In January-May Russia increased gold output by 2.5% YoY, to 88.92 tons, including 68.96 tons of extracted gold, 7.29 tons of by-product gold and 12.66 tons of secondary gold. Silver output in 5 months decreased by 4.7% YoY, to 380.59 tons, including 170.36 tons of extracted silver, 134.83 tons of by-product silver and 75.4 tons…
In January-June Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works invested 1.64 billion rubles into reconstruction and construction of environment protection facilities. In particular in the sinter shop MMK has reconstructed a sulfur recovery unit No. 2. An extraction system for foundries of blast furnace No. 10 with the capacity of 800 thousand cubic meters per hour has…
Beloretsk Iron and Steel Works has modernized the roller furnace in the rolling shop. This will improve the rolled metal quality and decrease expenses. The furnace is used to heat the billets to 1050 degrees C before rolling. Investments in the project totaled 15 million rubles. (Ukrainian metal)
The Russian Ministry of energy has acknowledged that most of the coal, supplied from pro-Russia terrorist-occupied territories of Ukraine, is re-exported. The deputy energy minister Anatoly Yanovsky said that a small portion of Donbass coal was consumed by Gazprom’s electric power plant in Rostov region. “Coal from Donbass is supplied to Russia. It is consumed…
On August 1, the Kharkiv Machine-Building Works “Corum Svet shakhtera”, a part of Corum Group, started increasing salary of its employees on the background of the 120% loading of its capacities. The maximum increase will total 40%. Previously the wages ranged between 8 and 15 thousand UAH depending on the output and quality of products.…
The Russian group of companies MetProm will design the modernization project for Uzbekistan Iron and Steel Works. The Uzbek party will have received the project documentation by October. The project presupposes the construction of two steelsmelting furnaces, two steel-treating furnaces and a casting-rolling complex. The modernization cost is estimated at $550 million. After the modernization…
In January-June, according to customs statistics, Russia imported 135.4 thousand tons of corrosion-resistant flat rolled steel valued at $291 million, up by 35% and by 50% YoY respectively. China supplied 26.4% of metal, up by 56.5% YoY, with the average price on the border of Russia in June at $2047 per ton, up by 36.4%.…
In June, according to the customs statistics, Russia exported 3.9 thousand tons of corrosion-resistant steel scrap and waste valued at $3.2 million, down by 22.8% MoM and by 44.5% YoY. Earnings decreased by 31.4% MoM and by 54.7% YoY. In January-June Russia exported 38.5 thousand tons of scrap valued at $37 million, up by 5.6%…