A set of hi-tech measures allowed Zaporizhstal considerably decreasing the terms of ecological reconstruction of the blast furnace No. 3 – from 2 years to 8 months. According to the company capital construction and investments director Alexei Lebedev, BIM-technologies helped unite 15 thousand two-dimensional drawings, remove over 11 thousand errors at the design stage and…
Gold output of Magadan region increased by 14.98% YoY, to 29.722 tons in January-September, a representative of the regional government’s natural resources department reported. Ore gold output rose by 34.96%, to 14.235 tons, and alluvial gold production increased by 1.2%, to 15.488 tons. Silver output fell by 7.04%, to 538.313 tons in the period. Magadan…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has extended the deadline for investors to wind down business with Russia’s En+ Group and aluminum giant UC RUSAL until December 12. The deadline for termination of contracts with GAZ Group remained on October 23. RUSAL shares and Global Depositary Receipts of En+…
A gas blowout occurred at the Centralnaya mine in the city of Toretsk resulting in the death of a miner. According to the commissioner of human rights in Donetsk and Lugansk regions Pavel Lisyanskiy, the accident happened late on October 11. There was a gas kick in the shaft and the cave-in of coal. One…
In October the state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works will put into operation a sulfuric acid warehouse with the capacity of 5 thousand tons. This will increase the stocked volumes of the acid and the terms of uninterrupted operation of the sulfuric acid machine. In 2017 VostGOK decreased uranium concentrate output by 16.8% YoY,…
In September railroad deliveries of metal from NLMK totaled 1.1 million tons, up by 14.8% YoY. In 9 months sales reached 9.6 million tons, up by 2.5% YoY. Deliveries to Russian customers increased by 0.6%, to 3.2 million tons, while exports grew by 3.5%, to 6.4 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In September railroad sales of steel from Amurstal totaled 55.1 thousand tons, up 2.6-fold YoY. In January-September sales grew 5.2-fold, to 406.5 thousand tons. This year Russian customers received 138.2 thousand tons, while 268.3 thousand tons were exported. (Ukrainian metal)
RM-Steel, specializing in the metal structures for the construction of ships, plans to double its output next year. “For this we intend to buy another heating furnace, which will allow us increasing output from 11 thousand tons to 22 thousand tons. The cost of the new machinery is around 90 million rubles”, the company owner…
