Uralelectromed increased copper powder wares with silver coating by 15% YoY in January-September. By the end of the year the company intends to have produced 70 tons of such powders. According to the marketing department director Andrei Senkov, output increase is the result of the favorable local market situation (as the company mostly sells locally)…
Evraz ZSMK has finished reconstructing its electric arc furnace. Investments totaled 300 million rubles. The reconstruction will decrease manufacturing expenses, while improving productivity. Time to produce steel will also decrease, and the output will go up by 100 thousand tons, to 931 thousand tons per year. (Ukrainian metal)
MMK has smelted the 800-millionth ton of steel, a record hit for all the country. The first steel was smelted on July 8, 1933 with the commissioning of the first open-hearth furnace. In 1936 the construction of the open-hearth shop with 12 furnaces weighing 150 tons each was completed. By the end of 1980-s MMK…
In January-August Ferrexpo exported 6.541 million tons of iron ore pellets. In particular, Poltava GOK exported 5.239 million tons of pellets. At the same time Karelsky Okatysh exported 3.388 million tons of pellets, Mikhailovsky GOK – 2.342 million tons, Lebedinsky GOK (all three – Russia) – 1.54 million tons, and SevGOK – 1.597 million tons.…
The net profit of Chelyabinsk Zinc Works, Russia’s largest zinc producer, increased by 24.4% YoY, to 3.854 billion rubles under Russian Accounting Standards (RAS) in January- September, it said in a statement on October 26. Revenue rose by 29.5%, to 21.538 billion rubles, gross profit grew by 16%, to 6.053 billion rubles; income from sales…
The right to explore Malatash gold deposit in Aksy district of Jalal-Abad region is put up for auction, the State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use reported. According to it, exploration and appraisal work was carried out at Malatash deposit and adjacent area in 1974-1977. Estimated reserves and forecast resources amount to 7,866.5 kilograms.…
In January-September Donetsk region industrial output decreased by 12.4% YoY, while in September by 10.9% YoY and by 2.5% MoM. In September mining and quarrying output dropped by 7.7% YoY, including coal by 24.5%, metal output by 13.4%, coke – by 23.8%. In 9 months metal output decreased by 8.2% YoY, mining and quarrying by…
Energomashspetsstal has successfully passed the quality management system audit for the correspondence with the new ISO 9001:2015 requirements. The audit has been carried out by TUV Thuringen. The auditors have checked 16 manufacturing divisions at random. Following the check TUV Thuringen recommended granting EMSS the international certificate of ISO 9001:2015 correspondence. (Ukrainian metal)