In January-June Ukraine imported 10.5 million tons of coal valued at $1.476 billion, down by 4.2% YoY. According to the State Fiscal Service, Russia accounted for 62.4% of deliveries. USA supplied 31% of coal concentrate and Kazakhstan – 4.22%. (Ukrainian metal)
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) took part in the 10th International Industrial Exhibition INNOPROM 2019 in Yekaterinburg. At the exhibition, MMK presented technology, developed at the plant in 2018 for the production of rolled sheet cryogenic steel grade 0H9, which was widely used in the production, storage and transportation of liquefied and compressed natural…
Severstal will construct the ball-rolling mill No. 3 at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. The machine will produce balls with the diameter of 65 to 100 mm. The two operating mills produce balls with the diameter of 20 to 60 mm. Investments will reach 840 million rubles. The capacity of the new mill will be…
In January-May Russia exported 17.519 million tons of ferrous metals, down by 8.8% YoY. According to the Federal Customs Service, without ferroalloys, pig iron, wastes and scrap exports totaled 11.753 million tons, down by 7.6%. Semi-finished carbon steel exports dropped by 5.6%, to 6.417 million tons, and flat carbon steel – by 13.4%, to 2.926…
The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to allocate additional UAH 1 billion in subsidies for state coalmines. Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman stated this at a government meeting on July 10. “Other important issues are subsidies for Ukrainian coalmines, support and payment of wages. We’ve reached a decision to provide additional UAH 1 billion,” said Groysman.…
In January-March Ferrexpo enterprises (Poltava, Yeristovo and Belanovsky Mining and Processing Works) paid 736.4 million UAH of taxes to budgets of various levels. Thus, PGOK paid 599 million UAH, EGOK – 133.9 million UAH and BGOK – 3.5 million UAH. In particular, PGOK paid 76 million UAH to the local budget, 78 million UAH to…
Anatoly Sedykh, owner of OMK, has assessed the Russian market of wheels. “This year we plan to produce 950 thousand wheels, and next year we’ll increase the output by 50 thousand wheels. Evraz will increase output by 550 thousand pieces, to 1.5-1.6 million wheels. Moreover, there is also Interpipe on the Russian market, that’s 170-200…
Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works has invested almost 400 million UAH in the modernization of the technological section No. 13 of its ore-processing factory. This is one of the largest investment projects of UGOK in 2019. The work started last autumn, and so far new equipment has been assembled at almost all sites. Until 2022…
