NLMK Engineering has developed design documentation for the construction of METALIT RUS automotive components plant. The plant will be located in Lipetsk Special Economic Zone of the industrial-production type.

METALIT RUS will be the first small castings greenfield plant built in Russia in the last twenty years.

The plant focuses on production of automotive components from high-strength cast iron with a 20,800 tpa capacity. The plant's products are used in wagon building, construction industry, and oil and gas industry. It is planned to sell these products both in Russia and in the CIS countries.