7 officials of the state enterprise Lvivugol have been accused of corruption by the Chervonograd local prosecutors. Without any important reasons they have untimely filled in the declaration on income and possessions on the official site of the National agency on corruption. They have all been fined for 850 UAH each. (Ukrainian metal)
The state enterprise Yuzhnodonbasskoye No. 1 Mine Group has ordered the Makeevka Works “Fakel” the delivery of fire extinguishers valued at 2.03 million UAH. In 2017-2018 the works has to supply 600 mine extinguishers VP-8 at 2540 UAH apiece and 300 extinguishers VVSH9 at 1690 UAH apiece. On the open market such extinguishers are sold…
European Commission has decided to impose a fixed tax on each ton of hot-rolled iron, alloyed and unalloyed steel originating from Ukraine, Russia, Iran and Brazil instead of minimal import prices. The fixed tax per ton will become the final protection against hot-rolled metal imports from these countries. The tax for Russian manufacturers will be…
In January-August Novoshakhtinskoye Open Pit Group of Primorskugol LLC, a part of SUEK, shipped 1.738 million tons of coal from the Pavlovskoye deposits, up by 3.5% YoY. At present Primorskugol is constructing the Nekkoviy open pit at the Lipovetsky deposits. Its project capacity is 500 thousand tons of coal per year. The pit will be…
Chelyabinsk Zinc Works has started negotiations with the owners of major ferrous metal plants, including MMK and ChMK, on the possibility of processing and recycling their zinc-containing dust wastes. According to the company EO Pavel Izbrecht, the current technologies allow to effectively and safely process these raw materials. In 2017 it is planned to obtain…
ArcelorMittal Temirtau has put into operation a new 8 D1-2 breakage face at the Shakhtinskaya mine. The company has invested over 500 million tenge into the face. The coal reserves there are estimated at 590 thousand tons. Average daily output will be 3 thousand tons. The new breakage face will be developed for 9 months.…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant is modernizing its copper wire rod shop. The company intends to replace the casting machine, increase the wheel diameter, furnace capacity, and assemble new engines. This will allow improving the speed of the technological chain to 20 tons per hour and output to 140 thousand tons of copper wire rod per…
Egypt decided to prolong temporarily antidumping duties on rebars, produced in Ukraine, Turkey and China, for 2 months. The size of the duty is 15-27% CIF for Ukraine, 10-19% CIF for Turkey and 17% CIF for China. Egypt introduced duties on imported rebars in June for 4 months. The decision was taken to protect local…
