Russia: Severstal invests 48 million rubles in 2000-mill modernization

Severstal has modernized the 2000-mill in the machine-building center Tyazhmash shop. “The investment project estimated at over 48 million rubles will increase the press efficiency, improve the product quality and decrease its prime cost”, Severstal Russian Steel CEO Vadim Germanov noted. After modernization the precision of forgings increased, as tolerance dropped from 10 to 3-5…

Russia: gold output up in 2017

Russia’s gold production rose about by 6.8% YoY, to 317.660 tons in 2017, Sergei Kashuba, chairman of the Union of Gold Producers of Russia, said on March 6. Gold producers raised their output by 6.4%, to 254.216 tons in 2017, while by-product gold production gained 11.6%, to 16.459 tons, gold scrap production went up by…