Employees of the state enterprise Lvivugol have blocked the road to the customs checkpoint of Rava-Russkaya on the border with Poland. The miners demand being paid salary for September and October. Some 40 miners participated in the strike. The police have agreed with the strikers to let cars through every 15 minutes. The miners also…
On November 16, on the day of its 85 years, Zaporizhstal received conformation of its records entered into the National project of records of Ukraine. This is the reconstruction of the blast furnace No. 3 and the environment initiative “Save the Dnepr Together”. The reconstruction lasted for 8 months, while usually it lasts for 1.5…
US has retained the 163% import duty on ferrosilicomanganese from Ukraine. The country believes that if the duty is cancelled, local manufacturers will be severely hit. The antidumping duty of 163% was set in 1994 as the result of the investigation initiated by local ferroalloys manufacturers. In September 2006 it was prolonged for 5 years.…
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works’ (MMK) Industrial Park signed a cooperation agreement with the Chelyabinsk Region Investment Development Agency and Metallurgic Deoxidizers Plant. The parties have agreed to cooperate on a project to construct a plant in Magnitogorsk to produce deoxidizers for steel, located in MMK Industrial Park. Investment in the first stage of the…
Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) participated in Metal-Expo’2018, the 24th International Industrial Exhibition, in Moscow. Traditionally, MMK’s stand was one of the biggest and the most impressive at the forum. Its visitors were able to explore a wide range of products and technological capabilities from both MMK plant itself and MMK Group’s companies. Among…
Precious metal prices increased in Azerbaijan on November 16, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The price of gold grew by 5.831 manats, to 2,066.4265 manats per ounce on November 16 compared to the price on November 15. The price of silver went up by 0.2569 manats, to 24.3513 manats per ounce.…
NLMK Group, an international steel company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Georg Selbach as CEO of NLMK Belgium Holdings plate business, which includes two companies in Europe: NLMK Clabecq (Belgium) and NLMK Verona (Italy). Peter Selbach will succeed Cornelius Louwrens, who will be leaving the company before the end of 2018. Peter…
Polymetal has started the seasonal activity suspension at the heap leaching factory in Magadan region. The operation of the factory lasted for a month longer this year. Thus, the northernmost heap leaching site of Russia increased gold output in January-September by 189% YoY, to 308 kg. The preparation for the factory conservation will take some…
