In January-June Neryungri-Metallik, a part of Nordgold, mining for gold at the Gross deposits in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), produced 768 kg of gold (24.7 thousand ounces). According to the company statement, in Q2 gold output totaled 463 kg (14.9 thousand ounces), up from 305 kg or 9.8 thousand ounces in Q1. In 6…
Rusal has put into operation a wire rod hardening furnaces at the Kandalaksha Aluminum Works. Investments totaled $5.6 million. The project began in March 2016. Now the works is capable of producing 6.8 thousand tons of 6101-T4 alloy wire rod per year, as well as improve its competitiveness and expand its client base. In March…
Belenergomash-BZEM has produced and supplied equipment (metal structures, pipelines, buckstay systems and bellows expansion joints) to Uralskaya Stal, a part of Metalloinvest. The group invests into the development of manufacture and efficiency improvement of its enterprises. Recently Lebedinsky GOK has constructed the largest manufacture of HBI in Russia. The next project was the heating and…
Severstal has concluded an agreement with the Ust-Kamenogorsk Works of Technical Equipment (Kazakhstan) for the delivery of filters for the extraction system of the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works sinter manufacture. Under the contract the company will produce an electric air filter with smoke exhaust with the capacity of 250 thousand cubic meters per hour.…
In July Krasniy Octyabr Iron and Steel Works produced 31825 tons of steel, up by 9% from the plan, with rolled metal output up by 7%. Sales totaled 1.351 billion rubles. For the second time the works has produced bulk ingots of stainless steel – 6 ingots with the weight of 39.5 tons have been…
PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih is completing the preparation stage of Continuous Casting Machines (CCM) 2 and 3 construction, the work of which will enable to significantly increase production of cast billets. In the frames of the large-scale investment program of the plant the company will invest over $100 million in construction of two new CCMs.…
The damage to the Gorlovka – Toretskoye water pipeline resulted in flooding of mines, and because of methane the citizens of Toretsk are under constant threat of explosion and gas poisoning. The pipeline was damaged in early January as the result of the shelling. And the water is flooding the Yuzhnaya mine and mine named…
Irkutsk Aluminum Works has fulfilled the first contract to produce wire rod of 3000 and 4000 series alloys. The batch of 20 tons has been sent to a Moscow region works, producing welding wire. The wire to weld aluminum sections and structures is in demand all across Russia, but is mostly manufactured of imported wire…
