NLMK Group, an international steelmaking company with operations in Russia, the USA and the European Union, has begun hot testing of its new turbine generator unit No. 5 at its Cogeneration Plant in Lipetsk. Once commissioned the new generator, which has a capacity of 60 MW, will improve the reliability of the energy supply, reduce…
In 2017, 12.5 million tons of Kazakhstan coal were shipped for utility needs. “In 2017 coal production was higher by 8.3% than in 2016. 12.5 million tons were supplied for household and utility needs”, said Minister of Energy Kanat Bozumbayev when visiting Pavlodar region. According to Bozumbayev, in Kazakhstan there is a stable growth of…
Residents of Toguz-Toro district demand to stop construction of a gold processing plant, the head of the staff of the district administration Tabyldy Saminov reported. On February 7 residents of the district held a rally with one demand: to suspend the activities of GL Makmal Developing, which was building the gold processing plant. The protesters…
Volnogorsk Mining and Processing Works has ordered Energy Trade Group LLC the supply of natural gas valued at 149.01 million UAH. This year the company will supply 15.6 million cubic meters of gas valued at 9552 UAH per 1 thousand cubic meters. The price of the agreement is 0.4% below the expected cost of the…
This year steel consumption in EU is expected to grow by 1.9% YoY, just like last year. According to Eurofer, in 2019 growth demand for steel will drop to 1.4%. In 2017 steel imports to EU decreased by 1% because of the trade protection measures. Thus, imports from Ukraine dropped by 31%, from Russia –…
In 2017 Severstal delivered some 180 thousand tons of rolled metal to Russian manufacturers of household appliances and industrial packaging, up by 10% YoY. The increase has to do with the growth of the client base and consumption. “Deliveries to Russian manufacturers of household appliances increased last year by 33%, to 58 thousand tons. Having…
In 2017 Seaport St Petersburg handled 6.9 million tons of cargo, up by 4% YoY. According to the port press service, ferrous metals throughput increased by 20%, to 3.6 million tons, while that of non-ferrous metals dropped by 9%, to 1.4 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
ChTPZ has become the only supplier of low-temperature large diameter pipes for the construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline. In January-May ChTPZ will ship some 3 thousand tons of LDP to Nord Stream 2 AG. All the pipes will be made of low temperature steel, thus the operating temperature could be as low as…