In 2016 Zaporizhstal invested 1.8 billion UAH into development and modernization of its manufacture. According to the company statement, among the major projects is the modernization of the gas-purifying system of sintering machines No. 3-6, and the reconstruction of the blast furnace No. 3. The latter costs 1.5 billion UAH. “Ukraine is still experiencing the…
On March 28, Nornickel’s Vice President – State Secretary, GR Elena Bezdenezhnykh and Murmansk region governor Marina Kovtun signed the cooperation Agreement AS part of environmental campaigns conducted in Russia in 2017, namely the Year of Environmental Protection and the Year of Specially Protected Natural Areas. The agreement is aimed at furthering environmental cooperation in…
Bakytzhan Sagintayev has visited Aktobe Ferroalloy Plant as a part of his working trip. Kazakh Prime Minister took a look at fabrication activity and further plans of the enterprise. He also inspected the operating furnaces of the plant and visited dispatch department. It should be noted that, Aktobe Ferroalloy Plant performs a complete cycle of…
Uzbekistan’s Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Complex JSC started construction of the fifth hydrometallurgical plant at the Auminza-Amantai gold ore deposit. The country’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the plant’s groundbreaking ceremony on March 28. The new plant, worth $396 million, is expected to annually process five million tons of ore. Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Complex is…
Ukraine’s Energy and Coal Industry Ministry predicts that as of May 1, anthracite coal stocks will be 182,600 tons, down by 63% from March 29 (494,100 tons). According to the document posted on its website, gas coal stocks as of May 1, would total 1.321 million tons, up by 0.2% from March 29 (1.318 million…
Exports of coal from the Arctic terminal Chaika (Dikson) by the Northern Sea Route will make 1 million tons in 2017, Vadim Bugayev, Director General of VostokCoal (VostokUgol Management Company), said. According to him, this volume does not include cargo going back to the Taimyr Peninsula. Key consumers of the anthracite coal from the field…
One third of uranium supplied to South Korea is imported from Kazakhstan, according to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to South Korea Dulat Bakishev. “30% of uranium supplied to South Korea is imported from Kazakhstan,” the Ambassador noted. The volume of commodity turnover between Kazakhstan and South Korea in 2016 comprised $676 million ($223…
In 2016 Interpipe paid 1.426 billion UAH to the budgets of all levels. According to the company statement, this is 36% more than in 2015 (1.045 billion UAH). In particular, Interpipe paid 768 million UAH to the state budget (53.9% of all payments), 427 million UAH (30%) to the local budgets of Dnipro, Nikopol, Novomoskovsk…
