In January-March Krasnoyarskkraiugol mined over 2 million tons of coal, up by 20% from the target and by 287 thousand tons YoY. Pereyaslovsky and Sayano-Partizansky open-pits showed the highest growth, with the latter increasing output 1.5-fold in 2 years. In 2016 it mined 700 thousand tons of coal. At present the open-pit is preparing the…
Severstal Balakovo, a part of Severstal Russian Steel, has started producing hot-rolled wire (wire rod) with 6.5 mm diameter. The quality has been confirmed by the laboratory tests and corresponds to GOST 2590 and TU 14-1-5283-94. The shop can produce some 65 tons of wire rods per hour. The wire rods are used in the…
In January-March MMK produced 3.066 million tons of steel, up by 1.4% YoY. According to the company statement, the total loading of capacities at the main site in Magnitogorsk exceeded 94%. Product sales dropped by 2.3% YoY, to 2.723 million tons. High added value products manufacture increased by 5.1%, to 1.313 million tons. The share…
Since the beginning of 2017 the Raspadskaya miners have yielded 1 million tons of coal, up by 19% YoY. “Since the end of 2016 the miners have been keeping pace of work. To effectively mine coal this year the company carries out a massive modernization of mining equipment”, the Raspadskaya Coal Company CEO Sergey Stepanov…
The head of the Russian Federal Agency on state reserves Dmitry Gogin confirmed that Russia was supporting Donbass enterprises. Earlier the head of the Russian commission “on humanitarian aid” to the territories of the south-eastern districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine Sergey Nazarov declared, that “companies, affected by the economical and transport blockade,…
Kachkanarsky Mining and Processing Works, a part of Evraz, has shipped a batch of pellets to Slovakia. According to the company statement, the customer is the largest iron and steel works of the country – U. S. Steel Kosice. The batch weighs 10 thousand tons. “The pellets fully correspond to the customer requirements as to…
In January-March Interpipe Steel produced 181 thousand tons of steel, up by 23.1% YoY. According to the company statement, in March the works produced 65 thousand tons of steel against 55 thousand in February. In 2016 Interpipe Steel increased steel output by 2% YoY, to 614 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
Coal imports from Russia in Q1 reached 221 thousand tons from the total volume of 413 thousand tons. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, from the South African Republic Ukrainian thermal power plants received 72.9 thousand tons of coal, and from Poland – 118.9 thousand tons. Coal stocks increased by 5.2% MoM…