According to Mr. Taras Shevchenko, CEO of the Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, the company has restarted full capacity operations at three of its four blast furnaces. Operations at two of the four BFs were stopped during the global economic crisis due to the shortage of raw materials, while the other two BFs were operating…
The Ukrainian steelmaker Zaporizhstal has announced that it plans to start the cold testing of its new pulverized coal injection plant in early April this year and to begin testing with raw coal and coal dust in early May.Zaporizhstal has finished the main construction works at the PCI plant and the subcontractors have started the…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has announced that it has approved of a new quality policy, placing clear focus on customer and customer relations optimization which has become of utmost importance due to the overcoming of the consequences of the crisis in the steel consumer market.Mr. Jean Jouet, CEO of ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, said “Unlike in the…
The Ukrainian Electrometallurgical Works Dneprospetsstal announced that it has placed an order to Austria-based giant engineering and plant making company Siemens VAI Metals Technologies for the supply of a new electric arc furnace (EAF-60) for the smelting of special steel grades. The total cost of the order amounts to EUR 10 million.The new EAF-60 with…
Metinvest wholesale channel, Metinvest-Ukraine Company, in 2010 will perform as the strategic partner of Azovmash OJSC in terms of rolled metal products supplies. This will increase monthly average shipment volumes to Azovmash by 7 times from 2,000 tons per month in 2008 to 2009 to 14,000 tons per month in 2010.82% of the total sales…