Yuzhny Kuzbass, a part of Mechel, has purchased a pump for coal concentrate water separation before drying valued at some 6 million rubles for its Siberia central processing factory. The new pump boasts better productivity, as it creates up to 300 cubic meters of air environment per minute, and can also decrease electricity expenses. The…
Evraz has paid some of its loans to a number of banks in Kazakhstan in advance. According to the group statement, it has cleared $120 million of its pre-export financing loan of $500 million, $81 million of the $125 million loan from Unicredit, and $87 of $100 million from Nordea. The Kazakhstan Bank on Development…
Energomashspetsstal will produce working rolls for two ArcelorMittal works. According to the company statement, it will supply 4 working rolls for hot-rolling to Belval & Differdange. According to the contract, the rolls will be delivered in Q3. Their total weight is 130 tons. For ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih EMSS will produce 8 rolls with the total…
In 2016 scrap procurement dropped to 3.5 million tons, the lowest result in the last 20 years. The main reasons for this are the thinning of the main sources of raw materials, machine-building stagnation, decrease in dollar purchasing prices, etc. “Ukraine has a considerable reserve of the outdated metal. The total volume is 600 million…
On March 10, Zaporizhstal started delivering metal to its customers by way of rivers after a three-months winter break. This year the company plans to supply around 600 thousand tons of metal by river to Bulgaria, Turkey, Serbia, Greece and Romania. “Water transportation has undeniable logistics advantages compared with other means of transportation. We systematically…
In January salary debts to state miners increased by 96.6%, to 70.97 million UAH. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, as of January 1, 2017 the salary debt stood at 36.09 million UAH. From January 1, the ministry has increased the selling price of the power-generating coal, yielded by state mines, by…
In January-February Russian ports transshipped 114.8 million tons of cargo, up by 8.2% YoY. According to the Association of the Sea Trade Ports, the positive dynamics was the result of the increase in coal throughput (by 15.2% YoY, to 20.9 million tons) and ferrous metals (by 2.5%, to 4.5 million tons). (Ukrainian metal)
In February Amurmetal, the only ferrous metallurgy enterprise on the Russian Far East, received 4.6 thousand tons of scrap via railroad, up 4 times MoM, but down almost 8-fold YoY. According to the railroad statistics, in January-February railroad deliveries of scrap totaled 5.85 thousand tons, an absolute minimum in the last several years. (Ukrainian metal)