TUV has audited the welding processes at the Zagorsky Pipe Works. Technological welding processes and pipe repairs have been certified according to EN ISO 15614-1. The welders have been certified according to ISO 9606-1. (Ukrainian metal)
As the result of the coal blockade of Donbass Ukraine could lose some $3.5 billion of revenues a year, as well as 75 thousand jobs and 4 billion UAH budget revenues. According to the Ukrmetallurgprom president Alexander Kalenkov, the blockade also affects energy and metal systems of Ukraine. The local metallurgical complex is a single…
After the coal deliveries from the temporarily occupied regions of Donbass have been blocked, Ukraine has only two countries from which to buy it – USA and Russia, and the latter has just increased its price by 37%. “At first Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Works was shut down following the shelling, then people blocked the…
Enterprises of DTEK private energy holding located on the territory of Donbass temporarily uncontrolled by Ukrainian authorities have been working and will work within the framework of Ukrainian legislation, DTEK Director General Maksym Timchenko said. “The company has been working and will continue to work exclusively within the framework of Ukrainian legislation,” he said. According…
In 2016 Severstal supplied 350 thousand tons of metal to Russian and foreign car-producers in Russia. “The decrease in demand on the Russian automobile market in 2016 totaled 2%. Still Severstal was able to increase its deliveries by 12% YoY. The growth was mostly achieved by substituting high quality imported steels”, Severstal Russian Steel sales…
In 2016 Russia produced 10.3 million tons of steel pipes, down by 9% YoY. According to the Fund on development of pipe industry, consumption dropped by 10%, to 9.7 million tons. The main reason is the decrease in demand for large diameter pipes. Last year it decreased by 35% YoY, to 2.14 million tons. On…
Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works evaluates its daily losses from the Donbass railroad blockade at 4 million UAH. “We have already lost 30% of coke, or 46 thousand tons, 70% of flux limestone, or 80 thousand tons, for our normal operation. The sinter factory no longer receives coal. Our company looses some 4 million…
The blocking of coal deliveries from the uncontrolled territories of Donbass could result in the necessity to import 9 million tons of anthracite and it’s getting more expensive by 30% on world markets, DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko believes. “This is a forced necessity for Ukraine to go to foreign markets to buy anthracite. And this…