Severstal has started the certification process for its rolled steel manufacturing technology for making of bore platforms. Representatives of the Russian Sea Register will supervise certification and manufacturing of the finished product. Severstal has completed testing of the first batch of sheets produced at the mill 5000 in Kolpino (Leningrad region) at the end of September.

Over 8 months of 2002, Severstal certified 58 new grades steel for shipbuilding. Six classification societies approved manufacturing technologies of rolled steel. Four of them have already issued Severstal certificates for manufacturing of steel for shipbuilding with their supervision. Severstal has received certificates of the Russian Sea Register and Bureau Veritas Russia (France), Lloyd's Register (England And Germany).

Six certification societies (Lloyd's register, American Bureau of Shipbuilding, Bureau Veritas (Norway), Bureau Veritas (Russia), Lloyd's Register (Germany) and Russian Sea Register has concomitantly certified steel of normal durability at the Mill 5000 (Sheet Rolling Shop ? 3 in Kolpino) and steel of increased durability at the Mill 2800 (Sheet Rolling Plant ? 1) and Mill 2000 (Sheet Rolling Plant ? 2).

Russian Sea Register has also certified steel of high durability and improved weldability made at Mill 2800 (Sheet Rolling Plant ?1) with warranted thickness, and Lloyd's Register (England) has certified rolled steel of normal to increased durability with warranted thickness.

Over 8 months of 2002, Severstal supplied 66,000 tonnes of shipbuilding steel to Russian and foreign clients.

In 2001, Severstal received 27 certificates of the aforementioned societies, having shipped nearly 69,000 tonnes of shipbuilding steel.