In 2016 Rusal income decreased by 8% YoY, to $7.983 billion, because of the LME average aluminum price drop of 3.5% YoY, to $1.604 per ton. The corrected net profits and normalized net profits totaled $590 and $1.257 billion respectively, as opposed to $671 million and $1.097 billion in 2015. (Ukrainian metal)
The Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) has announced the appointment of Vyacheslav Gagarinov the managing director of Sinarsky Pipe Works. Previously he has served as the chief engineer of the company. SinTZ ex-director Vyacheslav Popkov has been transferred to the position of the deputy manufacturing general director of TMK. Gagarinov has been working at SinTZ since…
The state owes salary only to the Lisichanskugol miners in Lugansk region. “At present except for the Lisichanskugol salary debt, which is 110 million UAH, there are no debts to state mines”, energy and coal industry minister Igor Nasalik said. In early March Lvivugol miners threatened to stop supplying coal because of the salary debts…