In late June Donetskstal stopped all labor relations with the employees of its “Metallurgical complex” subsidiary in Donetsk because of its shut down. Earlier the decision to fire personnel has been taken by Donetsk Iron and Steel Works, also a part of Donetskstal. These decisions have been motivated by the “actions of unidentified persons”, resulting…
Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine has started restoring operation after a 3-months idleness. According to the company statement, the works has already restored the supplies of all kinds of energy resources, including electric energy and gas. Soon the first trains with raw materials will start arriving. The blast furnace No. 1 will be put into…
The president of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko has vetoed the bill No. 6382 “On changes to the Decree of Ukraine “On changes to some decrees of Ukraine as to the decrease of the ferrous metals scrap deficiency on the local market”. The bill has been returned with the president’s marks. Earlier the Verkhovnaya Rada decided to…
Alexander Podkorytov, ex-CEO of Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works, a part of Metinvest, has been appointed the CEO of Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine, a part of the Industrial Union of Donbass. On July 7 the new CEO was presented to the employees by one of ISD owners Sergey Taruta and the corporation executive director…
In January-June Amur region obtained 11126 kg of gold, up by 22.6% YoY, including 9269 kg of ore gold and 1857 kg of alluvial gold. In H1 2016 the region yielded 9004 kg of gold, namely 7322 kg of ore and 1682 kg of alluvial gold. The main increase in output is on behalf of…
Karelsky Okatysh has started reconstruction of its dry magnetic separation complex – new machinery with higher capacity will be installed there. The new complex will be situated at the Zapadny quarry of the Korpangskoye deposits. Its project capacity will be 6 million tons of ore per year, up almost 2-fold from the existing machinery. The…
In January-June railroad transportation of non-ferrous metals to and from the seaports decreased by 2.3% YoY, to 1.93 million tons. In particular, according to the Russian Railroads, exports totaled 1.88 million tons, down by 3.8%, and imports – 53.53 thousand tons, up 2.2-fold. Railroad transportation of non-ferrous metals for exports to the port St. Petersburg…
An accident happened at the “Russia” mine of the state enterprise Selidovugol in Donetsk region, resulting in the death of a miner. “Another miner with medium damages has been transported to the Selidov city hospital”, the Donetsk regional military-civilian administration chairman Pavel Zhebrivsky wrote on his Facebook page. According to him the accident happened on…