On June 17, Kiev will host the “Scrap metal: sources and market trends” conference. Scrap procurement and sales are having hard times. Export limiting decrees have made the market uncertain and nervous and the conflict with metal makers even deeper. The conference will deal with scrap procurement under such difficult circumstances, prospects of scrap export…
Electricity exports to Europe could stop at any time, resulting in the loss of sales markets for Ukrainian coal companies, those with mines in Lviv-Volyn region in particular. This will affect financial and social-economical situation in the coal industry of the whole country. According to the energy expert Valentin Zemlyansky, at present due to the…
Month Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.3334* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.1865* min max min max March 313 533 302 324 April 327 560 290 340 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 30.04.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
Stepnaya mine of DTEK Mine Group Pervomayskoye has put a new long face into operation. The gas-generating coal reserves of 900 thousand tons will keep miners busy for the next 10 months. The company plans to mine on average 3100 tons of coal there. Investments into the long face machinery totaled 70 million UAH. (Ukrainian…
Dniepropetrovsk Tube Works stands idle because of the absence of billets. At the same time the works has orders for pipe manufacture. It just waits for the billets to start production. In January-April DTZ produced 7.1 thousand tons of pipes, up by 73.2% YoY, with 2.4 thousand pipes in April. In 2015 the works decreased…
Month Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.3334* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.1865* min max min max March 393 393 319 319 April 425 425 426 426 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 30.04.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has finished capital repairs at its blast furnace No. 4 and intends to put it into operation. “Its capacity is 3800 tons of pig iron daily”, said the company in its statement. The blast furnace was stopped in late 2015, the capital repairs started in March. “It’s early to…
Army of dignity has stopped a truck laden with non-ferrous radioactive pipes at the exit from the Chernobyl zone. According to the activists, there were several trucks driving out of the zone, but only one was stopped. There were also a couple of luxury-class cars. According to the drivers, the cargo was checked at two…