In early October Electrostal Tyumeni started industrial manufacture of hot-rolled equal angles with the thickness of 3 and 4 mm. The first batch has already been supplied to customers on the domestic market. In September the company started manufacturing equal angles with the size of 40×40 mm and the thickness of 3, 4 and 5…
In January-September Almalyk Iron and Steel Works manufactured $1.4 billion worth of metal products, up by 131.5% YoY. Cathode copper manufacture grew by 127.2%, metallic zinc – by 122.5%, gold – by 106.5% and silver – by 164.9%. This year the copper-smelting plant set a new record – 100 thousand tons of cathode copper were…
In January-September Priisk Solovievsky produced 2462.5 kg of gold, down by 2.2% YoY. Gold extracted from deposits in Amur region accounted for 2194.7 kg, including 1495 kg of alluvial gold and 699.7 kg of ore gold, down by 3.4% and by 6.6% respectively. The drop is due to the gold content decrease. In Zabaikalye region…
Arktik Palladiy, a joint venture (JV) between Norilsk Nickel and Russian Platinum, will gradually raise its production to 120 tons of platinum group metals per year, making it the world’s top producer, President of Russian Platinum Musa Bazhayev said at a meeting of the Russian-Saudi economic council. “We expect to get the first product in…
Last week the price of one ounce of gold decreased by 17.748 manats or by 1%. Accordingly, the average price of one ounce of gold stood at 2,552.3902 manats. The price of one ounce of silver grew by 0.0057 manats or by 0.02%, to 29.94 manats. The price of one ounce of platinum went up…
In September the Manufacture of Steel Structures, a part of Uralelectromed, galvanized a record-high volume of 4700 tons of metal structures. The result exceeded the average monthly level by 200-300 tons. The hot dip-galvanizing department is capable of galvanizing metal structures with the sizes of 12.5×1.4×3.2 meters and the weight of 3 tons with the…
The Center of metal products standardization and certification the Central Scientific and Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy named after Bardin has prepared the second edition of the interstate standard GOST 5640 “Steel. Metallographical method of rolled metal microstructure evaluation”. The standard is being developed to replace the GOST 5640-68 in order to include a number…
In January-September Interpipe Steel produced 690 thousand tons of steel, down by 6.5% YoY. According to the company, in September steel output totaled 55 thousand tons. In 2018 Interpipe Steel produced 973 thousand tons of steel, up by 13.8% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)