Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine intends to switch its blast furnace No. 1M from natural gas to pulverized coal fuel. The furnace shop has started manufacture of slag and pig iron at the blast furnace No. 9. Blast furnaces have enough raw materials. BF9 was put into operation on August 1. DMK started blowing BFs1M…
Tulachermet has shut down its blast furnace No. 3 for scheduled repairs. The halt will not affect the planned output. In July the company had to produce 142 thousand tons of pig iron, and in August – 126 thousand tons. The BF3 was shut down on July 20, and the repairs are expected to last…
Energomashspetsstal has produced and shipped 2 low-pressure turbine rotors to the customer. The machinery has been produced for Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (India). The total weight of the batch is 177.81 tons. Delivery to Haridvar was carried out by railroad and sea transport. (Ukrainian metal)
The European Commission has started an antidumping investigation as to deliveries of Ukrainian and Egyptian ferrosilicon to the territory of the European Union. The investigation was started at the request of Euroalliages and would inspect ferrosilicon produced in Egypt and Ukraine and supplied to the EU from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017. The…
Evraz ZSMK has started producing V500V wire rod with the 10-40 mm diameter according to the British standard. This will allow Evraz to increase exports volume of wire rod and strengthen its position on the foreign market of construction rolled metal. The trial batch has been tested by CARES and confirmed its correspondence to BS…
On August 3 the miners of the mine named after Kapustin refused to start working because of the Ministry of energy and coal industry not fulfilling its promise to clear salary debts. According to the Lisichanskugol coal miners union chairman Vladimir Ivanishin, the miners will resume operation only after the salary is paid to them…
Some 90% of scrap, supplied to TMK companies, is provided by TMK Chermet. Daily over 3 thousand tons of scrap are delivered to Seversk, Volzhsk and Taganrog works. Since the start of the year TMK Chermet has been exceeding the delivery plans by 14% on average. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-June Severstal supplied over 315 thousand tons of rolled metal to Russian machine-building companies, up by 27% YoY. “The growth of the deliveries was the result of the metal consumption increase in some industry sectors, as well as the unique offer of Severstal to Russian machine-builders,” Severstal Russian steel sales director Yevgeniy Chernyakov said.…