Evraz NTMK has signed an agreement on cooperation with Nippon Steel (Japan) and Mashprom. The document presupposes development of by-product coke manufacture at the Nizhniy Tagil works. The agreement has been signed by Evraz NTMK and Evraz KGOK managing director Alexei Kushnarev, Mashprom managing director Alexander Kotelnikov and Nippon Steel European representative office in Dusseldorf…
According to Canadian Border Service, the country has imposed antidumping duties of 135.3% on the import of silicon steel from Kazakhstan. The same duty has been applied to the steel from Brazil, Malaysia, Norway and Thailand. Moreover, exporters from these countries received duties for subsidizing in the volume of 23.5%. (Ukrainian metal)
In late June Donetskstal stopped all labor relations with the employees of its “Metallurgical complex” subsidiary in Donetsk because of its shut down. Earlier the decision to fire personnel has been taken by Donetsk Iron and Steel Works, also a part of Donetskstal. These decisions have been motivated by the “actions of unidentified persons”, resulting…
Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine has started restoring operation after a 3-months idleness. According to the company statement, the works has already restored the supplies of all kinds of energy resources, including electric energy and gas. Soon the first trains with raw materials will start arriving. The blast furnace No. 1 will be put into…
The president of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko has vetoed the bill No. 6382 “On changes to the Decree of Ukraine “On changes to some decrees of Ukraine as to the decrease of the ferrous metals scrap deficiency on the local market”. The bill has been returned with the president’s marks. Earlier the Verkhovnaya Rada decided to…
Alexander Podkorytov, ex-CEO of Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works, a part of Metinvest, has been appointed the CEO of Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine, a part of the Industrial Union of Donbass. On July 7 the new CEO was presented to the employees by one of ISD owners Sergey Taruta and the corporation executive director…
In January-June Amur region obtained 11126 kg of gold, up by 22.6% YoY, including 9269 kg of ore gold and 1857 kg of alluvial gold. In H1 2016 the region yielded 9004 kg of gold, namely 7322 kg of ore and 1682 kg of alluvial gold. The main increase in output is on behalf of…
Karelsky Okatysh has started reconstruction of its dry magnetic separation complex – new machinery with higher capacity will be installed there. The new complex will be situated at the Zapadny quarry of the Korpangskoye deposits. Its project capacity will be 6 million tons of ore per year, up almost 2-fold from the existing machinery. The…
