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…
Russia’s aluminum exports decreased by 3.2% YoY, to 2.549 million tons in January-November 2019, the Federal Customs Service said on January 14. In monetary terms, aluminum exports fell by 4.9%, to $4.31 billion in the period. Copper exports increased by 4%, to 637,000 tons worth $3.758 billion, down by 3.4%. Nickel exports remained flat at…
In 2019 Ukrainian companies received over 150 billion UAH of VAT reimbursement from the state. ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih tops the list with 8.3 billion UAH. It is followed by Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works (8.14 billion UAH), Zaporizhstal (6.47 billion UAH) and Azovstal (6.33 billion UAH). Poltava GOK and DMK were in the top-10…