In January-September Ukraine produced 15.762 million tons of steel, down by 14% YoY. Pig iron manufacture dropped by 18%, to 14.626 million tons, of rolled metal – by 16%, to 13.469 million tons, of coke – by 21%, to 7.696 million tons. At the same time pipe output increased by 26%, to 784 thousand tons.…
In January-September Zaporizhstal produced 2.467 million tons of rolled metal, down by 3.2% YoY. Steel output decreased by 0.3%, to 2.931 million tons, the company reports. Pig iron manufacture dropped by 0.1%, to 2.74 million tons. At the same time, in September Zaporizhstal increased rolled metal output by 13.4%, to 382.2 thousand tons, steel –…
In January-September Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine decreased rolled metal output 2.2-fold YoY, to 658 thousand tons. According to a company representative, in 9 months DMK produced 680 thousand tons of steel and 662 thousand tons of pig iron, both down 2.1 and 2.2-fold YoY. At the same time, in September the company produced 215…
Mikhail Mazhukin has been appointed the managing director of Korshunovsky Mining and Processing Works. In 2009-2013 Mazhukin managed the Yuzhnouralsk Nickel Works. At the new office he has replaced Boris Sedelnikov, who has been appointed open pit director at Yuzhny Kuzbass. “Boris Sedelnikov has made a great contribution to the development of KGOK. Under his…
Raspadskaya mine has started developing the bank 6-6a with the estimated reserves of over 127 million tons of coking coal. The first long face 4-6-33 (3.5 million tons) has been put into operation. Investments totaled 900 million rubles. “We’ve been preparing to start working at the bank for almost 3 years. The bank is powerful.…
Magamed Ibragimov has been appointed CEO and CFO of ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Aktau. He has previously held the position of the acting CFO at ArcelorMittal Temirtau. The previous AMTPA CEO Zhenis Utegenov has been appointed development director at the company. His tasks now are to increase output and develop new markets. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-September the miners of Stepnoy pit, a part of Russky Ugol, yielded over 3.1 million tons of power-generating coal. Since the pit has been put into operation, it has mined 57 million tons of coal. The Stepnoy factory has already processed 2.6 million tons of coal this year. (Ukrainian metal)
Aktogay Processing Factory, a part of KAZ Minerals, has reached the level of the projected sulfide ore processing capacity. Because of the higher than expected copper content in the ore, the factory will produce 70-85 thousand tons of copper in 2017. Now the group awaits good results from Bozshakol as well. (Ukrainian metal)