Rusal has announced the completion of Boksitogorsk Alumina Works modernization. Within the project, lasting from October 2015 till May 2017 the works received grinding and processing equipment to increase the corundum output to 79 thousand tons. In particular, the company increased refractory capacities by 6 thousand tons, and abrasive – by 4 thousand tons per…
In January-March TMK Chermet outperformed the scrap procurement target by 26%. TMK enterprises received 494 thousand tons of scrap. The company keeps increasing the share of its own scrap deliveries: in particular it supplied 160.5 thousand tons, up by 10.6% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
The National commission on securities and stock market has stopped amendments to the system of depository accounting on securities of 20 issuers. Among them are the Yuznhiy Mining and Processing Works and Stakhanov Ferroalloy Plant The companies have not disclosed their annual regulatory information on stock market for the last 2 years. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-March the largest pig iron manufacturer of Russia – Tulachermet – received 469.2 million rubles of net losses against the net profit of 147 million rubles in Q1 2016. According to the company statement, its income increased by 53%, to 10.966 billion rubles, sales losses totaled 1.14 billion rubles. In September Tulachermet will put…
The Ministry of energy and coal industry has asked the State Fiscal Service to confiscate all the coal originating from the occupied regions of Donbass. According to the ministry letter, the SFS has to demand the certificate of origin when the coal is imported, as well as take samples to check sulfur contents. The coal…
DTEK is expecting the arrival of a vessel with 75 thousand tons of anthracite from the South African Republic from May 22 through May 28. “Next week we expect the arrival of coal to restock our supplies at TPPs. The vessel with the first coal batch has already made a long way and is passing…
On May 18 KazZinc in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Eastern-Kazakhstan region, caught fire. The accident happened on the territory of the copper shop around 21:41 local time. At 00:25 the fire was extinguished. The size of the fire was 50 square meters. According to the emergency service, there were no casualties. The manufacturing process was not affected by…
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has supplied 1200 tons of rebars for the construction of the embankment in the city of Barnaul. ChMK metal is used for concrete reinforcement of the bank – the first and the most vital part of the project. The length of the embankment will be 500 meters. (Ukrainian metal)