In January-November Interpipe decreased steel output by 10.6% YoY, to 797.4 thousand tons. Pipes output dropped by 11.3%, to 554.9 thousand tons. At the same railroad products manufacture increased by 10.7%, to 188 thousand tons. Sales of steel round billets grew by 25.3%, to 23 thousand tons, and railroad products – by 7.3%, to 183.8…
In January-November Ukrainian by-product coke plants decreased the 6% moisture metallurgical coke output by 5% YoY, to 8.545 million tons. In November the output decreased by 11% MoM, to 745 thousand tons. In December a slight increase is expected. In particular, in November Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Works produced 187 thousand tons of coke, Azovstal…
According to the Spetsstal Association, in January-November the Russian market of stainless steel bars reached 51.99 thousand tons. Zlatoust Electrometallurgical Works was the largest manufacturer with the share of 41%. In 11 months the company increased output by 9% YoY, to 21.5 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
KUZOTsM has been certified for the delivery of welding wire. The company produces 18 grades of welding wire according to GOST 16130-90 and three technical specifications (bronze, brass and copper-nickel alloys). The specialists of the Department of the shipbuilding industry have inspected the company. They witnessed the manufacture of welding wire and selected samples to…
In January-October the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) extracted 31.9 tons of gold, up by 59.5% YoY. The increase is due to the growth of output at Aldansky and Olekminsky districts. The annual output plan for the former is 12.5 tons, and for the latter – 6.1 tons. Silver output grew by 50.2%, to 106.4 tons.…
In October Russia exported 32.5 thousand tons of ferrosilicon, up by 20% MoM and by 27% YoY. Deliveries to Turkey grew 4.5-fold, to 4.7 thousand tons, to the Netherlands – by 22%, to 6.2 thousand tons, and to Japan – by 6%, to 12.7 thousand tons. At the same time Korea decreased imports by 26%,…
In October Russia imported 308.4 tons of ferroniobium, down by 26% MoM and by 45% YoY. Brazil, the main supplier of ferroniobium, has been decreasing deliveries for three months in a row. In 10 months imports totaled 4 thousand tons, up by 15% YoY. In monetary terms since the start of the year the imports…
“You need to carefully approach investigation of incident at Kumtor, and not politicize this tragedy,” Ivan Ippolitov, a Russian expert on Central Asia at StanRadar.com said, commenting on possible consequences of the incident at the largest in Kyrgyzstan Kumtor gold mine. “Taking into account the fact that Kyrgyzstan’s long-standing unremitting public attention is riveted on…
