Russia: NLMK-Kaluga energy consumption down

NLMK-Kaluga has finished the lighting modernization project. The project improved labor conditions and decreased electricity consumption 3-fold. The project began in 2016. The assembly of the new equipment was carried out in H2 2017. Investments totaled 39 million rubles. Some 2117 lambs were replaced, decreasing electricity consumption from 9.9 million kW-h per year to 2.8…

Russia: Europe to hit rebars with duties

A number of European metal companies, that have previously demanded antidumping investigation on Belarus rebars, are prepared to submit a similar claim against Russian suppliers. According to Eurofer, in January-November 2017 EU imported 304.1 thousand tons of rebars from Russia. It should be noted that Turkey supplied 383.3 thousand tons. At the same time in…