Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works, one of the world’s largest integrated steel plants (a part of Severstal’s Russian Steel division), has launched the commercial operation of a digital predictive model to prevent failures at the hot rolling mill 2000 and thereby reduce its downtime. This model calculates the probability and risk of the pinion stand…
The Evraz Sukhaya Balka shareholders meeting scheduled for October 11 did not take place. According to the company statement, the meeting was postponed till November. This meeting had to rename the company and make amendments to its charter documents. (Ukrainian metal)
Rosterminalugol JSC, the largest dedicated coal port in the Baltic region, a part of Russia’s largest coal port holding Port Management Company LLC, says it has exported 19 million tons of coal this year. The milestone ton was loaded on October 12 onto the Post-Panamax bulk carrier, Spring Wealth, the 266th vessel handled from the…
In January-September the Lugansk Region State Fiscal Service transferred 651.6 million UAH to the state budget, with special fund receiving 451.5 thousand UAH. The largest imports were registered in anthracite coal (203.3 million UAH, 31.4% of the total imports) and coking coal (195.6 million UAH, 30.2%). Among metal companies Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works demonstrated…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih is continuing the relocation of people form the zone of the possible move of the surface in the Saksagansky district of the Kriviy Rih city and is prepared to purchase every house on the Lavrenin and Chistopolskaya Streets (the so called Zhukovka settlement) at 425 thousand UAH provided the purchase agreement is…
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works has started the pulverized coal injection process at its blast furnace No. 2. “PCI at BF No. 4 was started according to schedule in November 2016. Construction works at BF No. 2 began in December 2016, and now the PCI process has started”, the company said. The next furnace to…
In January-June Russia produced 12.882 tons of platinum, down by 0.92% YoY, and 45.251 tons of palladium, up by 6.9% YoY. According to the Russian Union of Gold Miners, this year total output of platinum and palladium could reach 25.7-28.1 tons and 85.98-89.16 tons respectively. By-product palladium output increased by 10.7% YoY, to 43.827 tons,…
In 2018 the Komi Republic intends to mine 4.5 million tons of bauxite ore, up 1.4-fold YoY. “Modernization of the Sredne-Timanskiy mine and the switch to the neighboring Verkhne-Schugorskoye deposits will allow us to increase output to 4.5-4.7 million tons and keep it on this level for some 30 years”, the deputy chairman of the…