Sukhaya Balka and Duferco have concluded an agreement on the delivery of iron sinter ore valued at 2.5 billion UAH ($93 million). The shareholders of the company on April 11 have to approve of the contract concluded on January 9. The shareholders also have to prolong 4 contracts on ore delivery. The value of each…
Volgograd Iron and Steel Works Krasniy Octyabr intends to put into operation the arc steel furnace No. 5 this month. “In March the works produced over 10 thousand tons of metal. In Q2 the capacity loading is planned on the March level. And the repaired arc furnace No. 5 will help achieve this”, the company…
Karelsky Okatysh will modernize one of its main transportation lines – the K-17 conveyer, which is able to transport 3.2 thousand tons of ore per hour. “It was partially modernized in February, when an old engine was replaced with a more powerful one, which increased the speed and efficiency”, the company said. The second stage…
In 2018 Nadezhdinsky Iron and Steel Works received 1.32 billion rubles of net profit, up from 610.7 million rubles in 2017. This is also the highest result so far. At the same time, in 2016 the company received 1.2 billion rubles of net losses, in 2015 – 2 billion rubles and in 2014 – 4…
This year Severniy Mining and Processing Works intends to buy 16 BelAZ trucks. 3 of them have already been commissioned. In one shift each dump truck will be able to transport around 800 cubic meters of rock. Until the end of the year the works will be operating 91 dump trucks. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-March Ferrexpo produced 2.538 million tons of pellets, down by 1.8% YoY. The decrease is due to the drop of 62% iron content pellets output – to 107.5 thousand tons from 149.9 thousand tons. At the same time the manufacture of 65% iron content pellets fell by 0.2%, to 2.431 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2018, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) contributed a total of 8.967 billion rubles to environmental causes, up by 27% YoY. Most of the investment in environmental safety went towards the construction of environmental facilities. Last year, this effort received 5.845 billion rubles. As a whole, MMK’s Environmental Program for 2018 consisted of 84…
NLMK Group has appointed Dmitry Kholkin to the newly created position of NLMK Group’s Vice President for Digital Transformation and IT. Previously, he served as Vice President for Digital Transformation. The new function is formed by merging digital transformation and IT practices. Elena Demyanova, NLMK Group’s former Vice President for the Development of Information Systems,…