A rally of employees of the public joint-stock company Sukhaya Balka started near the building of the State Service for Geology and Deposits of Ukraine in Kyiv on September 19. The miners are demanding to implement the court ruling permitting the issue of deposit use permits, which the authority has not implemented due to unknown…
A new director has been appointed at Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, situated in the pro-Russia militants-occupied territories. According to the Alchevsk journalist Oksana Sabardina, now residing in Zaporozhye, the new director is Alexei Smirnov, scientist-metallurgist. He is also a representative of the Russian owners of the works and the vice-president of Ukrainian Association of…
At an extraordinary meeting on September 15 Severstal shareholders approved of dividends for January-June 2017 in the volume of 22.28 rubles per ordinary share. According to the company statement, the registry will be closed on September 26. Earlier shareholders approved dividends for Q1 in the amount of 24.44 rubles per share. (Ukrainian metal)
The Soyedinitelniye otvody truboprovodov Works (SOT, a part of ChTPZ) has started manufacturing welded pipe sheet piles. These products are used in constructing bank stabilization structures. It took company 5 months to develop the manufacture. As a pilot version SOT produced welded pipe sheet piles of S390 steel sections and 630 mm diameter pipes. Now…
In January-August Zabaikalye region mined 13 million tons of coal, down by 5% YoY. At present 12 companies mine for coal in the region. 66% of the total volume was mined by Razrez Tugnuysky (a part of SUEK), followed by Razrez Urtuguysky (Atomredmetzoloto) and Razrez Kharanorsky (SUEK), which accounted for 23.3%. Last year the region…
4 works of the Russian Pipe Metallurgical Company have received quality management certificates in Gazprom’s voluntary certification system InterGazCert. In particular, the certificates have been granted to Volzhsk, Seversk and Sinarsky Pipe Works as well as Taganrog Iron and Steel Works. The certificates confirm the works’ quality management systems correspondence to Gazprom standards, the ability…
In August DTEK increased coal output at Lviv and Volyn region mines by 37% MoM, to 72 thousand tons. “This will allow us supplying enough coal to thermal power plants”, DTEK said. Regional power plants mostly consume coal, mined at the state enterprises Lvivugol and Volynugol. The level of purchases depends on the energy balance…
In the next 7 months the miners of the DTEK Space Heroes Mine Group intend to get coal from the new 1060 long face with the estimated reserves of 300 thousand tons. The coal will be supplied to thermal power plants, operating on gas coal. Investments into the new long face totaled 228.6 million UAH.…