Signify (previously Philips Lighting) has modernized lighting systems at three Metalloinvest enterprises: Lebedinsky and Mikhailovsky Mining and Steel Works as well as Oskol Electrometallurgical Works. All in all the company has replaced over 5 thousand lamps in 15 shops. As the result of the second stage of the large-scale program to modernize lighting at Metalloinvest…
A record indicator for the resilience of the refractory lining of the main arch of the two-hearth furnace (THF) was achieved at the electric steel smelting shop at Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK). Periclase carbonaceous refractories within the lining of THF No. 32 withstood three full months and 1,265 melts. The previous highest indicator…
Energomashspetsstal has successfully fulfilled a contract to supply supporting rolls to a major Chinese metal company Anyang Steel. Under the contract EMSS has shipped two heavyweight supporting rolls with the combined weight of 230 tons. The rolls will be used in the hot-rolling plate mill-3500. The successful fulfillment of the order will allow EMSS receiving…
In early September Ukrzaliznytsia announced a tender to buy tyres for rolling stock valued at UAH 47.7 million. Two companies participated – Interpipe Ukraine and Intervtorprom. Neither decreased their offers, thus raising suspicion. Journalists of the “Railroad without corruption” project found out that the companies often participated in such trades. This time all the documents…
Karabashmed is completing the assembly of the machinery of the third oxygen station. The new shop is being constructed under the program to modernize the chemical and metallurgical complexes of the enterprise and will increase Ausmelt furnace output. The capacity of the new oxygen station will be 5 thousand cubic meters per hour. The main…
Berezitovy Rudnik LLC, which is developing a gold ore deposit in Amur region, has increased its machinery fleet for 638 million rubles. According to the company statement, it has purchased 17 units of special machinery for the operation at its quarry. In particular, that’s 5 Caterpillar CAT-773 dump trucks with the lifting capacity of 55…
On October 1 Belarus Iron and Steel Works shipped the 1.8-millionth ton of metal cord. This is the result of the operation of steel wire shops Nos. 1 and 2 since the start of the metal wares manufacture at the works. In January-September BMZ produced 68 thousand tons of metal cord. This year the products…
Russian Copper Company has become the owner of the project to develop a major gold-copper-porphyry deposits Malmyzhskoye in Khabarovsk region having purchased the license from IG Copper and Freeport McMoRan Exploration for $200 million. In particular, RCC has bought the operator of the deposits – Amur Minerals, created as a joint venture by IG Copper…