President of Nornickel Vladimir Potanin has visited the deepest mine of the company, which is also the deepest in Eurasia, – the Skalisty Mine at the depth of 2056 meters. The Skalisty project is estimated at 134 billion rubles. Last year the mine yielded 1.9 million tons of ore, and this year 2.2 million tons…
On September 7 Electrozinc shut down its zinc manufacture to carry out annual repairs. Until the end of the month all the machinery will be checked, cleaned and repaired. Some 1 thousand employees are participating in the work, both contractors and shop workers. The main object of the repair is the sulfur acid shop. The…
Alexander Popov has been appointed the CEO of Bystrinskoye Mining and Processing Works effective as of September 3. He has previously worked in Kuzbassugol, Vorkutaugok, Olkon and Krasniy Kotelschik. The ex-CEO of BGOK Vladimir Nakivayko has been working at Nornickel enterprises for 25 years. (Ukrainian metal)
The Titanium Investments LLC subsidiary in the town of Armyansk, in the north of the Russia-occupied Crimea, the manufacturer of titanium dioxide, has shut down all of its 8 furnaces. “The last furnace was shut down on September 9”, the company deputy CEO Andrei Dogadov said. According to him, the water used in the manufacture…
Rushydro has taken a pause in entering the Taishet Aluminum Project of Rusal. “There is a pause, not only on our behalf, but also on behalf of our colleagues, the banks. They have to settle the project financing based on their own vision of what’s going on”, Rushydro chairman Nikolay Shulginov said. “Taking all the…
Energomashspetsstal has produced equipment for the fourth power unit of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. According to the company station, a representative of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India visited the works to check the equipment. “The EMSS specialists have produced the tube for the main reactor coolant pipe with the diameter of 1130×65. The…
In January-August Azovstal produced 2.689 million tons of rolled metal, up by 29.2% YoY. According to the company statement, steel output grew by 0.5%, to 2.824 million tons, while that of pig iron – by 6.3%, to 2.623 million tons. In August Azovstal produced 308 thousand tons of rolled metal, 336 thousand tons of steel…
The government of Sverdlovsk region has approved the removal of over 300 hectares of forests on the territory of Bilimbayevskoye and Nizhne-Tagilskoye forestries. The former will lose the largest part (254 ha). The sites thus retrieved will be used to extract ore gold and platinum at Kostarevskiy gold-bearing site and Rublevikskaya platinum alluvial site. (Ukrainian…
