The rail-beam shop of Evraz ZSMK has initiated a project to start producing new lengths of rails and increase R65 100-meter rails output. Investments will total 168 million rubles. The shop will see the construction of the second rail line, after which ZSMK will be able to produce European rails 60E1 and 54E1 with the…
On May 8 there was a cave-in of a concrete construction on the territory of ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih. The cave-in size was 500 square meters. An hour after the cave-in the rescuers were able to retrieve a body. During the accident there were 4 people in the building, three of them were able to escape…
Russian authorities have started denying coalminers new licenses because of the accident and safety risks. MMK and PMH are operating at the Nikitinskiy Verkhniy site in Kuzbass – the former has some 130 million tons of deposits, while the latter intends to start mining at the site with 200 million tons. But the Ministry of…
In January-April Russian seaports throughput of ferrous metals dropped by 0.4% YoY, to 9.68 million tons, with exports at 9.46 million tons, down by 2.1%, and imports at 220.53 thousand tons, up 3.7-fold. Railroad exports to port Novorossiysk totaled 3.58 million tons, down by 8.3% YoY, St. Petersburg – 2.1 million tons, up by 24.7%,…
In January-April Ukraine exported $947.4 million worth of iron ore raw materials, up by 85% YoY. According to the State Fiscal Service, exports reached 12.019 million tons, down by 15.8% YoY, with the share in the total exports revenue at 6.9%. The main buyers of Ukrainian iron ore raw materials were China (30%), Poland (10.6%)…
The quarry No. 7 of Irshansk Mining and Processing Works is switching to processing its own products, stocked during the years of operation. The switch of capacities will be made in July. The volume of the products (some 2.5 million cubic meters) will be enough for 3 years of operation enabling the quarry to produce…
In April Ukraine mined 2.706 million tons of coal, down by 22.3% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal output decreased by 25%, to 2.309 million tons. In January-April coal output dropped by 3.3%, to 13.66 million tons. In 2016 Ukraine mined 40.864 million tons of coal, up by 2.8%…
In January-April Ukraine increased ferrous metals export revenue by 27.4% YoY, to $2.64 billion. Ferrous metals share was 19.26% of the total exports. According to the State Fiscal Service, metal wares exports increased by 25% YoY, to $262.3 million (1.9% of the total exports). Last year ferrous metals exports revenue decreased by 10.3% YoY, to…