Velta has signed a 5-year contract with Traxys Group to supply ilmenite valued at $100 million to North America. “As North America is one of the most stable and rapidly growing markets, we have decided to switch to long-term contracts, which will improve stability in our operation”, the company CEO Andrei Brodsky said. In late…
ChTPZ has produced and supplied long cold-deformed boiler pipes with special characteristics to Taganrog Boiler Works “Krasniy Kotelschik”. The volume of the batch was 300 tons. The pipes will be used in the manufacture of steam boilers and pipelines. The length of the pipes is 18.5 to 21.2 meters. The specifics of the pipes are…
Karelsky Okatysh together with the coke-sinter-blast furnace manufacture of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works developed a new product – crushed iron ore pellet. A trial batch was produced in October 2019, and all in all last year the company sold over 330 thousand tons of such pellets. The pellets are used to produce sinter at…
Renova has sold 49.45% of Kamensk-Uralsky Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Works. The new owner of the shares is not named. Until 2018 Renova owned 89.45% of the company shares. In September 2019 it transferred 25% of shares to KompleksProm and 15% to Leto LLC. (Ukrainian metal)
Sibcable has commissioned two high-speed laying machines. Their total cost is 320 thousand euro. New machines intended to lay multi-wire strands will be operating at the shop No. 6, which produces shaft and excavator cables. In a minute one machine can make 3200 to 7000 lays. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2019 railroad transportation in Perm region totaled 44.9 million tons, up by 0.7% YoY. In particular, the railroad transported 235.2 thousand tons of ferrous metals, up by 0.7%, and 398.6 thousand tons of iron and manganese ore, up by 68.2%. At the same time, transportation of ferrous scrap dropped by 14.2%, to 455.4 thousand…
In 2019 Amur region extracted 26284.4 kg of gold, up by 15.3% YoY. Ore gold accounted for 17627.9 kg, up by 25.4%, while the share of alluvial gold did not change (8656.5 kg). Malomyr mine extracted 5607.3 kg of gold, up 2.3-fold YoY. Albyn mine increased output by 13.2%, to 5317.3 kg, while Pokrovsky mine…
In November 2019 Russia imported 74 thousand tons of manganese ore and concentrate, down by 33% MoM and by 51% YoY. Deliveries from the South Africa dropped from 66.2 thousand tons to 29.5 thousand tons, and from Kazakhstan – more than 2-fold, to 3.8 thousand tons. At the same time purchases in Gabon increased by…