In February steel output in CIS dropped by 0.5 YoY, to 7.675 million tons. According to World Steel Association, in January-February output decreased by 1%, to 16.165 million tons. In February Russia produced 5.15 million tons of steel, down by 5.7% YoY, and 10.85 million tons in 2 months, down by 4.8%. Ukraine in February…
PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih will allocate 8 million UAH for environmental projects implementation in Kriviy Rih and Dnipropetrovsk region. These projects are included into city and regional programs aimed at environmental issues elimination and environment conditions improvement. PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih will finance implementation of new dust suppression technologies on dumps and industrial sites, purchase…
Gold production is set to commence in the third quarter of 2018 at the Amulsar gold mine in south-central Armenia, said Lydian International Ltd, the Canadian mining group. Lydian’s management expects mining within the Amulsar project to produce 225,000 gold ounces annually over ten years and reports that it is currently completing construction of the…
The state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works has ordered Svit Stali LLC the delivery of pig iron and steel valued at 20.97 million UAH. This year the company will supply iron shots at 223450 UAH per ton from Netrika LLC and steel milling balls with the diameter of 60, 80 and 120 mm according…
At the meeting on March 29 shareholders of Donetskkoks decided to liquidate the company. In 2017 Donetskkoks decreased losses 11-fold YoY, to 2.5 million UAH. Metinvest reported on the threat of losing control over operation of its enterprises in the Russia-seized lands of Donbass, including over Donetskkoks, on March 15, 2017. (Ukrainian metal)
Kosaya Gora Iron and Steel Works has concluded a 3-year contract for the delivery of high-carbon ferromanganese to NLMK. The companies have been cooperating for a long while. Being the strategic supplier, KMZ provides NLMK with 80-90% of its ferromanganese needs. The volume of delivery, stipulated by the contract, exceeds 50% of the company output.…
Mine constructors of Gaysky GOK have started another stage of the shaft reconstruction at the Ekspluatatsionnaya mine – reinforcing. In a way, this is a construction of a vertical railroad for the skips and cages. The reinforcing is carried out at the depth of 910-1420 meters. At present the mining is carried out at the…
Severstal – Bar Works Balakovo has successfully certified the A500SN rebar sections with the diameter of 8-40 mm. The need to obtain the new certificate has to do with the coming into effect of the new GOST 34028-2016 “Rebars for ferroconcrete structures” on January 1, 2019. At present the works supplies its products mostly to…