In 2017 Ukraine exported 1.3 million tons of pig iron and 200 thousand tons of rolled metal to US. “Rolled metal accounted just for 1.3% of all Ukrainian metal exports. On the other hand, this is a perspective market, and our exports could have grown. So this is a bad news for us”, Ukrmetallurgprom president…
Sergey Belenky, chairman of the Federation of Metallurgists of Ukraine, believes that the US antidumping duties of 25% will hit Interpipe the most. “In 2017 Interpipe accounted for 19% of pipe exports to US. Other market participants will experience much lower risks”, he said. According to him, last year Ukraine also supplied 49 thousand tons…
Evraz ZSMK has produced a trial batch of rails of the new category – DT400 IK. The rails can be used under the most sever conditions. Previously such rails were not produced in Russia. After all the certification documents are received, a batch of rails will be sent for tests. (Ukrainian metal)
The Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Ukraine is disappointed by a decision of the European Commission (EC) to reject price commitments proposed by Metinvest Group and other hot-rolled steel exporters in exchange for non-applying the previously introduced anti-dumping duties to them. “We are very disappointed by this decision of Europe, especially in the context…
In January-February Chukotka Autonomous District mined 135.7 thousand tons of coal, up by 10% YoY. The increase in output has to do with the growth of coalmining at Beringpromugol LLC. In 2 months the company shipped 95.3 thousand tons of coal, up 1.5-fold YoY. Shakhta Ugolnaya also mines for coal in the region. Its output…
The Uralsky Engineering Center has supplied to Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works and installed the new system of press management, as well as the complex to purify liquids and the system to lubricate the machine. “The cost of the investment project exceeded 48 million rubles. The modernization of the machine improved its productivity, product quality…
Rusal and the Institute of light materials and techniques have developed a unique alloy on the basis of Al-Mg-Sc, the best advantage of which is the 3-fold decrease of scandium contents, while its increased parameters, usual for scandium-containing aluminum alloys are preserved. Thus, the decrease in cost makes this alloy widely accessible. The work on…
In 2018 the last year tendencies will persist on the steel pipes market: OCTG pipes demand will be increasing because of the growth of drilling. ChTPZ intends to increase its share in the supplies of pipes for construction of compressor plants. “This year the group plans to retain its output volumes on the previous year…
