The U.S. Senate’s rejection of a bid to block the easing of sanctions on Russian aluminum company Rusal PLC will have the practical effect of reducing pressure on an Armenian aluminum mill, reported the Armenian National Committee of America. The mill, owned by Armenal, employs 700 in Yerevan, indirectly supports thousands of area families, and…
Severstal Steel Decisions has produced an additional set of crane beams weighing over 72 tons to be used to replace crane machinery over the mill-2000 at the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. The structures have non-standard sizes: the length of the main beam is 2 meters, while the weight is over 10 tons. This is…
Last year Uzmetallsavdo sold 30-35 thousand tons of various metal products. This year it is planned to reach 70 thousand tons. The company is a major metal supplier. Its clients are Almalyk and Navoi metal plants, as well as construction companies. In November 2018 the company celebrated its 80th anniversary. (Ukrainian metal)
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works, without shutting down manufacture, is finishing assembling the coil-rewinding machine with the capacity of 650 thousand tons per year. The total cost of the project is 1.2 billion rubles. The commission of the machine is scheduled for February, and it is exCherepovets Iron and Steel Workspected to reach the design…
The Verkhovna Rada committee on industrial policy has unanimously supported the draft bill No. 9474, which presupposes the increase of the scrap export duty from 42 euro to 58 euro per ton for 3 years. According to the committee chairman Victor Galasyuk, the new “metal law” will liquidate the raw material shortage for the metal…
A ceiling of the unused culture house belonging to ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih between the third floor and the roof with the size of 1 thousand square meters collapsed. One person was injured. The total size of the floor is 2 thousand square meters. The accident happened on January 15. (Ukrainian metal)
Oskol Electrometallurgical Works managing director Alexander Tischenko and the driver of the works Vitaliy Yumashev have perished in the collision of a Lexus with two other cars. The accident happened on January 15. After the collision all three cars exploded. The accident took the life of 8 people. Tischenko has been working at NLMK since…
Yakutia has entered the top-3 gold-mining regions in Russia. For the first time since Soviet Union the region has exceeded the level of 28 tons of gold output in 2018. Oil and coal output was 12 and 17.7 million tons respectively. (Ukrainian metal)