Scrap procuring companies of Ukraine hope that the creation of the free trade zone with Turkey will decrease the export duty on scrap. At present the Agreement on the Association of Ukraine and EU presupposes the zeroing of the export rate on scrap by 2024. In 2018 the duty dropped from 9.5 euros per ton…
Interpipe is pondering the creation of the database of unscrupulous scrap procuring enterprises in order not to cooperate with them in future. “The scrap shortage is an important factor for us, but on the other hand we are now more concerned with the quality of the raw materials we receive. We want to create the…
The State Duma has adopted in the second reading the draft decree on imposing a zero rate of VAT on companies that extract precious metals from scrap or wastes without a license and then sell them to the State Fund, banks and the Central Bank. According to an explanatory note to the document, the tax…
Several gold-extracting projects will be carried out in Irkutsk region. Polyus intends to commission the Sukhoi Log deposits by 2026. The capacity of the gold-extracting factory is expected at 30 million tons of ore with the average gold output at 1.6 million ounces per year. Investments will total $2-2.5 billion. Meanwhile Polyus Verninskoye has received…
In mid-June the group of companies Ferrum (Novosibirsk) has put into operation the fifth pipe mill TESA 48-133. The mill produces electric-welded straight seamed pipes with the diameter of 48-133 mm. The total capacity of the mill is up to 6 thousand tons of pipes per month. (Ukrainian metal)
Additional premises of the oil-processing works have been put into operation in Azerbaijan. The size of the premises is 1500 square meters. The weight of the metal structures is 154 tons. This is the second building constructed in the country by the specialists of Novinsky Works of Metal Structures (Moscow). The oil-processing works has been…
In order to check the compliance of the Energomashspetsstal environment management system to the ISO 14001:2015, the company has been visited by QSCert-Ukraine B.V specialists. They have checked 17 structural subdivisions of the company, studying the documents dealing with environment protection and speaking with the directors and the personnel. The information obtained during the audit…
Ukrmetallurgprom and the Ukrainian association of secondary metals UAVtormet have addressed the Verkhovna Rada asking it to free the scrap metal operations from VAT. “This will make it impossible to some companies to carry out operations, which allow them to get the VAT reimbursed from the state budget”, the letter said. According to the letter,…