The Trade Committee of South Korea has imposed antidumping duties on ferrosilicomanganese from Ukraine, India and Vietnam. The duty in the volume of 4.06-19.06% is set for 5 years. Since May 31 preliminary duties in the volume of 6.08-32.32% have been in effect in South Korea. According to the Committee, in 2015 the country consumed…
In H1 2017 Ferrexpo increased investments into Poltava, Yeristovo and Belanovsky Mining and Processing Works by 58.4% YoY, to 1.15 billion UAH. In particular, PGOK received 762.3 million UAH, Yeristovo GOK – 356.7 million UAH, and Belanovsky GOK – 26.4 million UAH. This year Ferrexpo intends to invest some $100 million more into its GOKs.…
Belarus plans to set up one more industrial steel making plant, Belarus’ Vice Premier Vladimir Semashko said. According to the vice premier, the Belarus Iron and Steel Works started producing wire-rod mill in 2015. “With this line in operation, we have covered 60% of the needs of the domestic mechanical engineering sector. We satisfy the…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to construct 2 continuous casting machines for the manufacture of slabs. The project could start after the machines Nos. 2 and 3 are constructed. By April 2019 the construction and commissioning should have been complete. As the result, some 4 million tons of steel will be produced using the continuous cast…
By the end of the year Zagorsky Pipe Works will have supplied some 121 thousand tons of pipes to Gazprom. “Since May we have been manufacturing pipes for Gazprom. We have concluded several agreements for the delivery of pipes for repairs”, the company corporate communications deputy director Igor Gusenkov said. At present the capacities of…
As of September 10 the Vetrensky gold deposits in Tenkin city district of Magadan region yielded 357.8 kg of gold, up by 67% YoY. Last year as of September 10 Electrum Plus, a part of Susumanzoloto, mined 239.4 kg of gold. This year the group management set the output plan for the company on the…
In August the metal plating shop No. 2 of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works produced 63 thousand tons of galvanized metal. The previous record of 60 thousand tons was set in May 2016. Last month the continuous hot alumining and continuous galvanizing mills operated at the maximum capacity. At the same time output increased because…
In 2016 consumption of large diameter pipes (LDP) decreased by 35.5% YoY, to 2.14 million tons, as the construction of new pipelines in Russia was slowed. At the same time the oil-and-gas pipes were in a stable demand, which was projected to remain in the near future following the increase of drills and the replacement…