Investment company Interros of the Russian businessman Vladimir Potanin has closed an acquisition of 2.1% in mining and metallurgic company Norilsk Nickel from Crispian Investments of businessman Roman Abramovich’s Millhouse to raise its stake to 32.9%, a representative of Interros reported on March 15. Earlier in March aluminum giant UC RUSAL of businessman Oleg Deripaska…
An An-12 cargo plane carrying some 9 tons of gold has lost a third of its cargo during takeoff from the Yakutsk airport in Eastern Siberia, a local transport police spokesman reported. Earlier reports said that the plane’s cargo hatch was partially torn off by a strong flow of air during takeoff. “A total of…
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant is pondering the creation of its own fleet of cargo railroad open cars. According to the company CEO Oleg Bespalov, at present it uses Ukrzaliznytsia open cars and faces their shortage. “It’s not a big deal at the moment, but in future we would like to have a wagon fleet of our…
The trade union of ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih at the meeting held on March 14 demanded the company management to increase the salary to 1 thousand euros in UAH equivalent from April 1. The employees also demanded the provision of safe working conditions: checking all roofs and constructions. This is connected with the recent collapse of…
In February Dneprospetsstal produced 21031 tons of steel and 14055 tons of rolled metal, both up by 2.1% and by 1.7% MoM respectively. The combined cost of goods manufactured in February reached 784306 thousand UAH, up by 0.5% MoM. In 2 months the company produced 41623 tons of steel and 27874 tons of rolled metal,…
This year MMK intends to load its galvanized and polymer-coated metal capacities to the maximum. According to the coated metal sales senior manager Alexei Oleynik, the company main goal is to completely satisfy customers in product range and quality. “The domestic market is still considered the main destination of sales. The share of the inner…
In 2017 Russia consumed 4.3 million tons of rolled metal with coating. According to Severstal Russian Steel flat rolled metal sales director Kirill Kiryushkin, imports from Kazakhstan grew, but fell from China and Ukraine. This year a slight increase in consumption of galvanized and coated steel is expected – by 2%. Last year Severstal was…
In 2017 Metalloinvest revenue grew by 46.2%, to $6.2 billion mostly because of market situation improvement and the growth of high added value products sales, in particular hot-briquetted iron. Metal products sales revenue last year increased by 43.7%, to $3.2 billion, and iron ore sales – by 51.5%, to $2.8 billion. The main share of…
