In April industrial output in Ukraine decreased by 1.7% MoM and by 4.6% YoY. According to the State Statistics Service, in metal industry output decreased by 6.5% MoM and by 10.7% YoY. Coke output dropped by 2.2% MoM and by 27.3% YoY. In 2016 industrial output in Ukraine increased by 2.4% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-March Revda Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Works received 3.3 million rubles of net losses. In Q1 2016 it received 13.9 million rubles of net profits. The company earnings increased by 33.6%, to 865.2 million rubles. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-April Amur Zoloto mined 364.2 kg of gold at its deposits and 278.6 kg of silver. All the metal has been smelted at the gold-extracting and processing factory of Yubileyniy GOK. Amur Zoloto intends to construct a module processing factory with the capacity of 100 thousand tons per year at the Perevalnoye deposits. The…
In January-March Kazakhstan mined 273.3 billion tenge ($879.627 million) worth of non-ferrous metals ores, up by 11% YoY. In particular, Kazakhstan mined 31.1 million tons of copper ores, up by 42.2%, 1.7 million tons of copper-zinc ores (up by 7.2%), 2.1 million tons of chromium ores (up by 25.6%) and 1.6 million tons of bauxites…
According to the deputy prime minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko, the country is not negotiating coal supplies with the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization created and supported by Russia. “Belarus has no need for Donbass coal”, he said. The reason for such a statement was the interview of the LPR leader Igor Plotnitsky…
Ukraine has dropped to the 14th position among 67 countries of the Worldsteel rating. China traditionally occupies the first place with 72.777 million tons of steel in April, up by 4.9% YoY. Ukraine produced 1.572 million tons of steel in April, down by 28.6% YoY, losing to Iran with 1.58 million tons of steel, up…
In January-April Poltava Mining and Processing Works, a part of Ferrexpo, exported 2.926 million tons of iron ore pellets to Europe and Near East, as well as Japan, Korea and China. Karelsky Okatysh exported 1.945 million tons of pellets, Mikhailovsky GOK – 1.173 million tons, Lebedinsky GOK – 996.4 thousand tons (all three – Russia),…
In January-March the volume of foreign trade in Kazakhstan amounted to $16.8 billion, up by 24.2% YoY. Exports increased by 30%, to $10.8 billion, and imports – by 15.1%, to $6 billion. Copper ore exports to China and Russia increased almost 3-fold (from $67 million to $182 million); coal – 2.4-fold, to $146 million to…