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	State of the Environment in Košice 2001

Industry and services

How does the SECTOR influence city environment

The quality of the environment in Košice is affected mainly by the heavy industry of the VSŽ Košice iron works (since 2000 VSŽ Košice and US Steel Košice). The production of the said company represents a closed metallurgical cycle that includes energy distribution, raw material supply, media distribution, preparation, coke production with subsequent chemical operation, service equipment as well as traditional metallurgical aggregates such as blast furnaces, converters and rolling mills. This means, that a large number of technological assemblies and equipment participate in environmental pollution.

What is the SECTOR in the City like

The VSŽ iron works has a dominant position in the industrial production.

What is being done to make the SECTOR more environment-friendly

In the future period following tasks must be solved:

dust removal from the agglomeration (the sintering belts),

dust removal from the production halls of the iron works,

desulphurization of coke-oven gases,

dust control of the foundry of blast furnaces,

ecological reconstruction of heating plant boilers,

ecological improvement of the Mokrá halda wet waste pile,

construction of a hazardous waste landfill,