In January-August Ukraine produced 13.826 million tons of steel, down by 16% YoY. Rolled metal output decreased by 18%, to 11.806 million tons, pig iron – by 20%, to 12.772 million tons. At the same time pipe manufacture grew by 28%, to 691 thousand tons, while that of coke dropped by 21%, to 6.859 million…
The Ministry of energy and coal industry will find financial resources – some 1 billion UAH – to pay salary to miners and clear 2017 debts. According to the miners union, the primary goal of the ministry and the government is to pay salary to miners in full, as well as clear all the debts…
The Russian Environment Surveillance Service in Magadan region wants to annul the license to use subsoil resources given to Reserv LLC to operate at the Utinskoye deposits. According to the service the company has not started constructing infrastructure objects, nor has it prepared the mining object to be put into operation. The company director Victor…
Zaporozhye Aluminum Works has recalled its employees from the forced vacation, which started on August 17-18. Still the company is not producing aluminum wire rod because of the absence of raw materials (primary aluminum). “We were not producing wire rod in Q2 and Q3 because of two reasons: there were still products at the warehouse,…
A subsidiary of the state concern Rosgeologia – Dalnevostochnoye PGO – is prospecting at the Arminskaya field in Primorsky region. The work is being financed from the federal budget under the state contract, the company being a subcontractor. The site with the size of 5706 square meters is situated on the territory of 3 administrative…
Beringpromugol LLC intends to have increased coal mining at the Fandyushkinskoye Pole deposits in Chukotka to 2 million tons per year by 2024. In 2020 a new processing factory with the capacity of 1 million tons per year will be put into operation. According to the company CEO Denis Kurochkin, until the end of the…
The “Hovering Bridge” in Moscow is being constructed using the rebar threads supplied by Severstal-Metiz. For the construction of the bridge the company has already supplied over 170 tons of rebar threads. They were used as rebars in ferroconcrete structures. Now the bridge is ready for operation. The “Hovering Bridge” is a V-type structure. Its…
In August Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine underproduced 10 thousand tons of rolled metal because of the forced idle time of the 400/200 mill. According to the acting director of the rolling shop on 400/200 mill Igor Chuyko, when the works resumed operation the mill did not operate in normal order because of the lengthy…
