Interpipe and Vallourec intend to create a joint venture to produce steel pipes for the European market. The cooperation will not cover pipes for oil and gas extraction. The JV will only produce linear pipes, general usage pipes as well as machine-building products. “Pipes will be finished at the line built at Interpipe Niko Tube…
In January-March Kuzbassrazrezugol mined 11.1 million tons of coal (including almost 1.6 million tons of coking coal), up by 2.5% YoY. Sales grew by 1.8%, to 10.3 million tons. Exports accounted for 70% of sales: 7.3 million tons were exported, and 3 million tons supplied to domestic customers. The company factories processed over 10 million…
In January-March Mechel-Materials produced over 47 thousand tons of mineral additives for concrete, up by 14% YoY. This product is used as an alternative to one of the concrete mix components and is manufactured at the line of the grinding and mixing complex commissioned in 2013. Refractory output grew by 44% YoY, to some 40…
In January-March Kazakhstan produced 1.167 million tons of steel, up by 7.6% YoY, with 431 thousand tons produced in March, up by 10.9% YoY and by 21.3% MoM. Ferroalloys output in March reached 168 thousand tons, up by 9.1% MoM and by 1.1% YoY. In 3 months manufacture grew by 2.5% YoY, to 494 thousand…
In January-February Russia exported 495 thousand tons of pipes valued at $390 million, up by 64% and 2.6-fold YoY respectively. According to the customs statistics, Turkey was the main buyer of Russian pipes with the share of 29%, up 23-fold. Finland imported 27.2% of pipes, up by 22.8%. Large diameter pipes accounted for 65% of…
Gold mining company Nordgold, controlled by Russian businessman Alexei Mordashov, has launched construction of a processing plant – the key facility of the Gross gold mine in the republic of Yakutia, the company said in a statement on April 19. The plan’s projected processing capacity is 12 million tons of ore per year. The company…
RUSAL has met with Chinese companies and traders this week to discuss purchases of alumina and sales of aluminum as the U.S. sanctions freezed out the Russian producer from markets around the world, Bloomberg reported on April 19, citing people with knowledge of the talks. RUSAL is looking for alternative sources of alumina, the raw…
In a letter sent to KVV Liepājas metalurgs administrator Vita Dika, Privatization Agency’s subsidiary FeLM board member Jānis Rībens and CItadele Bank on 17 April, the consortium, which includes companies like British Steel, Greybull Capital and Estonian company Baltic Metal Holding, affirmed its interest in purchasing all assets of the insolvent company. According to available…
