In July Ukraine increased steel output by 11.4% YoY, to 1.82 million tons, but dropped to the 13th place from the 12th in the Worldsteel rating. The first place is traditionally occupied by China (81.24 million tons, up by 7.2%). Iran took Ukraine’ place, having produced 1.98 million tons of steel, up by 13.2%. In…
In January-June Rusal Bratsk Aluminum Works decreased net profit 1.4-fold YoY, to 1.062 billion rubles. According to the company statement, the revenue dropped by 0.1%, to 47.149 billion rubles. The company does not comment on the reason of the decrease. (Ukrainian metal)
In July Amurstal (ex-Amurmetal) shipped 61 thousand tons of metal, up 6-fold YoY. In January-July sales increased 9.4-fold YoY, to 288.3 thousand tons. This year the company has supplied 95.2 thousand tons of metal to domestic customers and exported 193 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In July railroad deliveries of scrap to Amurstal (ex-Amurmetal) totaled 68.2 thousand tons. The deliveries grew 30-fold YoY. In January-July scrap deliveries to the company increased almost 6-fold YoY, to 292 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
At least 6.5 billion rubles are needed to resume operation of the flooded mines in Partizansk. And the work will last for some 3 years. Suchan-Ugol LLC announced its planes to revive coal industry in Partizanks in January. At present the company is a resident of the Free Port of Vladivostok. The company intends to…
In January-July Amur region extracted 12312 kg of gold, down by 14.5% YoY. The decrease is due to the drop of output at Albyn and Pokrovsk mines of Petropavlovsk Plc. Of the total volume 8703 kg (-19%) were provided by the companies developing ore gold deposits. Alluvial gold output remained on the previous year level…
The arc furnace shop No. 3 of Zlatoust Electrometallurgical Works has produced the corrosion- and heat-resistant steel EP-410-Sh according to technique, developed by the company specialists. The steel was produced using the electroslag remelting. The slabs with the sizes of 150x500x1200 mm and 210x500x1400 mm were produced to be further processed at the sheet-rolling mills.…
In July loading of ferrous metals increased by 8.2% YoY, to 6.6 million tons. Since the beginning of the year the railroad has transported 46.1 million tons of ferrous metals, up by 11.6% YoY. The increase in July was due both to local (+10%) and export (+20%) transportation. Deliveries to Taiwan grew 2.6-fold, to Italy…