The Ferrum Company has started selling hot-rolled flanged beams with the size of 18-50 mm. The company also carries stocks of other beams made of S255 and S345 steel. The availability of new products will allow completely covering the need of rolled metal from construction companies for the manufacture of metal structures. (Ukrainian metal)
Zagorsky Pipe Works and POSCO (South Korea) have agreed on the delivery of 60 thousand tons of rolled sheet for the manufacture of pipes. The price of the deal is not disclosed. The companies started cooperating in April 2017, when ZTZ bought the first 20 thousand tons of rolled sheet from South Korea. In December…
In 2017 Russia imported 779 thousand tons of hot-rolled sheet with the thickness of over 10 mm, up 2-fold YoY. According to the customs statistics, Ukraine supplied 31.7% of the total volume, down by 17% YoY. Austria increased exports almost 9-fold, to 31.4%, followed by Germany (20.7%, up 9-fold). South Korea and France increased their…
The Smart Maritime Group has won a tender to supply a thickening tank to Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works. The project will start in March. Its cost will amount to 175 million UAH. The designer of the thickener is Engineering Dobersek GmbH (Germany). The total weight of the metal structure with 3 tanks of 10.9…
Glencore will resume buying aluminum from Rusal in 2019, but the volumes will decrease considerably, as the Russian company wants to take advantage of the growing demand for high added value products. Volumes are expected to decrease by 25-50% from 14.5 million tons. The deal concluded in 2012 was estimated at $47 billion. The new…
The State Property Fund of Ukraine plans to hold an auction to sell 68.009% of Zaporozhye Aluminum Works in May. In December 2017 it was planned to sell the stake in February. The corresponding changes to the schedule of sales have been envisioned in the Fund decree dated February 20 and published in the “Vedomosti…
UzBuild-2018, an international construction exhibition in which Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is participating, started in Tashkent. Uzbekistan is one of MMK’s key markets in the CIS. In 2017 MMK shipped over 300,000 tons of finished steel products to Uzbek consumers, accounting for nearly 80% of the company’s sales in Central Asia. At the exhibition…
The state enterprise Ukrpromvneshexpertisa forecasts that in February deliveries of ferrous metals scrap to metal companies will decrease by 4.55% MoM, or by 10 thousand tons, to 210 thousand tons. According to the enterprise deputy director Yuri Dobrovolsky, last month traders and procurers tried to faster unload their warehouses in order not to sell scrap…
