Russia and Nigeria are discussing joint finishing of construction of Africa’s largest steel plant Ajaokuta, Nigerian ambassador to Russia Steve Davies Ugbah reported. “The president of Nigeria will come to Russia with a large delegation on October 23–24. They will consider singing contracts in various spheres, including mineral production, infrastructure development, contracts in the oil,…
In January-August Russia imported 5.097 million tons of ferrous metals, up by 0.3% YoY, with 0.662 million tons imported in August, down by 18.7% MoM. According to the Federal Customs Service, the import of ferrous metals not counting pig iron, ferroalloys, wastes and scrap totaled 4.079 million tons, up by 2.3%. In August purchases decreased…
Ukrmetallurgprom believes that in November Ukraine will produce 1.75 million tons of steel. Pig iron manufacture is expected on the level of 1.7 million tons and rolled metal – 1.6 million tons. As of October 9, 15 out of 21 blast furnaces, 8 out of 9 open-hearth furnaces, 11 out of 16 converters, 5 out…
In September Ukrainian metal companies consumed 140 million cubic meters of natural gas, down by 7% MoM. In 9 months gas consumption totaled 1.4 billion cubic meters, up by 1% YoY. Electricity consumption in September dropped by 9% MoM, to 890 million kW-h, and in 9 months – by 2% YoY, to 8.62 billion kW-h.…
In September scrap procurement grew by 6% MoM, to 238 thousand tons. Of this local metal companies received 235 thousand tons, up by 4%, and 3 thousand tons were exported (no exports in August). In January-September of 2.381 million tons of scrap procured (down by 13% YoY) 2.34 million tons were supplied to local metal…
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant has confirmed its correspondence to the ISO 9001:2015 for the quality management system, ISO 14001:2015 for the environment management system and ISO 45001:2018 for the labor safety management system. The latter is new for PFK. Moreover, the company is one of the first in Ukraine to have successfully passed the corresponding audit.…
