The Alvidprof company will start manufacturing aluminum sections on the territory of the Phoenix industrial park in Smolensk region by the end of 2018. Investments in the project total 400 million rubles. Alvidprof has become the first resident of the industrial park, the construction of which will finish in Q3 2018. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-March the Industrial Metallurgical Holding enterprises mined 542 thousand tons of coking coal, down by 28% QoQ. The decrease was the result of the planned disassembly and assembly of machinery at Butovskaya mine and the short calendar period of the first quarter. Berezovskaya factory decreased coal concentrate processing by 6% QoQ, to 644 thousand…
Uskovskaya miners have started digging coal at the long face 50-08. The reserves of the face are estimated at 1.8 million tons of coking coal of the premium GZh grade. Each month the miners intend to obtain some 250 thousand tons of coal. After processing at Evraz factories Uskovskaya mine coal is delivered to other…
The power-generating company Centrenergo has cancelled the tender to buy 700 thousand tons of anthracite coal for Zmievskaya and Tripolskaya thermal power plants with delivery in May-December. According to the company statement, the decision was taken by the management in fear of the price increase in case of exchange rate fluctuations. 2 companies participated in…
Metinvest intends to implement anti-crisis measures at its Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. In particular it is suggested using iron ore raw materials wastes to produce sinter in view of undersupplies of sinter ore via railroad. “We intend to implement new methods of operation providing for the more efficient usage of secondary materials, thus…
Ukrzaliznytsia intends to send only 7 cargo trains through Kamysh-Zarya – Volnovakha railroad route. “And that’s when we need 18! We have raw materials enough for one day of operation. And we have informed the railway administration”, Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works CEO Yuri Zinchenko wrote on his Facebook page. He believes that the…
Energomashspetsstal has shipped a batch of back-up rolls to the Czech Republic. The delivery is being carried out under the contract concluded by EMSS and ArcelorMittal Ostrava in August 2016. The rolls with the total weight of 103.3 tons will be used in hot-rolling strip mills. (Ukrainian metal)
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has put the ball-rolling mill No. 2 into operation. The mill produces balls of the 4th group of hardness, used by raw material companies in ball mills to grind ore. Wisdri (China) delivered and assembled the main machinery. The new mill has been constructed taking into account the operation of…
