The Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine initiates an audit of foreign purchases of uranium concentrate by the state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works. According to the prosecutor of the specialized anticorruption prosecutor’s office Igor Symkiv, under the criminal case of Nikolai Martynenko the energy minister Igor Nasalik has been questioned and…
Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Works and the military-civilian administration (MCA) of the town of Avdiivka have signed an agreement on social partnership for 2017, which provides the financing of social programs in the amount of 11.9 million UAH. The document was signed by the company CEO Musa Magomedov and the MCA chairman Pavel Malykhin. In…
The Chelyabinsk Pipe Works seamless stainless pipes capacities exceed 25 thousand tons per year, with a wide product range. According to the ChTPZ market analysis and trade expansion department chief specialist Maria Semykina, in 5 years the group share in seamless stainless pipes output increased considerably: from 18% in 2012 to 35% in 2016. This…
The ex-people’s deputy Nikolai Martynenko is suspected of embezzling money of the state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works. “The investigation showed that in 2013-2016 the employees of VostGok, Steuermann Investitions und Handelsgesellschaft mbH, as well as some individuals with control over the companies, including Martynenko, embezzled the funds of VostGOK in the amount of…
Severstal reported that in January-March its average prices for iron ore pellets increased to $86 per ton from $36 per ton a year ago, with export destinations being Europe and the Near East. In Q4 2016 Karelsky Okatysh sold pellets at $49 per ton on average, as the prices increased because of the Brazilian Samarco…
According to the National Statistics Department of Georgia, in January-March the total trade with Turkey amounted to $330.7 million, including $54.79 million of exports, up by 9.6% YoY, and $275.96 million of imports, down by 5.5%. Pig iron and alloyed steel semi-finished exports reached 17443 tons valued at $6.32 million, up by 186.2% and by…
In January-March Russia increased raw copper output by 3.3% YoY, while the production of copper alloys dropped by 22.7%. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, copper flakes and powders output decreased by 5.4%, of rods and shapes – by 28.4%, at the same time wire production went up by 15%, and foil –…
In 2017 Novokuznetsk Aluminum Works, a part of RUSAL, will increase its investments by 27.3%, to 280 million rubles. According to the company managing director Victor Zhirnakov, aluminum output will remain on the 2016 level – 213 thousand tons. 180 million rubles will be invested in various environment protection measures, and 100 million rubles –…