сompany is constantly consulting with specialized research institutes in our business activities. The topics of consultation are quite diverse: starting from the issues of the grinding media use in the grinding process to the introduction of new technologies in the grinding ball production. In 2019, we conducted a joint work with one of the Kyiv Institutes under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. This institute specializes in technical thermal physics. The purpose of the work is a comprehensive analysis of the hardening cooling process in the steel grinding balls production: the grinding balls initial temperature, the cooling medium composition, the water temperature and its mixing intensity, the method of controlling the cooling time and determining the quenching end in water emulsion and switching to self-tempering mode. Upon the work done completion, there were been selected several variants the cooling media, which should improve the grinding balls hardenability, produced by experimental steel grades. The check laboratory research results in industrial production conditions scheduled in the near future. Follow our publications.
Read More
High-grade text on the company’s website is its “business card”. But not always such content is effective. How to increase the effectiveness of texts? Is it possible to create a positive impression about the company with the help of content? Responses to those and other enquiries were provided by Denis Kaplunov to Energosteel staff at open lecture: How to Write Effective Texts. This event was organized by the EBA Management Development Center team together with Denys Kaplunov Studio. Denis Kaplunov is one of the most famous and great copywriters. He shared his long-term experience in sphere of copywriting and useful tips regarding writing high-grade and effective texts. Energostil thanks the European Business Association for the opportunity to be a participant in such events and for its continuous comprehensive development.
Read More
To date, there is no business that would not apply cold sales in its activities. But this method of selling goods and services is not always successful due to strong market competition. How to highlight the strengths of the seller and the company he represents? How to distinguish your company in the buyer’s subconscious against the backdrop of many competitors? The sales staff of “Energosteel” received answers to these questions and learned a lot of the subtleties of the cold sales technique in an open lecture: Cold B2B Sales, organized by the European Business Association (EBA) together with Sales Generation. The lecture speaker was Mikhail Gaichuk – founder of Sales Generation, author of techniques “The fear dismissal of the cold calls”, “The scale of the best seller”, “10 passports to success in building the cold sales department”, “6 rules of the cold entrance via social networks”. Mikhail shared his personal experience with the audience, spoke about the scale of the cool seller and its components, revealed the main points of success in cold sales, including through social networks. “Energosteel” thanks the European Business Association for long-term cooperation and organization of educational lectures, which open up many opportunities for the development […]
Read More
We have repeatedly noted the fact that the company Energosteel constantly conducts comprehensive measures to improve the quality characteristics of the products produced. In this regard, we constantly offer our customers the industrial testing based on their production. As a rule, these are industrial tests that are carried out in ball mills on the production base of our partners. Thus, we are conducting four full-scale experiments currently. In the near future two more tests will start, supplies of grinding media for which have already been carried out. We would like to note that we are constantly in contact with the technical specialists of our partners in order to get feedback on the quality of our products. During the experiments, in addition to telephone contact, our specialists visit the client, jointly conduct a visual inspection of the grinding media state, carry out instrumental measurements to determine the specific consumption of the tested balls. Over the past five months of 2019, we are faced with a situation where the grinding balls in the mill (when stopped) aren’t set right in terms of the grinding process effectiveness. Let’s look at this question in more detail. Thus, to obtain high-quality grinding, the ball in […]
Read More
“Energosteell” staff visited Personalities: Dmitry Shimkiv, organized by the European Business Association (EBA). Dmytro Shymkiv – entrepreneur and top manager of information technology with 20 years of experience, head of the board of PJSC “Pharmaceutical Firm Darnitsa”, ex-deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, ex-CEO of “Microsoft Ukraine”. Talked about surviving the Antarctic, successful experience of managing large companies, motivation and life principles. “Energostil” thanks the organizers for an interesting and informative meeting. Such events are very valuable for us with regard to sharing unique experiences, motivating and expanding horizons.
Read More
“Energosteel” regularly conducts quality management audits in order to maintain the effective functioning of the quality management system. Thus, in April 2019 the testing laboratory of LLC “Plant “Energosteel” successfully passed the regular certification for the measurement system’s compliance with the requirements of DSTU ISO10012:2005 “Measurement management systems. Requirements for measurement processes and measuring equipment”. The audit was carried out by the “Kharkiv Regional Scientific and Production Center of Standardization, Metrology and Certification”, State-Owned Enterprise. According to the results of the audit, experts made recommendations for the improving the measurement system and issued a certificate No. 01-0043 / 2019 of the measurement system compliance with the requirements of State Standard ISO10012: 2005. The recommendations of the experts were to control the actual conditions (the temperature and humidity) during hardness, impact resistance and geometric dimensions measurements at all workplaces where these measurements are taken (not only the laboratory premises, but also the production workshops, warehouses of the raw materials and finished products) using a special device – hygrometer SNDWAY SW-572. We took into account and implemented in the work the recommendations of the experts. We purchased this device to control and record in protocols and conclusions of temperature and humidity. The […]
Read More
More than 35 plants specializing in the production of aerated concrete blocks are among our customers. The geography of these enterprises is quite extensive – almost all the plants are in Ukraine, the CIS countries and the near and far abroad. The brief overview of the grinding process in the aerated concrete production has been published for our readers earlier. Energosteel specialists have analyzed the grinding balls shipments to customers specializing in the of aerated concrete production over the past four years in order to improve the Energosteel’s competitiveness in the grinding media market. The analysis revealed that in most cases the 40 mm grinding balls are used. Although there are clients that use the 30 mm grinding balls. There are also plants that use a 40mm/30mm mixture, but in this case the mixing ratio is different for each individual enterprise. The grinding technological conditions (the type of mills and armouring lining, parameters of grinding material and so on) are similar in all enterprises. To provide the necessary grinding fineness, you need to load the optimal 40mm and 30mm grinding balls ratio. This is, however, not always achieved. In this case 35 mm grinding balls is the ideal solution. Technical […]
