Because of a malfunction of pump machinery one of the horizons at the Novodruzheskaya mine of the state enterprise Lisichanskugol has been flooded. The breakdown occurred on August 5. The pumping of water from the horizon of 840 meters has stopped. Each horizon should have 2 pump machines, but because of underfinancing the mine uses…
In January-July Ukraine increased semi-finished steel products exports by 6.6% YoY, to 4.36 million tons valued at $1.84 billion, down by 6.3%. Carbon steel semi-finished products exports totaled 4.32 million tons for $1.82 billion. The main customers were Italy (31%), Egypt (15.5%) and Algeria (8.2%). In 7 months Ukraine imported 32.2 thousand tons steel semis…
In January-July Ukraine imported 651.3 thousand tons of coke valued at $200.7 million. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main suppliers were Russia (84.4%), Poland (10%) and Egypt (3.7%). Coke exports reached 6.9 thousand tons valued at $1.6 million. The main customers were Belarus (22.4%), Romania (20.2%) and Moldova (17.7%). In July imports totaled…
The minister of industry Pavel Utyupin has presented the new general manager Dmitriy Korchik to the employees of Belarus Iron and Steel Works. His appointment was approved by the head of state on July 29. According to the government, the company has to develop foreign trade. And Korchik has vast experience in this field. Since…
Energomashspetsstal has once again successfully submitted parts for the Kudankulam nuclear power plant and passed the check for the production of billets for the main reactor body machinery of the units Nos. 5 and 6. In particular, the company has submitted 8 billets for steam generator, main circulatory machine and main circulatory pipeline to the…
In July cargo transportation by Sverdlosvk Railroad in the Nizhniy Tagil region totaled 2.9 million tons, up by 4.6% YoY. In 7 months transportation grew by 4.1%, to 19 million tons. In particular, the railroad transported 6.8 million tons of iron ore, down by 4%, 2.5 million tons of non-ferrous ore, down by 1.7%, and…
U.K.-based mining giant Evraz, which operates mainly in Russia, has purchased 714 million rubles worth of multi-purpose machines for coalmines, affiliate Raspadskaya said in a statement on August 13. The machines will be installed on the Raspadskaya and Uskovskaya mines. (Prime/Ukrainian metal)
According to the customs statistics, in January-June Russia exported $206.5 billion worth of products, down by 3.6% YoY. The share of metal and wares was 9.5%, down from 10.4% last year. The share of exports to far foreign countries totaled 8.9% (10.1%), and to the CIS countries – 13.3% (12.8%). The cost of exports dropped…