Russia: Amurmetal starts exporting to Asia

Amurmetal, which resumed operation in late July, exports over 60% of its products to the Southeast Asia. “We deliver to Thailand, the Philippines, and Korea, which don’t have large steel capacities because of the lack of energy resources, but do have rolling manufacture. We supply our steel billets there, they roll them and sell locally…

Russia: Mechel IFRS net profit down in H1 2017

The net profit of Russian metals and mining group Mechel, attributable to shareholders, fell by 40% YoY, to 4.994 billion rubles in January-June, as calculated under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the company said on August 23. The entire profit fell by 38%, to 5.682 billion rubles. EBITDA grew by 56%, to 40.227 billion rubles,…

Ukraine: Mariupol Ilyich signs contract with Primetals Technologies

Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has signed a contract with the leading manufacturer of machinery for ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH. This year the company has started reconstructing the 1700 sheet-rolling shop. “The signing of the contract for the basic engineering of the mill is the next step”, the company CEO…

Russia interested in supplying coal to Ukraine

Russia supplies some 10 million tons of coal to Ukraine annually and intends to retain the market. “I don’t think that the first coal batch from US will affect us. Mostly because we supply coking coal for metal enterprises. Ukraine used to get the power-generating coal from the DPR and LPR (Russia-created terrorist organizations of…