In January-June Ukraine mined 16.495 million tons of coal, down by 10.5% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal mining decreased by 8.2%, to 3.205 million tons and power-generating coal – by 11.1%, to 13.293 million tons. In June coal output dropped by 1.7% YoY, to 2.599 million tons. The…
The president of Russia Vladimir Putin has marked the environmental initiatives of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) with a letter, sent to the company’s employees, in the course of the celebrations of the Day of the Metallurgist. The letter from the Russian president reads: “I thank you for the active part you have played…
Russia’s output of unrefined and semi-refined or powder platinum decreased by 10% YoY and by 15.3% MoM in June, the Federal State Statistics Service said in a statement without disclosing absolute figures. Silver output fell by 17% YoY, but rose by 16.4% MoM. In January-June output of platinum grew by 1.4% YoY and of silver…
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) will continue exports of metal products to the E.U. as usual after the union’s introduction of temporary protective duties, a representative of the company reported. “We expect the tariff quotas to allow us to continue supplies as usual,” the NLMK representative said. The E.U. earlier introduced protective tariff quotas on…
In January-June Kazakhmys produced 123.056 thousand tons of copper cathodes, down by 2% YoY. The copper contents in the ore dropped from 0.94% to 0.93%. In mid-term Kazakhmys intends to increase copper output to 250 thousand tons per year. (Ukrainian metal)
In H1 Severstal e-store customers placed orders for over 1 million tons of steel products, up 2.5-fold YoY. In the whole 2017 the e-store received 1.3 million tons worth of orders. The company is developing the e-store. For example, now it is possible to order the delivery via water transport. It is planned that by…
According to the Association of the stele construction development (ARSS), in Q1 metal structures for construction output increased by 10% YoY. Since 2011 the growth has reached 29%. The Far Eastern Federal District demonstrated the highest growth – 2-fold. Since the beginning of the year the number of construction agreements concluded in Russia has increased…
In June the Volgogradsky subsidiary of Severstal Steel Ropes produced 624 tons of large diameter ropes. The ropes were produced on the new machine commissioned in 2017. The machine produces 6- and 8-strand steel ropes with the diameter of 28 to 100 mm used in mines and on excavators. “The output was 2 times as…
