According to the National Statistics Bureau of Georgia (Geostat), in January-November pig iron and steel semi-finished products exports to Turkey dropped by 23.5% YoY, to 46 thousand tons valued at $22 million, down by 9.3%. The trade with Turkey in the period was some $1.6 billion, including $216.9 million of exports and $.13 billion of…
The Novosibirsk subsidiary of the First Cargo Company in November increased ferrous metals scrap deliveries to 41.3 thousand tons (680 cars). Throughput grew 1.5-fold YoY, to 63.2 million ton-km. “The positive dynamics has to do with the growth of transportation to NLMK-Ural”, the subsidiary deputy director on transportation Sergey Korchagin said. The cargo was transported…
Evraz ZSMK has started building a new electricity substation with the capacity of 252 megawatt. It will cover the needs of the plant taking into account some major development projects. The construction is expected to cost 1 billion rubles. The substation is scheduled to be constructed in Q4 2019. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-November Ukraine produced 16.84 million tons of rolled metal, up by 3% YoY. Of this, 13.21 million tons, or 78.4%, were exported. In 11 months of 2017 Ukraine exported 13.35 million tons of 16.74 million tons produced, or 79.7%. Semi-finished products accounted for 43.68% of the exports, up from 42.25% last year. The share…
In January-November Ukraine increased pipe output by 5.7% YoY, to 1.019 million tons, including 78.2 thousand tons in November. In particular, Ukrtrubprom enterprises produced 732.7 thousand tons of pipes in 11 months, up by 14.1% YoY, including 55.4 thousand tons in November. Khartsyzsk Pipe Works and Lugansk Pipe Works were idle. Interpipe-NTZ produced 255.6 thousand…
Precious metal prices increased in Azerbaijan on December 26. The price of gold grew by 6.9275 manats, to 2,163.4455 manats per ounce on December 26 compared to the price on December 25. The price of silver went up by 0.0724 manats, to 25.1938 manats per ounce. The price of platinum increased by 5.882 manats, to…
Last year Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant produced 128 thousand tons of copper cathodes, setting a historical record. According to the company CEO Andrei Kudryavtsev, it also produced 155 thousand tons of anodes and over 95 thousand tons of wire rods. This year the company is expected to manufacture 88.5 thousand tons of wire rod (the…
Next year Chelyabinsk Zinc Works intends to increase zinc and alloys output by 4.7% YoY, to 200 thousand tons. This is the maximum capacity of the plant. The further increase of output is as yet impossible. Following a large fire at Electrozinc in October and its subsequent shut down, ChelZinc remains the only UMMC enterprise…