In 2017 zinc output at Chelyabinsk Zinc Works could grow by 5% YoY, to 183 thousand tons. According to the company CEO Pavel Izbrecht, indium output should total 4.5 tons. Favorable market situation allowed the company in 2016 to get the revenue of 28 billion rubles and the net profit of 3.2 billion rubles, investing…
By 2018 Sakha Sino Stal will have completed the construction of a plant to produce metal structures with the capacity of 500 tons per month near the city of Yakutsk. The structures will be made of steel used under low temperatures. Sakha Sino Stal was registered in September; its main activities are manufacture of metal…
Mechel-Service has shipped over 5 thousand tons of rebars for the housing construction in the city of Rostov-on-Don. The metal is used in the construction of a number of housing projects, in particular, Nikolayevsky, Yekaterininsky, and Arbat. All the rebars have been produced at Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works. “We have positive expectations of the…
In January-August industrial output in Donetsk region (not counting the antiterrorist operation zone) dropped by 12.6% YoY. In August metal output decreased by 16.9%, coke – by 17.5% YoY. In 8 months metal manufacture dropped by 7.5%, coke – by 23,7%. Coalmining totaled 7.2 million tons, down by 24.6% YoY, or by 2.3 million tons.…
DTEK intends to increase gas-coal output to 25 million tons per year to be able to fully cover Ukraine’s need in the fuel. “We have enough gas-coal stocks. But this is the matter of state policy, the issue of price creation and the market tools, which have to work. Coal industry needs constant investments”, the…
The restoration of the 10% tungsten ore and concentrates export duty, scheduled for September, has been postponed till the end of the year. Thus the current 0% duty will be valid through December 31. The export duty was imposed in 2013. In 2016 after requests from manufacturers it was temporarily cancelled. (Ukrainian metal)
Vorkutaugol, one of the major coalmining companies in Russia, has processed a record of 135 thousand tons of coking coal in a month. In order to hit a record, the company Pechorskaya central processing factory carried out all the necessary preparation works in H1. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-August Uralelectromed produced 31 thousand tons of copper sulfate, up 1.6-fold YoY. The output increase has to do with the favorable market situation, flexible marketing policy of the company and the constant replacement of equipment. Some 70% of its copper sulfate the company exports to Europe. (Ukrainian metal)
