Hundreds of Krasniy Octyabr employees stopped working and went on a strike. The reason was the news on the labor condition changes because of the FIFA World Cup. The workers were enraged by the tiny salary they would receive during the forced delay in the company operation. According to FIFA environment demands, since May 25…
An employee of a contractor company perished at the Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. The accident with the employee of the Azov Bud-Proekt LLC happened on June 8. The welder fell into the skip pit while working at the blast furnace No. 5. The blast furnace shop of Mariupol Ilyich operates 5 furnaces with…
This year Zaporizhstal will invest some 34 million UAH in the improvement of the working conditions of its employees. According to the company statement, 19 premises with the combined size of 6 thousand square meters will be repaired. Earlier the company has already assembled crane conditioners in the sheet-rolling shop, cold-rolling shop No. 1 and…
Altai-Koks will invest some 4 billion rubles in modernization of the coke-oven plant No. 5. “We’re operating on 5 coke-oven plants, and the fifth one will be reconstructed, we’re switching to the ramming technique. It will increase the efficiency of the plant. The project will be carried out in 2 years”, the company CEO Pavel…
Rosterminalugol, operator of Russia’s largest dedicated coal port (run by Port Management Company, PMC LLC) has shipped 10 million tons of export coal year-to-date. According to the stevedoring company, the milestone ton was loaded onto the Panamax ship Robert Oldendorff. This result was achieved on June 8 (in 2017 – on June 12). From the…
A factory workshop for the production of small gold bars will be opened in Kyrgyzstan, the Chairman of the National Bank Tolkunbek Abdygulov stated at the meeting of the parliamentary committee on budget and fiscal policy. According to him, the bank together with Kyrgyzaltyn is working on the opening of the workshop. “We need it…
In May Dneprospetsstal produced 21.8 thousand tons of steel, on the April level. Rolled metal manufacture dropped by 0.5% MoM, to 14.3 thousand tons. The total cost of products manufactured in May reached 863929 thousand UAH, up by 2.8% MoM. In January-May DSS produced 107.4 thousand tons of steel and 71.52 thousand tons of rolled…
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, a part of Metinvest, is forced to shut down its converter No. 2 from June 26 for essential repairs. The company has to make this move under pressure form environment activists, who claim the converter is seriously damaging the city of Mariupol air. At present Azovstal converters make 22 steel…