Avdiivka Coke Plant

Coordinates: 48°09′50″N 37°42′22″E / 48.1639°N 37.7060°E / 48.1639; 37.7060
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48°09′50″N 37°42′22″E / 48.1639°N 37.7060°E / 48.1639; 37.7060

Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant
Авдіївський коксохімічний завод
Coke gas
Owner(s)Metinvest
Websiteakhz.metinvestholding.com

Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant (

coke gas.[2]
The plant consisted of 13 main and 30 auxiliary workshops as well as service structural divisions.

In late 2023 through early 2024, the plant saw intense fighting during a Russian offensive on Avdiivka and was largely destroyed. According to Metinvest CEO Yuriy Ryzhenkov, it cannot be restored.[3] On 17 February 2024, the Avdiivka Coke Plant was completely captured by the Russian forces following Ukrainian withdrawal.[4]

History

Avdiivka Coke Plant in 2012

The plant was constructed in 1963 by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to fulfil the coke needs of the nearby Mariupol Steel Works[5] as well as the availability of coal from local mines. Originally opening with 1 coke battery, this expanded to nine by 1980 with investment from the Soviet Union.[5] By 1988, 100 million tons of coke had been produced making it a major coke producer in Europe.[5] In 1993, as Ukraine gained independence, the plant was privatised as the Open Joint Stock Company 'Avdeevskiy Coke-processing Works'.[6][5]

Starting in mid-April 2014,

War in Donbass.[18]

Administrative building of the plant after Russian shelling in 2023

In 2022, during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces repeatedly shelled and damaged the coke plant.[19][20] In May 2023, it was put on conservation. In November 2023, it was abandoned by last workers.[21] Months of heavy fighting for the plant followed during the Battle of Avdiivka (2023–2024), eventually involving Ukrainian reinforcements from the 3rd Assault Brigade and extensive Russian aerial attacks using glide bombs.[22] On 17 February 2024, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi confirmed that Ukrainian forces were completely withdrawing from Avdiivka, including Avdiivka Coke Plant to "more favourable lines" as to "avoid encirclement and preserve the lives and health of service personnel".[23]

Production

Before the war in Ukraine, production was 12,000 tons of coke per day, worth $2.4m.

Arcelor Mittal in Kryvyi Rih.[24] Avdiivka Coke currently[when?
] produced coke at eight out of its nine coke batteries.

Before its destruction, the plant has seen considerable investment in environmental equipment and facilities including sulphur removal and heat exchangers to reduce energy consumption.[25] The plant was considered important to steel production in Ukraine.[26]

References

  1. ^ "METINVEST :: Avdiivka Coke Plant". akhz.metinvestholding.com. Retrieved 2015-04-18.
  2. ^ "METINVEST :: Products and quality :: Products". akhz.metinvestholding.com. Retrieved 2015-04-18.
  3. ^ "Росія зруйнувала Авдіївський коксохім, його відновити буде неможливо – гендиректор «Метінвесту»" [Russia destroyed the Avdiiv coke plant, it will be impossible to restore it - CEO of Metinvest]. Forbes (in Ukrainian). 2023-12-28.
  4. BBC news
    . 2024-02-17. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
  5. ^ a b c d "METINVEST :: About us :: Our history". akhz.metinvestholding.com. Retrieved 2015-04-18.
  6. ^ "Power structure Avdeyevka Coke and Chemical Plant". Avdeyevka Coke and Chemical Plant. 2023-07-06. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  7. ^ Ragozin, Leonid (16 April 2014). "Vladimir Putin is Accidentally Bringing Eastern and Western Ukraine Together". The New Republic.
  8. ^ "Donbass defenders put WWII tank back into service".
  9. ^ "Ukraine's army launches massive offensive operation on Donetsk".
  10. Ukraine Today
    (21 April 2015)
  11. ^ a b c d e Burridge, Tom (17 April 2015). "Ukraine crisis: The factory that has been shelled 165 times". BBC News. Retrieved 2015-04-18.
  12. ^ "Metinvest Group's Avdiivka Coke hit by artillery".
  13. ^ "The enterprise Manager: Fire on coke under no Donetsk".
  14. Ukrayinska Pravda
    (in Ukrainian). 17 August 2014.
  15. ^ "Сотрудники Авдеевского коксохима просят Порошенко вывести войска из города" [Employees of the Avdiivka coking plant ask Poroshenko to withdraw troops from the city] (in Russian).
  16. ^ "Ukraine clashes rage for third day, sparking EU concern". Agence France-Presse. January 31, 2017. Archived from the original on January 31, 2017. An AFP reporter saw the separatists shell the town of about 20,000 people with repeated rounds of Grad multiple rocket systems and artillery fire from the early morning. "Right now, there is no power. We have not resolved problems with heating homes, and the gas pipe has been shattered," local Ukrainian army unit spokeswoman Olena Mokrynchuk told AFP [...] The town's heating is provided by a coke plant that has been heavily damaged by the falling shells. Plant director Musa Magomedov said it would be incredibly difficult to resume gas production were the factory's generators shut down. That would leave Avdiivka without a source of local power and uncertainty about its future.
  17. ^ "Авдіївці теплопостачання перевели на стабільний режим" [The residents of Avdiiv have switched the heat supply to a stable mode]. pda.pravda.com.ua. 2017-02-05.
  18. ^ "Violence flares in war-weary Ukraine as US dithers and Russia pounces". The Guardian. 14 February 2017.
  19. ^ "Ukraine's largest steel firm says shells hit Avdiivka coke plant". Reuters. March 13, 2022 – via www.reuters.com.
  20. ^ "ВС РФ обстреляли Авдеевку: уничтожено здание коксохимического завода (видео)" [The Russian Armed Forces shelled Avdeevka: the building of the coke plant was destroyed (video)] (in Russian). Focus. 2023-03-08. Archived from the original on 2023-11-06.
  21. ^ "Авдеевский коксохим: современные реалии и значимость для экономики Украины" [Avdiivka coking plant: modern realities and significance for the Ukrainian economy]. GMK Center. 2023-11-09.
  22. ^ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/russia-claims-control-of-avdiivka-after-outnumbered-ukrainian-defenders-withdrew
  23. ^ "Avdiivka: Ukraine troops leave embattled eastern town". BBC news. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
  24. ^ "Ошибка 404" [Error 404] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-05-05. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  25. ^ "METINVEST :: Development :: Energy saving". akhz.metinvestholding.com. Retrieved 2015-04-18.
  26. UPI. Archived from the original
    on February 1, 2017. The town is near the rebel-held city of Donetsk, as well as near important roads used by rebel forces. It is also the home of a coke and chemical plant, Europe's largest of its kind. If the separatists captured the facility it could jeopardize Ukraine's steel industry.

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