The damage to the Gorlovka – Toretskoye water pipeline resulted in flooding of mines, and because of methane the citizens of Toretsk are under constant threat of explosion and gas poisoning. The pipeline was damaged in early January as the result of the shelling. And the water is flooding the Yuzhnaya mine and mine named…
Irkutsk Aluminum Works has fulfilled the first contract to produce wire rod of 3000 and 4000 series alloys. The batch of 20 tons has been sent to a Moscow region works, producing welding wire. The wire to weld aluminum sections and structures is in demand all across Russia, but is mostly manufactured of imported wire…
Vysochaishy is preparing to put the first stage of manufacture at the Taryn Mining and Processing Works into operation in September. In August 2016 the government approved of the infrastructure support of the project at the Drazhnoye deposits in Yakutia. The project capacity of the first stage is 700 thousand tons of ore per year…
Kyshtym Electrolitic Copper Plant has assembled a new bridge crane with the lifting capacity of 10 tons at its copper electrolysis shop. The company needed the new machine because of the future increase of output. The crane will be put into operation in the near future. Under the modernization program in 2017 KMEZ intends to…
Evraz ZSMK has put into operation the new rewinding machine. The Italian mill rewinds large 1-2.5 tons coils into smaller one of 100-150 kg. Such coils are easier to transport and unload, and their unwinding does not require additional equipment. The new mill is an important stage of a major capacity developing project. In 2013…
Over 70% of coal, illegally taken from the occupied territories of Donbass to Russia, are then exported through 2 companies, connected with brothers Alexander and Sergei Melnichuks. The former is the “deputy energy minister” of the so-called Lugansk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization, created and supported by Russia, while the latter legally trades in coal…
The third vessel with anthracite from South Africa for DTEK has arrived. On August 14 the unloading began. The coal will be sent to Pridneprovskaya and Krivorozhskaya thermal power plants. The first vessel with African coal arrived on May 25, and the second on July 23. DTEK says it buys coal at around $100 per…
Metinvest mining and processing works have asked the acting chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevgeny Kravtsov to help provide enough railroad wagons. While the enterprises need 4141 wagons, they received only 695 (or 16.7%). In particular InGOK needed 378 wagons from Uzhgorod to Slovakia, but received none, from Chop to the Czech Republic – 162 and 10…