In January-May Electrostal increased continuous cast billet output by 36.42% YoY, to 167.808 thousand tons. According to the company statement, it exported 121.3 thousand tons, and supplied the rest to the local market. In May Electrostal produced 39.669 thousand tons of billets, exporting 39.648 thousand tons. In 2016 the company produced 326.187 thousand tons of…
Prices in industry in May decreased by 1.3% after an increase of 1.6% in April, 3.5% in March and 3.1% in February. According to the State Statistics Service, the main reason of the decline was the price drop of metallic ores (by 22%). In mining and quarrying the product price decrease was 9.8%, while in…
In April ferrous scrap exports totaled 434 thousand tons, up by 26.8% MoM, but down by 36% YoY. According to the customs statistics, in January-April exports reached 1.21 million tons, down by 29.4% YoY, the lowest result for the past 7 years. The main importers were Turkey (34.3%), Belarus (30%) and South Korea (22%). (Ukrainian…
In May, according to the Russian Railroads statistics, pig iron exports totaled 483.6 thousand tons, up by 19% MoM, but down by 9.4% YoY. In January-May exports reached 1.93 million tons, down by 16.8% YoY and by 7% from the 2015 results, but up by 23.5% from 2013 and by 3% from 2014. The main…
The United Metal Company intends to increase 300×300 mm section pipes output at its Vyksa Iron and Steel Works by 20%. The increase is envisioned under the program of developing sales to the construction industry. The products will be used in the construction of modern buildings – skyscrapers, shopping malls, stadiums, etc. “We see great…
Chelyabinsk Zinc Works, a part of UMMC, has successfully passed the second supervisory audit of the integrated management system correspondence to MS ISO 9001:2008, MS ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007. Bureau Veritas Certification has evaluated the quality management, ecological management and health and labor management systems. “The audit has been passed successfully. We have received…
The Ministry of energy and coal industry has asked the Ministry of foreign affairs to inform 8 countries about the risk of illegal coal deliveries from the temporarily occupied regions. According to the ministry letter, such information has to be transferred to the Ukrainian embassies in Turkey, the Netherlands, Spain, Moldova, Bulgaria, Belgium, Poland and…
In May Ukrainian metal companies received 280 thousand tons of scrap, or 100% of the need. In April they received 290 thousand tons of scrap, or 95% of their need. In January-May 1.3 million tons of scrap were delivered to metal works, up by 9% YoY, and 85% of the need. In May scrap stocks…