A new enterprise started operating in the Kurgan industrial park – Kurgan Works of Energy Techniques. The works will produce steel pipes in PPU and PPM insulation, as well as pipe joints. Until the end of the year the company intends to produce some 23 thousand meters of pipes. Investments in the project totaled 76…
Aluminum giant UC RUSAL and energy and metals holding En+ Group of the Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska can reregister in a special administrative zone in Kaliningrad until the end of 2019, Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin declared. “We are working on this and will do all we can on our side,” Oreshkin said. Oreshkin added…
In April, Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works increased sales by 2.4% YoY, to 780 thousand tons. In January-April sales dropped by 0.4%, to 3.3 million tons. Sales to domestic customers grew by 25%, to 2.24 million tons, while exports fell by 30.4%, to 1.05 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
Ukraine has prolonged the antidumping investigation on the imports of rods (rebars) of carbon and alloyed steel from Belarus and Moldova. The interdepartmental commission found out that there was a need to prolong the investigation, begun on July 2, 2018, to 15 months. The decision was taken on May 14 and came into effect on…
The state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works has ordered the Trading House Eco-Service LLC the delivery of sulfur valued at 128.58 million UAH. This year the company will have to supply 24 thousand tons of granulated sulfur or sulfur lumps with the content of not less than 99.95% at $202 or 5325 UAH per…
The director of the Yuzovka Iron and Steel Works (YUMZ) Alexander Petrushechkin has committed suicide. The works is situated in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization created and supported by Putin’s Russia. It is said that Petrushechkin shot himself from his guard’s gun. In January he tried to commit suicide, by striking himself…
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…