Severstal has supplied around 40 thousand tons of various rolled metal for the construction of all the 12 stadiums, which will host the FIFA World Cup. When constructing the arenas, Severstal’s sheets and rebars were used. Metal was supplied both from the manufacturing site in the city of Cherepovets and from Severstal Bar Works Balakovo.…
StalTrans, a subsidiary of the Russian railway operator Freight One, has signed a 467.771-million ruble agreement to buy rail wheels from Interpipe-M, a unit of Ukraine’s Interpipe, Freight One said in a statement. Interpipe-M is to supply the rail wheels by July. Freight One also said that it planned to buy rail wheels from StalTrans…
Metalloinvest has signed a long-term loan agreement with Credit Agricole CIB (France). According to the company statement, the loan of 72 million euros will be attracted for 12 years under the Euler Hermes Aktiengesellschaft guarantees. Metalloinvest intends to spend the money to purchase Takraf GmbH machinery. The machinery will be stationed at the Lebedinsky Mining…
NLMK Group, a global steel company, is designing equipment to implement stamp charging process at Altai-Koks. This will boost coke quality and reduce the cost of its production through use of more cost-efficient grades of coking coals. Stamping technology is under implementation at coke plant No. 5, launched in 2006 with a design capacity of…
Local residents are dissatisfied with the development of Ishtamberdy gold field in Chatkal district of Jalal-Abad region. They held a protest. Residents are unhappy that the developer Full Gold Mining does not comply with environmental standards. As the State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use reported, officials intend to visit the field and sort…
The Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a new decree on scrap procurement. Uzvtortsvetmet was ordered in two months to organize in all cities and district centers special points of acceptance of scrap from individuals. All the equipment containing ferrous and non-ferrous metals from January 1, 2019 will have to be submitted to Uzmetcombinat and Uzvtortsevtmet…
A miner died at the Rodina mine of the Krivoy Rog Iron Ore Industrial Complex. The 32-year old employee was carrying out hazardous work. According to the police, the preliminary reason of death is the electric shock. (Ukrainian metal)
The channel capacity of the Kamysh-Zarya – Volnovakha route, through which raw materials are delivered to iron and steel works in Mariupol, is still below the desired level. “The Mariupol direction is still problematic. Only 18-22 pairs of cargo trains per day pass there, while the full operation of Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works…