On July 13 the rating agency Fitch Ratings upgraded the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works’s Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘BBB-‘ from ‘BB+’ with Stable Outlook. In its press-release Fitch notes that the rating upgrade reflects MMK’s substantial deleveraging and Fitch’s view that the company’s financial profile will remain conservative, with projected leverage comfortably…
Steel output of Russia’s Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) increased by 3.8% QoQ, to 3.182 million tons in April-June, the company said in a statement July 17. In January-June, steel production rose by 0.6% YoY, to 6.248 million tons. Metal products sales fell by 3.2% YoY, to 5.605 million tons, in January-June, but increased…
Mikhail Volynets, the chairman of the Confederation of Free Unions, reports that over 50 miners of Lisichanskugol (Lugansk region) are striking underground. “In particular 31 miners from the mine named after Kapustin and 21 miners from the Novodruzheskaya mine are on strike”, he wrote on his Facebook page. “The administration has forbidden other miners to…
In June Ukraine produced 1565 thousand tons of steel, down by 7.3% MoM, or by 124 thousand tons. In January-June steel output dropped by 17.2% YoY, or by 2140 thousand tons, to 10273 thousand tons. In May steel manufacture increased by 18.7% MoM, or by 266 thousand tons, to 1689 thousand tons. In 2016 Ukraine…
The metal industry of the Zaporozhye region provides jobs to every fifth citizen – 29.9 thousand people, or 21.3% of the regions employment, in mining – 5.9 thousand people, or 4.2%. In January-June the index of industrial output in metal industry increased by 2.1% YoY, though in mining it fell by 3.4%, mostly because of…
The state enterprise Gosgeonedra has given the license to the Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works in Kropivnitsky (Kirovograd region) to mine for uranium. “I have met with the miners and promised to help. The authorities reacted to my appeal. On July 17, 3 thousand people went to work”, the Radical party leader Oleg Lyashko reported.…
The employees of the state enterprise Lvivugol have expressed no-confidence to the minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik. According to the Independent Miners’ Union chairman Mikhail Volynets, the decision was taken following the systematic non-payment of salary and unfulfilled promises. “As of the Miners’ Day the debts are unlikely to be cleared, thus…
In early June Rosneft and the Pipe Metallurgical Company signed a contract for the delivery of oil pipes, and on July 13 the TMK deputy CEO Vladimir Shmatovich reported its cost – over $3 billion. The contract has been signed for 5.5 years, which will allow TMK to occupy some 40% of the Russian market,…