Inna Ponomareva has become a new CEO of the metal trading company Firma Vicant. She has previously worked as the sales director. Grigory Nosko, who headed the company prior to Ponomareva, left Vikant. In 2017 Vikant imported 121 thousand tons of rolled metal and started cooperating with Metinvest in pipes purchases. This year the company…
In 2017 Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works received 5.392 billion rubles of net profit, down 2.8-fold YoY. Revenue grew by 10.7%, to 118.567 billion rubles, domestic sales accounted for 106.303 billion rubles. Gross profit fell by 26,6%. Sales profit dropped almost 2-fold, to 6.965 billion rubles. The company accounts receivable increased from 25.475 billion rubles…
Polymetal has concluded the first agreement on the sale of concentrate from Kyzyl. The purchaser of the concentrate is one of the current trade partners of Polymetal’s, which for the past two years has acquired a considerable volume of concentrate from Maysky. According to the agreement, the buyer has to purchase at least 50% of…
Novgorodsky Iron and Steel Works has begun the final stage of copper electrolysis shop scrap-conveyor reconstruction. The conveyor transports anode remnants from the electrolysis shop to the copper smelting shop. Earlier all was done manually. Scrap was unloaded from the height of 1.7 meters, which made the process difficult and dangerous. The conveyor will be…
The researchers from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy have found gold-containing minerals at the Maletoyvayam deposits in Kamchatka. The prospecting was carried out at the order of the research company Elekhim. In particular, the new type of mineral contained compounds of gold with tellurium, sulfur and selenium. Gold can be found with silver impurities,…
Ingalinskaya-2 Mining and Processing Factory in South Yakutia has increased its coal processing capacities to 2.5 million tons per year. Concentrate output depends on the coal grade – from 40% to 63%. “The project capacity of the factory was 1.5 million tons. Last year we reached 1.7 million tons. The factory was put into operation…
Severstal has received electric compressors for Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works from Hanwha Techwin (South Korea). The cost of the investment project is around 1 billion rubles. With the help of the new machinery CherMK will decrease electricity usage by 27%. According to the contract, machinery was accepted last year at the Hanwha Techwin works.…
In 2017 Rusal increased revenue from $7.983 billion to $9.969 billion. Mostly because of the aluminum price rise by 22.7% (to $1968 per ton), increase in the primary aluminum and alloys sales by 3.6% and the growth of the high added value products sales from 44% to 47.3%. EBITDA grew by 42.4%, to $2.12 billion,…