NLMK and SAP have signed a memorandum on strategic cooperation to create the first laboratory of innovations in Russian metal industry. Its goal will be to research and develop innovative solutions to be used in the mining and metallurgical sphere. The memorandum was signed by the NLMK Group president Oleg Bagrin and the member of…
The National anticorruption bureau of Ukraine suggests the State Property Fund to annul the contract with the Zaporozhye Titanium and Magnesium Works director suspected in 492 million UAH embezzlement. According to the bureau chairman Artem Sytnik, the ZTMK director has violated several clauses of the contract. The bureau also suggests the SPF to analyze the…
In January the world pig iron manufacture increased by 6.78% YoY, to 97.586 million tons. CIS countries increased output by 5%, to 6.855 million tons. In particular, Ukraine produced 2.03 million tons. North America increased pig iron output by 4,7%, to 2.56 million tons, EU – by 4.1%, to 8.25 million tons, South America –…
Energomashspetsstal has created an ingot weighing 415 tons. The ingot will be used to produce a shell of the reactor for one of the nuclear power plants being constructed. EMSS used the newest techniques in the production of the ingot. The ingot has been delivered to the AKK-15000 forging mill. The total weight of the…
The acting chairman of the State Service of geology and soil Nikolai Boyarkin has signed 4 orders to allow the Nuclear Energy Systems of Ukraine LLC to prospect and mine uranium in Nikolaev and Dniepropetrovsk regions. In February 2016 the company addressed the service to provide allowances to operate on 5 uranium ore deposits for…
The Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry intends to reduce grade A coal consumption from 9.5 million tons to 6 million tons in 2017, minister Ihor Nasalyk has stated at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. “The ministry has developed and is implementing four programs enabling us to replace more than 3.5…
The mine-constructing management of the Gaysky Mining and Processing Works is finishing construction of an important object for the underground mine – the complex of wagons in the mineshaft. “The goal of this complex is to bring up wagons with rock to the surface. The daily capacity of the complex is expected to amount to…
In February Ukraine produced 1.71 million tons of steel, down by 18.7%, or by 393 thousand tons MoM. The average daily steel smelting in February dropped to 61.1 thousand tons from 67.8 thousand tons in January. Pig iron production in February decreased by 18.2%, to 1.565 million tons, rolled metal output dropped by 20%, to…