Following Taiwan that in mid-January announced it would join the consultations between Japan and India on the Indian steel imports limitations, Ukraine and Russia decided to do the same. According to Russia, the import limitations, imposed by India in 2015-2016, resulted in the decrease of Russian exports to India by 38% YoY in 2016, to…
Yakutugol, a part of Mechel, has purchased two new excavators EKG-18 for the operation at its Neryugrinsky mine. The new machinery was purchased within the program of technical modernization of the enterprise. The cost of the two machines is around 1.2 billion rubles. The first excavator will be put into operation in March. The excavators…
On February 15, the Eurasian Economic Committee will hold a public hearing within the antidumping investigation of the Ukrainian hot-rolled angles supplies to the territory of the Customs Union. The investigation started in August 2016, following the complaint of Evraz ZSMK and NTMK. Severstal and MMK were also interested in implementation of limiting measures. (Ukrainian…
Metinvest fears the blast furnaces of its Azovstal Iron and Steel Works could decrease output to the lowest possible level because of the lack of coke. According to the group’s press-service at present all the blast furnaces are operating, as they get coke from the 3 coking batteries. But they are not enough to provide…
In 2016 Kuzbassrazrezugol enterprises mined 44.3 million tons of coal, including 6.2 million tons of coking coal. The annual output equals the 2015 results, but coking coal production increased by 7.2% YoY. Coal sales decreased by 1.8 million tons YoY, to 39.8 million tons. “This has to do with us increasing the coal processing. Thus…
In 2016 Russia produced 941 thousand tons of ferrosilicon, down by 11% YoY. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in December 2016 ferrosilicon output totaled 95.4 thousand tons, up by 15.7% YoY and by 144.9% MoM. (Ukrainian metal)
In early 2017 Evraz NTMK has increased productivity at its wheel-tyre shop because of the increase in demand on behalf of Russian customers. The increase in output in 2017 is expected to reach 20%. “Wheels are one of our key products. At present we see an increased demand for this type of metal products in…
The Federal Service of ecological, technical and nuclear supervision has fined Boguchansk Aluminum Works and Sorsk Ferromolybdenum Works. BoAZ was checked on November 28 – December 23, 2016 and fined for 40 thousand rubles for illegal construction of heating power plants. While SFMZ was accused of violations of the waterworks safety operation, and fined for…