Additional expenses of Interpipe because of the increase of electricity cost amount to some $1 million per month. The company CEO Fadi Khraibe says de facto there is no electricity market in Ukraine. “The market presupposes competitive demand and supply. But now there is a system that is trying to get closer to the market.…
AVA-Trade LLC aluminum works was not able to contest additional taxes of over 23.9 million rubles and a fine of 1.4 million rubles. The company filed a suit to the court demanding to cancel the decision of the Tax service. The service found violations of the tax legislation and decided to impose additional taxes of…
In July Russia exported 321.3 tons of flat copper, up by 51.5% MoM and by 20.7% YoY. Deliveries to Belarus remained almost unchanged at 128 tons, while exports to Ukraine grew 2-fold, to 111 tons. In January-July exports totaled 1.7 thousand tons, down by 4.1% YoY. In monetary terms since the start of the year…
In January-May Russia increased gold manufacture by 9.59% YoY, to 101.44 tons. In particular, gold extraction totals 80.99 tons, up by 11.74%, secondary gold – 13.1 tons, down by 4.59%, and auxiliary gold – 7.35 tons, up by 15.93%. Silver output dropped by 9.32%, to 383.654 tons, including 175.39 tons of extracted silver, down by…
Metalloinvest will buy its bonds with the maturity in 2020 earlier than planned. The decision has been taken in order to optimize the group loan portfolio. The bonds had to mature in April 2020. But Metalloinvest decided to take advantage of its make-whole option. The funds to buy the bonds will come from a new…
A delegation of Azerbaijan Industrial Corporation OJSC and its subsidiary Azeraluminium LLC took part in the International Aluminum 2019 conference held in Athens. The conference is the biggest European event dedicated to the aluminum market and is of great importance from the point of view of discussing strategies and development paths in this market, as…
Gold mining company Centerra Gold Inc. announced that Michael S. Parrett would succeed Stephen A. Lang as independent Chair of the Board of Directors effective October 1. Stephen Lang, who joined Centerra’s Board of Directors in 2008 and had held the Chair position since 2012, would remain as a board member and support an orderly…
In July Russia imported 1.3 tons of tantalum, including scrap, up by 138.5% MoM and by 0.2% YoY. Deliveries from China increased from 51 tons to 395 tons, and from Kazakhstan – from 485 tons to 880 tons. In January-July tantalum imports totaled 5.4 tons, down by 35.43% YoY. In monetary terms since the start…
