Russia: PNTZ replaces 7 thousand gas-purifying filters

Pervouralsky Pipe Works has replaced bag filters of the gas-purifying equipment. The cost of the project was 20 million rubles. The filter replacement will decrease dust emission and minimize the manufacture impact on the environment. According to the company managing director Alexei Dronov, this year environment projects budget has been increased by 20%. (Ukrainian metal)

Ukraine: InGOK to improve rock transportation

Ingulets Mining and Processing Works has repaired the electric locomotive OPE1-AM No. 33. According to the company CEO Alexander Gerasimchuk, the locomotive was repaired at the Tbilisi Locomotive-building Pant (Georgia). Now the engineers are assembling the roof equipment. Soon the locomotive will resume operation. “This will allow us not only to increase the rock transportation…

Kazakhstan: metal prices up in May 2018

The prices of enterprises manufacturing industrial products, as well as providing production services, in Kazakhstan increased by 2.6% MoM in May and by 5% compared to December 2017, the Committee on Statistics of the Kazakh National Economy Ministry reported. Since the beginning of the year, producer prices in the manufacturing industry have increased by 3.5%…