Russia: Mechel launches steel trade online store

Mechel reports launching an online store to market the company’s rolls. Mechel Service LLC’s online store offers a wide range of rolls, including over 40,000 articles in 49 categories such as flat and section rolls, pipes, hot- and cold-rolled products, hardware, stainless rolls and others. The store’s website is www.mechelservice.ru. The website also shows updated…

Russia: MMK output down in Q4 2018

The steel output of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) fell by 7.8% QoQ, to 3.112 million tons in October-December 2018, the company said in a statement. Cast iron output decreased by 2.4%, to 2.558 million tons. In 2018, the company’s steel output went down by 1.5%, to 12.664 million tons, and cast iron output…

Russia: platinum output down in December 2018

Russia’s output of unrefined and semi-refined or powder platinum and platinum group metals decreased by 38.4% YoY and by 19.2% MoM in December 2018, the Federal State Statistics Service said in a statement without disclosing absolute figures. Silver output fell by 17.4% YoY and by 8.9% MoM. In 2018, the output of platinum and platinum…

Ukraine: scrap prices to drop in February 2019

The state enterprise Ukrpromvneshexpertisa forecasts that in February ferrous scrap metal prices on the local market will drop by 3.4-16%, to 5.7-7.9 thousand UAH per ton. Until mid-February some drastic change of price is not expected, as rolled metal manufacturers will only begin testing opportunities to raise prices for their products. In March the increase…