In January-June Beloretsk Iron and Steel Works increased steel rope sales by 5% YoY, to 22 thousand tons. Calf lines for the drilling rigs in oil and gas industry, overhead ground wire as well as ropes for fishing industry and of the general use in lifting machines enjoyed the greatest demand from customers. Apart from…
Vadim Dubasov has been appointed the Severstal Russian Steel director of investments. His predecessor Sergey Sidorkov will continue working as the director of the center on investment projects. Dubasov started working with Evrazholding in 2001. In 2010 he went to work as the senior project manager at Evraz NTMK. From October 2012 till March 2018…
39 miners for more than a day refuse to return to the surface at the Novovolynskaya-10 mine in Volyn region, demanding their salary debts to be cleared. According to Vasiliy Pradid, the chairman of the Independent Miners Union of the mine, the miners ask the salary debts for April-June to be cleared. He did not…
In January-June Ferrexpo decreased pellets output by 1.2% YoY, to 5.096 million tons. According to the group statement, manufacture of pellets with 65% Fe content dropped by 2.5%, to 4.779 million tons, while that of pellets with 62% Fe content grew by 23%, to 317.1 thousand tons. The pellets manufacture of the group own ore…
The United States Department of Commerce has prolonged for a year the agreement with Interpipe, signed in July 2014, to suspend the antidumping investigation on pipes in exchange for price obligations on deliveries. The amendments to the contract will expire on July 10, 2019. Interpipe asked to prolong the agreement in November 2017. The department…
In June Ukraine’s coal mining enterprises of all forms of ownership extracted 2.55 million tons of coal, down by 5.8% from the planned targets, the Trade Union of Coal Mining Industry of Ukraine informed with reference to the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine. “In June the coal mining enterprises of Ukraine of…
The prices of the main precious metals decreased in Azerbaijan on July 3, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold decreased by 20.6805 manats, to 2,105.705 manats per ounce compared to the price on July 2. The cost of silver decreased by 0.3764 manats, to 26.8597 manats per ounce.…
According to VIAM CEO Yevgeniy Kablov, Russia experiences the problem of the lithium manufacture. The only lithium manufacturer in Russia is the Novosibirsk Works of Chemical Concentrates (NZKH), which supplies lithium both to the domestic customers and abroad. The enterprise started manufacturing lithium in 1960s. But Russia has no developed raw materials base to produce…