The Verkhovna Rada has adopted the law “On amendments to some bills of Ukraine on creating conditions to provide state support to coal industry”. The bill No. 9049 was supported by 230 members of the parliament. The law extends till January 1, 2022 the prohibition of the arrest of state coal enterprises accounts. This is…
Billets intended for the construction of the second unit of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (Turkey) were accepted at Energomashspetsstal. The company is the chief supplier of billets of the NPP main machinery. The billets were inspected on December 10 to 13. This year EMSS has shipped 1408 tons of products to Turkey. Now the…
In November-December under the program to modernize its transport fleet Mechel received some 150 open cars valued at 467 million rubles. The main suppliers were Altaivagon and Ruzkhimmash. The cars were both purchased and leased, At present Mechel-Trans operates some 11 thousand pieces of rolling stock. Next year it plans to buy 1 thousand open…
The South-Caucasus Railroad and GPMGold have signed an agreement to organize gold-bearing ore transportation from the Sotskoye deposit to Ararat Gold-Extracting Factory. According to the document, the volume of ore to be transported over 269 km is 1.5 million tons, up by 10% YoY. Last year 1.18 million tons of ore were transported. Since 2008…
On December 14 the state enterprise Lvivugol completely cleared its salary debts to miners for October. The enterprise received payment for coal sales, which was spent to clear the debt. The amount of salary to be paid for October was 147 million UAH. (Ukrainian metal)
Since the start of its operations in December 2013, Severstal-SMC-Vsevolozhsk has processed over 300 thousand tons of metal. The mini-CTL since the start of the year has produced 1.5 million billets, while the laser-welding site manufactured 1 million billets. Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works is the main supplier of rolled metal for processing at Severstal-SMC-Vsevolozhsk.…
In 2018 TMK Chermet invested 120 million rubles in development. In particular, the company has purchased 28 new machines – KamAZs with cranes and manipulators, Volvo bolster-type tractors and semi-trailers, as well Liebherr unloaders. The company has also invested in the modernization of weighing and radiation control machinery, as well as restored over 5.5 thousand…
Severstal Russian Steel has completed the autumn repair campaign at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works and Severstal Bar Works Balakovo. Overall the group has carried out 10 capital repairs valued at 1.8 billion UAH. In particular the blast furnace No. 2, converter No. 3 and mill-2000 have been repaired. The latter allows now producing sheet…