The Andrometa Works of Building Metal Structures is increasing its manufacturing capacities. Lately a new metal structures shop No. 5 has been commissioned. Now the construction of the shop No. 6 has started nearby. There metal structures will be assembled and welded. The size of the building is the same as that of the shop…
The Ferrous Metals Research Institute named after Bardin has developed a new alloyed steel with bainitic structure for the solid-rolled railroad wheels. Vyksa Iron and Steel Works and Russian Railroads participated in the development. The new bainitic steel has demonstrated higher mechanical and exploitation characteristics than its predecessors. The wheels were produced at Vyksa Iron…
One of the largest metal companies of Krivoy Rog – Mekhanobrchermet – has topped the Dniepropetrovsk region list on salary debts. The management was ordered to pay 4.1 million UAH to its employees. The company deals in processing and sintering of ferrous metals ores. (Ukrainian metal)
The works to produce titanium dioxide in the town of Armyansk in the Russia-annexed Crimea has been granted the rights to resume operation after a halt in early September because of the air pollution. The manufacturing wastes have been dumped since early 1970s. The size of the technical reservoir is 42 square kilometers and the…
The Federal Agency on subsoil use has announced an auction for the development and extraction of bismuth-containing copper-cobalt ores at the Western site of Kara-Jul ore lode in the Republic of Altai. The initial price of a 20-year license will be 413.07 million rubles. The Moscow-based company Altairudametall owned the license in 2006-2015. But the…
Albert Avdolyan has completely cleared the salary debts to the employees of the Hydrometallurgical Works (510 people) in the amount of 27 million rubles and to Intermix-Met LLC (170 people) for 9 million rubles. Avdolyan has also become the sole owner of the Yuzhnaya Power Company. All these companies are a part of the privatized…
In 2019 Evraz intends to sell 13.7 thousand tons of vanadium, up by 7% from the forecast for 2018 (12.8 thousand tons). The increase has to do with the sales of stocks. In mid-term the company also plans to optimize its manufacture at Kachkanarsky Mining and Processing Works to develop iron ore stocks with higher…
In August Russia exported 423.3 thousand tons of raw aluminum, up by 42.15% YoY. In January-August, according to the customs statistics, the exports totaled 2.15 million tons valued at $3910 million, up by 12.2% and by 25.2% YoY respectively. In August the average prices was $1809 per ton, up by 8.2% MoM. (Ukrainian metal)