Militants decided to supply coal, mined on the territory of the so-called Lugansk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization created and supported by Russia, to Turkey. “According to the representatives of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhasia, who visited Lugansk on January 29, businesses from Abkhasia and Turkey concluded agreements on the delivery of coal mined in…
In 2017 Russky Ugol increased sales of coal from the Stepnoy pit in Khakasia by 8% YoY. The company delivered 3.2 million tons of coal to local companies and abroad. Russky Ugol was created in 2002. Its manufacturing assets are situated in Amur region, Republic of Khakasia and Krasnoyarsk region. The company comprises 6 coal…
The United Aircraft Corporation and the special economic zone Titanium Vale have concluded an agreement to create a shop to machine-process titanium alloy wares. The shop will increase titanium manufacture in the city of Verkhnyaya Salda. Thus, Russian aircraft constructors will be able to decrease prime cost. (Ukrainian metal)
The railroad shop of Gaysky Mining and Processing Works has received a new locomotive produced by Shadrinsk Assembly Works. “The modernization program allows us to improve operation of the locomotive, as well as decrease fuel usage and pollution”, the company railroad shop director Alexander Makogon reported. In particular, savings in fuel reach 20%. (Ukrainian metal)
Stevedore company Terminal Astafiev located in Russia’s Far East, has cut its coal handling by 95,500 tons, or by about 50%, to reduce handling of dust-forming cargoes and to improve environment in the city of Nakhodka, the Primorsky region’s government said in a statement on February 9. The region’s acting governor Andrei Tarasenko and the…
To fulfill the order of a major space industry company Zlatoust Electrometallurgical Works decided to start developing a new alloy. The first stage was the smelting of a trial batch of the HN43BMTU-VD alloy in the open induction furnace. After all the tests the company was able to manufacture iron-nickel based heat-resistant alloy in the…
In January DTEK Energo supplied 1.4 million tons of gas-generating coal to its thermal power plants, up by 10.4% YoY. According to the company press service, anthracite deliveries decreased 3.3-fold YoY, to 207 thousand tons. At the same time, the current need in anthracite dropped because of the switching to gas coal. As of today,…
In January Ukraine increased coal imports 1.8-fold, or by 1 million tons YoY, to 2.25 million tons. According to the State Fiscal Service, the value of the coal imported was $281.16 million, up by 64.5% YoY ($170.897 million). In particular, Russia supplied $170.579 million worth of coal (60.67%), USA – $91.017 million (32.37%), Canada –…
