ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has suspended operation of the blooming shop site No. 1. Under the strategy of sustainable development, the company is waving outdated techniques. The blooming-1 started operating in 1958. Some years later the site No. 2 was commissioned. In 2015, both sites were merged into one shop. So far the shop has produced…
In January-April, Ukraine procured 958.3 thousand tons of scrap, down by 10.2% YoY. Deliveries to metal companies dropped by 8.7%, to 901.1 thousand tons. Exports decreased by 59.1%, to 11.6 thousand tons, and imports – by 74.6%, to 5.7 thousand tons. This year scrap export is expected to increase by 22.2%, to 50 thousand tons,…
In January-April, Irkutsk region extracted 5274.6 kg of gold, including 5041.6 kg of ore gold and 233 kg of alluvial gold. Output grew by 14% YoY. Polyus Verninskoye produced 2665.9 kg of gold, while Vysochaishiy and its daughter company Ugakhan LLC – 1285.4 and 777.4 kg of gold respectively. Druza LLC extracted 312.9 kg of…
In January-April, Amur region extracted 5411.3 kg of gold, up by 1.2% YoY. Ore gold accounted for 5321.3 kg, and alluvial output totaled 90 kg. Traditionally, Petropavlovsk enterprises have provided the largest volume of gold output: Malomyr (1520 kg, down by 22%), Pokrovsky Mine LLC (1202 kg, up by 27%) and Albynsky Mine LLC (1169…
In 2020 Ukrainian metal companies, according to an updated forecast will decrease steel output by 4.1% YoY (20.848 million tons), to 20 million tons, and by 7% from the initial forecast (21.5 million tons). For this, metal companies will receive 2.7 million tons of ferrous metals scrap, down by 10.3% YoY (3.011 million tons). Scrap…
In April, Ukraine exported $630.5 million worth of ferrous metals, down by 17.5% YoY. According to the customs statistics, in 4 months exports revenue decreased by 15.5% YoY, to $2.7 billion. The share of ferrous metals in foreign currency revenue dropped to 16.7% from 19.4% last year. (Ukrainian metal)
In April, Ukraine exported 304.9 thousand tons of pig iron valued at $89.2 million, up by 33.4% and by 18% YoY respectively. According to the State Customs Service, in 4 months exports grew by 11.9%, to 960.2 thousand tons valued at $286 million, up by 1.7%. The main customers were the USA (58%, up by…
Polska Grupa Gornicza (PGG) has received 127 sections of the ZRP 15/35 anchoring from Corum Group ahead of schedule. This is the third set of anchoring supplied to the Polish market. The anchoring will be used at the Wesola mine. Since 2018, Corum Group has supplied over 400 anchoring sections to PGG mines. Initially the…