The combined sales of titanium rolled products and bars by VSMPO-Avisma rose by 14% YoY, to 28,779 tons in 2017, the company said in a statement on May 23. Exports grew by 26%, to 20,588 tons, while domestic sales fell by 8%, to 8,192 tons. The U.S. and Europe accounted for most exports with 44%…
Kazakhstan’s national company Kazatomprom delivered the first batch of uranium to Brazil, the company’s press service said in a message. “The National Atomic Company of Kazakhstan is expanding the geography of its products supply on the world nuclear fuel market. Kazatomprom JSC won an international tender for the supply of natural uranium concentrates for the…
The state enterprise Ukrpromvneshexpertisa says in June deliveries of scrap to metal companies will decrease by 16.67% MoM, or by 50 thousand tons, to 250 thousand tons. “I believe in June deliveries will decrease somewhat, as the price drop starts affecting scrap procurement. Thus, deliveries to metal companies will also decrease. Another factor is the…
The State Service of Geology and Subsoil Use has suspended special permits to mine coal of the Mine “Rossiya” LLC and the Mine 1-3 Novogrodovskaya LLC. The basis for the suspension of the permits is the violation of two clauses of the “Ukrainian Subsoil Code”. The service has given the companies 10 days to set…
Vorkutaugol has received the quality certificate for the coal concentrate of a new grade – 1Zh. The company has also confirmed the quality of its other products – coal concentrate of grades K, 2Zh and GZhO. The new certificate allows the company to sell the product. “We started processing the 1Zh grade in trial mode…
At present salary debts to the employees of the state coalmining enterprises amount to 406.8 million UAH and are the result of the difficult economic condition of the state coal sector. “In 2018 we have seen no sufficient support from the state, thus now we have wage debts of over 400 million UAH”, Department of…
Azovstal has shut down its converter No. 2 for an 8-hour repair to service gas-purifying equipment. A month ago the converter was also shut down to repair technological equipment, sensors, etc. Within the following 4 years Azovstal intends to invest over $300 million into environment-protection projects. (Ukrainian metal)
The First Vice Prime Minister held a meeting with the management of GL Makmal Developing the day before. According to the government’s press service, the parties discussed the events that took place on April 11 in Kazarman village, Toguz-Toro district of Jalal-Abad region, where the territory of the gold processing plant was set on fire.…