Read More
It’s no secret that raw material is one of the most important elements of production, which affects the technology and quality of finished products. The efficiency of the plant “Energosteel” depends on the supply of high-quality raw materials. That is why we are constantly expanding the range of raw material suppliers (hot rolled round bar) and carry out careful incoming inspection of the round bar. Because high-quality steel grinding balls that meet all technological standards and customer requirements, are obtained only from the high-quality raw materials. Thus, on May 7, 2019, a meeting between representatives of “Energosteel” company and a potential supplier of round bar 80 mm was held. The monthly round bar purchases reach up to 2,000 tons in our company. This metallurgical plant specializes in the production of high-quality alloyed types of steel. Following the negotiations, parties had reached an agreement on the supply of a test batch first of 200 tons in May this year. The development stages of further cooperation also were planned. We are confident that the agreements reached at the meeting will have positive results for both parties. “Energosteel” thanks the representatives of the plant for the warm welcome and friendly tone of the […]
Read More
In 2017, we have published a whole series of articles in which we have described in detail the grinding ball testing procedure. In this article we will briefly list the main points that you should know and work out carefully before starting the tests. The tests are divided into three types: – laboratory tests are done in laboratory (small) mills. This tests results are used for scientific reasoning of conducting more extensive tests on the use of certain grinding media in industrial conditions. – semi-industrial tests are done in ball mills, whose size is closest to size of mills that used in a particular industry (the terms of using grinding balls are closest to operating conditions). Such tests are conducted on the test base of manufacturers of ball mills or grinding balls. – industrial trials are performed in the production conditions of a particular consumer. The industrial tests are divided into three groups depending on the kind: – tests by using ”marked grinding balls”; – tests conduction by the ”replacing grinding balls method”; – tests providing with a new grinding balls (the new grinding balls loaded into an empty test mill). Before the start of the test there is a […]
Read More
Not so long ago in our publication we considered one of the methods for measuring quality of grinding material when using grinding balls. This indicator was based on the definition of “residue on the sieve “. In this article we will consider another method, which involves the calculation of the “specific surface area value”. Both of these indicators fully characterize the concept of ”grinding quality” and the grinding process optimality in ball mills. The specific surface, or specific surface area, is the total surface of all the crushed material (usually dispersed or porous ) particles divided by the mass of the test material. The material specific surface consists of the total surface areas of all its grains. The smaller the size of these grains (grinding is thinner), the greater the area of their total surface. If the particles of the crushed material have a developed porous surface, the surface area of a single grain gets bigger compared to its absolutely smooth analog, which is equal in geometrical parameters. The physical properties of the grinding material can be defined by the indicator of specific surface area (measured in cm2/cm3 or cm2/g). This indicator of grinding material is very important in the […]
Read More
One of the key success factors of ”Energosteel” is our employees who share the corporate culture and values of the organization, are focused on results and are always open to new experiences. Despite the fact that ”Energostil” creates all comfortable conditions for professional development, our employees are taking their own initiatives in developing their professional skills. So, on April 06-07, the CEE2019 exhibition was held – the most large-scale annual exhibition of electronics, electrical engineering, toys, electric transport in Ukraine, which was visited by an IT specialist of the company “Energostil”. The exhibition brought together more than 200 leaders from various industries and business areas. Visitors to the exhibition had the opportunity to be exposed to technologies and test new (updated) information technology programmers products and business solutions for systemic integration. This knowledge is useful for each organization, irrespective of operational area, because new solutions allow to effectively manage business processes.
Read More
The company Energosteel uses a round billet steel from alloyed steel grades according to specifications for the high-quality grinding balls production. There is a large number of different mechanical characteristics of the metal taken into account in the production of grinding balls. The process parameters of metal heat treatment are also important. The metal hardness measurement of finished products (steel grinding balls) is carried out more frequently than other tests, because this indicator is one of the main parameters for understanding the term ” grinding media quality “. Let’s consider the hardness definition features in more detail. The hardness is a resistance to surface deformation or destruction of the during the application of strong pressure. All methods of the materials hardness determining (grinding balls) can be divided into several main groups: Static methods are characterized in that the load gradually increases. The exposure time can vary – it varies from the features of the method used. Dynamic methods are characterized in that the load on the sample is supplied with a certain kinetic energy. At the same time, the hardness index is less accurate, because during a dynamic drop, a certain impact occurs due to the material elasticity. The results […]
Read More
The right choice of grinding balls is the main factor that guarantees the achievement of maximum performance in the grinding process. There is a question: how to evaluate the grinding quality? There are several methods for determining this parameter. The most common and simplest method for determining grinding quality is ‘sieve residue’ calculation. The essence of the method is the determination of partial and full residues on standard sieves as a result of sieving the selected sample after the material grinding (for each case the set of sieves can differ, it depends on the grinding requirements according to the technological map of each enterprise). To determine the granulometric composition of the material, the sample is dried when grinding occurs in a wet environment. Consider a concrete example when the ground material is ordinary sand. Before sieving, weigh the sample and dry it. A set of sieves is prepared by placing sieves with larger openings above the sieves with smaller openings. The sieving consists of placing a sample onto a sieve with the largest diameter openings and agitating the sieve manually or mechanically. In our case, we will use sieves with the following opening sizes: 2.5 mm; 1.25 mm; 0.63 mm; […]
Read More
