In May Donetsk region decreased pig iron output by 21.7% YoY, steel – by 18.4% and rolled metal – by 24.9%. Pig iron output in January-May dropped by 13.5% YoY, to 3.4 million tons, steel – by 6.4%, to 3.5 million tons, and rolled metal – by 7.9%, to 1.9 million tons. Despite the decrease…
In August Ukrainian metal companies intend to produce 1.7 million tons of steel. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, pig iron output is forecast at 1.4 million tons and rolled metal – at 1.6 million tons. For July Ukrmetallurgporm forecasts were: steel – 1.7 million tons, pig iron – 1.6 million tons, rolled metal – 1.4 million tons.…
The Splav Corporation has shipped the first 30 kits of safety relief valves to Altaiwagon in advance. By December the corporation will have to supply over 200 kits of valves for new railroad cars. “One of our main goals is not only manufacture in time, but in advance. The valve manufacture is a separate production…
The extraction of energy and coking coal in Ukraine in January-June decreased by 2.9% YoY, to 18.4 million tons, the press service of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry reported. According to the report, 2.37 million tons of the total volume of coal was extracted at state-owned mines, where the overall coal production for…
Head of the government Bakytzhan Sagintayev has visited LLP “KAZ Minerals Bozshakol”, which mines and extracts copper ore. The enterprise was designed to extract 30 million tons of ore per year, to produce 100,000 tons of copper concentrates, and 120,000 ounces of gold concentrates within the first 10 years. 1,032 people work here. Today, the…
VSMPO-Avisma and OAK-Zakupki LLC have concluded long-term contracts on delivery of aluminum and titanium products for major Russian aviation industry enterprises. Avisma will be supplying aluminum alloys wares till 2019 and titanium alloys wares by 2020. All the metal will be delivered to the United Aircraft Building Corporation, which includes among others Sukhoi and Irkut…
Karabashmed has started assembling the automated copper pouring machinery. To transport copper ingots to the warehouse a new turnover device and roller table will be constructed. The new machinery will be tested in early autumn, after that the whole metallurgical shop will be shut down for repairs. All the modernization work is expected to be…
The Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works sintering factory has resumed operation. According to the company technical director Konstantin Nesvet, in the first day the factory produced 2 thousand tons of sinter and kept putting sintering machines into operation. DMK has also put its blast furnace N1M into operation, as all the raw materials have been…