Gold, silver and platinum prices decreased in Azerbaijan on May 21 compared to the prices of May 20. The price of gold dropped by 1.3515 manats, to 2,168.6475 manats per ounce. The price of silver fell by 0.0007 manats, to 24.5459 manats per ounce. The price of platinum went down by 6.154 manats, to 1,393.915…
In January-April, Kazakhstan increased copper output by 8.8% YoY, to 149.5 thousand tons. Raw zinc manufacture totaled 108.2 thousand tons (-1.5%), zinc concentrate – 69.2 thousand tons (-34.2%), aluminum – 528.7 thousand tons (-9.1%), ferroalloys – 706.8 thousand tons (+6.7%), lead concentrate – 29.8 thousand tons (-3.6%) and lead – 45.1 thousand tons (-12.5%). Gold…
The melting-foundry complex of VSMPO-Avisma has disassembled its Retek plasma furnace melting chamber. This is the largest plasma furnace in the world. Preparatory work lasted for 3 days. Now the chamber has to be moved out of the shop. In the shop No. 41 the company will separate ferrous metal of the chamber from the…
Bar Works Balakovo has set a new record of using steel ladles. The previous record of 127 meltings on average (2018) was exceeded to 133 meltings. At the same time the maximum number of meltings reached 201 (189 in November 2018). This is a record not only for the works, but for all other Russian…
Moscow Industrial Bank wants to declare the Krasniy Sulin Iron and Steel Works bankrupt. The works owner Ramzan Isayev plans to invest 52 billion rubles in the rolling line with the capacity of 1.5 million tons of metal per year. The investor owes the bank over 2.11 billion rubles, while the project is still in…
Ferrexpo AG will squeeze out Poltava Mining and Processing Works shares from minority shareholders. The price of each share will be 34.24 UAH with their nominal cost of 9.96 UAH. Ferrexpo AG owns 189,313.087 million ordinary shares, or 99.11% of PGOK. (Ukrainian metal)
Ukraine has started an antidumping investigation on the import of steel seamless hot-deformed pipes from China. The investigation was initiated by Interpipe Niko Tube. The Ministry of Economical Development and Trade has been tasked with the investigation. (Ukrainian metal)
Pavel Vasev, Head of Procurement at Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), became the winner of the “Best Procurement Director” award for 2019. Large-scale changes in procurement activities carried out at MMK have significantly improved the efficiency of the company’s supply chain. This is the second year in a row that the rating of procurement…