About segment

SIBPROJECT’s production mission devoted to the processing of complex and numerous raw materials required the creation of new non-conventional technologies and equipment.

The “engineering” team was created to address those challenges in 2009.

The engineering division of SIBPROJECT is a team of unique professionals having a vast experience acquired both in the scientific domain and at the production sites of a number of major businesses of the non-ferrous and rare metal industries. Cooperation with the leading scientific schools of Russia enabled the team to quickly proceed to solving new and complex problems not only within SIBPROJECT but also in collaboration with such enterprises as MMC Norilsk Nickel, Krastsvetmet, Outotec, Engineering Dobersek GmbH, etc. Several of those projects were completed on a turnkey basis.

Today, the “Engineering” segment is capable of implementing projects in the non-ferrous and precious metals domain ranging from advising, modeling, participation in retrofitting and upgrading activities to launching a turnkey production facility. The company is also engaged in the shortlisting of equipment suppliers, tending procedures and supporting deliveries and equipment installation operations.

Technical audit of metallurgical facilities or individual segments

Development of technology for SIBPROJECT’s production base; designing, organizing construction and commissioning of a silver precipitate processing site to produce dore alloys. The unique and unparalleled production facility has been successfully operating for ten years and created more than 100 new jobs.

Development and implementation of a technology for processing zinc-containing gold-silver and silver-gold concentrates involving the extraction of valuable components at SIBPROJECT’s Krasnoyarsk site.

The creation of a unique high-temperature production compound for SIBPROJECT based on a DC furnace made it possible to process several types of raw materials comprising refractory oxides containing platinum, palladium, rhodium and silver.

The process compound enabled the production site to significantly expand its raw material base and the addition of allow dispersing and enriching strings to the compound significantly improved the quality of downstream products delivered for further refining.

Implementation of a competitive project jointly with Outotec, Engineering Dobersek GmbH and Krastsvetmet aimed to develop an optimal technology for constructing a new metallurgical shop at MMC Norilsk Nickel.

Monitoring and analysis of Krastsvetmet’s existing facilities. The modeling of both individual devices and the entire site and subsequent pilot tests resulted in the discovery of reserves for  significantly boosting the output and development of source data for the terms of reference envisaging the reconstruction of the pyrometallurgical facility.

Implementation of projects ranging from ore dressing to retrieving precious metals suitable for refining.

Development of technology for manufacturing engineering products featuring precious metals.

The work resulted in the provision of new nonferrous and rare metal production strings with cutting-edge process equipment and optimization of existing production facilities in terms of quality improvement and output increase. Some of the know-how developed by the company's experts were patented in the Russian Federation and implemented at Russian enterprises.

Technologies for processing technogenic depositsenabling the extraction of valuable components from them (gold, silver, platinum) is one of the promising areas being a focus of the company’s current activities. For this purpose, a pilot site was created at SIBPROJECT’s production facility in Krasnoyarsk to master the processing of samples from technogenic deposits and obtaining representative samples for research.