On July 26 the ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih miners, employees and the union representatives went on a strike with a number of demands, the main being the salary of 1 thousand euro. According to the miners (some hundred of them), the company management refuses to cooperate with them and react to their demands. They believe that…
In January-June Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works produced 2.228 billion kW-h of electricity, up by 0.5% YoY, and the highest result in all its history. The economical effect from the increase of electricity manufacture reached 66.4 million rubles. The share of the company’s own electricity totaled 79.4%, up by 0.8% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
According to the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of national economy, in January-June Kazakhstan increased copper cathode manufacture by 5.4% YoY. Raw zinc output decreased by 0.5%. KAZ Minerals and KazZinc contributed the most to the output. (Ukrainian metal)
As of July 10 Rise LLC has yielded 210 kg of gold. This year the company still operates at two sites: the Pravaya Vizualnaya stream and the Nelgyu River. This year Rise intends to wash 600 kg of gold, up by 23.7% YoY. The stream will yield some 80% of gold. In 2016 Rise yielded…
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is the first among Russian manufacturers of galvanized and coated rolled metal. The rating on the results of the H1 was published in the “Metallosnabzheniye i sbyt” magazine. Last year MMK also headed the rating. In mid-July the works put into operation the continuous galvanizing machine No. 3 with the…
In January-June Severstal supplied 220 thousand tons of metal to Russian and CIS car manufacturers, up by 14% YoY. In particular, Russian car works as well as foreign companies operating in Russia received 163 thousand tons of metal. Deliveries to the CIS countries totaled 57 thousand tons, up by 98% YoY. The increase in exports…
DTEK expects that the third vessel with anthracite coal from the South African Republic will arrive on August 8-10. The vessel left the port of Richard’s Bay on July 10, carrying 75 thousand tons of anthracite for Pridneprovskaya and Krivorozhskaya thermal power plants. (Ukrainian metal)
Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has started assembling metal structures of the roof at the continuous casting machine No. 4 building. “Since the start of the construction over 1.5 thousand tons of metal structure columns and beams have been assembled”, the company CEO Yuri Zinchenko wrote on his Facebook page. The works has also…