The extraction of energy and coking coal in Ukraine in January-June decreased by 2.9% YoY, to 18.4 million tons, the press service of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry reported. According to the report, 2.37 million tons of the total volume of coal was extracted at state-owned mines, where the overall coal production for…
Head of the government Bakytzhan Sagintayev has visited LLP “KAZ Minerals Bozshakol”, which mines and extracts copper ore. The enterprise was designed to extract 30 million tons of ore per year, to produce 100,000 tons of copper concentrates, and 120,000 ounces of gold concentrates within the first 10 years. 1,032 people work here. Today, the…
VSMPO-Avisma and OAK-Zakupki LLC have concluded long-term contracts on delivery of aluminum and titanium products for major Russian aviation industry enterprises. Avisma will be supplying aluminum alloys wares till 2019 and titanium alloys wares by 2020. All the metal will be delivered to the United Aircraft Building Corporation, which includes among others Sukhoi and Irkut…
Karabashmed has started assembling the automated copper pouring machinery. To transport copper ingots to the warehouse a new turnover device and roller table will be constructed. The new machinery will be tested in early autumn, after that the whole metallurgical shop will be shut down for repairs. All the modernization work is expected to be…
The Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works sintering factory has resumed operation. According to the company technical director Konstantin Nesvet, in the first day the factory produced 2 thousand tons of sinter and kept putting sintering machines into operation. DMK has also put its blast furnace N1M into operation, as all the raw materials have been…
The state enterprise Mirnogradugol (Donetsk region) has signed an agreement with the individual entrepreneur Shapko I. M. on the transportation services valued at 199.99 thousand UAH. For the past year Shapko has received orders only from Mirnogradugol, in particular it has signed 5 agreements valued at 998 thousand UAH. Four of these were just 0.01…
Energomashspetsstal has started manufacturing a new batch of billets for Eltech (Poland). The order will be carried out under the contract concluded with Zaklad Mechaniczny ELTECH sp.z.o.o in 2011. The company will supply 12 rolls with the total weight of 90.2 tons. The rolls to be used in the construction of electric machines will be…
This year Uzbekistan will additionally buy 50 thousand tons of rolled metal and 20 thousand tons of raw materials. The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoev has signed a decree “On measures to provide for additional needs of the republic in ferrous rolled metals and metallurgical raw materials”. Uzbekistan Temir Yullari (state railroad company) will import…
