In January-November Ukraine exported 13.35 million tons of rolled metal, down by 15% YoY. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, semi-finished wares share increased to 42.3% from 30% in 10 months, while the flat and long rolled metal ratio was 34.1% and 23.6% as opposed to 29.1% and 27%. The decrease of the long rolled metal share is…
Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works has resumed operation after a 10-month idleness. According to Leonid Pasechnik, the so-called acting head of the Lugansk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization created and supported by Russia, the blast furnace No. 5 with the capacity of 1.2 million tons of pig iron per year has been put in operation.…
Chinese company Debang Guangdong plans to create a $5 billion cluster for deep processing of steel in Russia’s Primorsky region, Yao Xiaodong, chairman of the board of directors, announced “We want to set up a metallurgical production base in the Primorsky region. The territory of the Far East has resources that are necessary for the…
Zaporozhye Titanium and Magnesium Works has concluded an agreement with Khimvektor LLC for the delivery of ilmenite worth 13.38 million UAH. This year the company will supply 2 thousand tons of ilmenite concentrate at 6690 UAH per ton, or $252 per ton. According to official sources, in October ilmenite concentrate was exported from Ukraine at…
PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) is experiencing significant difficulties in transporting 5 million tons of steel products from the enterprise to the Black Sea ports of Ukraine and delivering 2.5-3 million tons of iron ore concentrate to consumers in Eastern Europe, company CEO Paramjit Kahlon has stated. “One of the biggest problems at the…
Metinvest has become the owner of AG Stal LLC, the manufacturer of welded pipes. At present the company operates as a pipe-welding shop of Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. All the customers who want to buy AG Stal products are switched to Metinvest. Metinvest acquired the company last year. The company initiated its own…
Karabashmed has assembled a new thickener with the diameter of 24 meters at its processing factory. The transition to the new machinery with larger diameter will improve productivity and copper concentrate manufacture efficiency, as well as increase the company environmental safety. Moreover under the program of technical development the company has put in operation 5…
In 2017 Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant is expecting to produce the record 57 tons of selenium. The previous record of 48.3 tons of selenium was achieved in 2014. The increase in output is due to the complete transfer of the company to Karabashmed raw materials, and the manufacture grew from 4.8 tons per months to…