In January-July Ukraine decreased exports of iron ore raw materials by 5.3% YoY, to 21.487 million tons valued at $1.623 billion, up by 5%. The main importers were China (20.19%), Poland (14.4%) and Slovakia (13.2%). In 7 months Ukraine imported 9.073 thousand tons of iron ore raw materials, down by 95.6% YoY, valued at $617…
In January-July Ukraine imported 25.791 thousand tons of ferrous scrap valued at $22.01 million, up by 71.6% and by 57.7% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, Turkey supplied 71.93% of scrap, Russia – 9.64% and Slovakia – 9.41%. Ukraine also imported 1.12 thousand tons of hot-briquetted iron from Russia valued at $474 thousand,…
In January-July Ukraine exported 281.282 thousand tons of ferrous scrap valued at $92.418 million, up by 49.6% and 2.3-fold YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, in July Ukraine exported 10.939 thousand tons of scrap, in June – 19.359 thousand tons, in May – 34.537 thousand tons, in April – 76.331 thousand tons, in…
In January-June Russia exported 23.565 million tons of ferrous metals, up by 13.8% YoY. According to the Federal Customs Service, ferrous metals exports not counting pig iron, ferroalloys, scrap and wastes totaled 15.427 million tons, up by 5.1%. Exports of carbon steel semi-finished products grew by 13.7%, to 8.172 million tons. Flat rolled metal of…
Kazakhstan Electrolysis Works intends to increase primary aluminum manufacture. In 3-5 years the company will continue its work of increasing current strength in electrolytic cells from 320 kA to 340 kA. This will allow producing up to 265 thousand tons of primary aluminum per year. The design capacity of the works is 250 thousand tons…
In July direct deliveries of ferrous metals to railroad machine-building companies totaled 132.2 thousand tons. According to the railroad statistics, this is up by 52.4% YoY. In January-July deliveries reached 893 thousand tons, up by 25.4% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
In July Severstal-Metiz manufactured the record-high amount of high-carbon products – almost 15 thousand tons. The large output was due to the lack of delays in machinery operation and the favorable order portfolio. Consumption is active both locally and abroad. The main consumers are agriculture and light industry. “The previous record, set in May 2017,…
Chukotka has one of the largest reserves of gold in Russia – it occupies the second place after Krasnoyarsk region. Last year Chukotka yielded 25.3 tons of gold, 8% of the total Russian output of 306.9 tons. In the next 2 years the residents of the Beringovsky advanced development territory will occupy a considerable place…