In 2016 Metinvest paid over 14.1 billion UAH of taxes to budgets of all levels. According to the company statement, despite the increase in expenses and tariffs, as well as infrastructure problems and the ongoing military activity, the group was able to keep taxes paid on the level of 2015. (Ukrainian metal)
In mid-April Rusolovo will start mining tin at its Pravourminskoye deposits in Khabarovsk krai. This year the company intends to mine 830-850 tons of tin there, last year it mined 600 tons. The Molodezhny mine yielded 70 tons of concentrate last year, its capacity being 1.5 thousand tons per year. All in all in 2017…
Within the construction of the second stage of the copper electrolysis shop at Uralelectromed, a part of UMMC, a new machine to strip copper cathodes will be put into operation. This would be the same machine as is currently operating in the first stage of the shop, but all the work will be done by…
NLMK-Sort rebar and rolled wire mill has the capacity of 1 million tons per year. The Danieli mill can produce 6-16 m rebars and 5.5-22 mm rolled wire. A part of products (some 330 thousand tons of 5.5-6.5 rolled wire) is supplied to NLMK-Metiz, the rest is sold locally or exported. In 2017 the company…
The Rovno commercial court of appeals has cancelled the ruling of the Commercial court of the Volyn region dated February 21, which initiated the bankruptcy of the state-run Volynugol. The state enterprise has been in the process of going bankrupt since March 2. The appeal on the bankruptcy ruling was filed by the Ministry of…
Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works started manufacturing new products for the delivery to USA. “The US market is very attractive for our products. We are actively increasing the range of customers there, as well as new products. A good result for March is the cold-rolled structure steel according to ASTM A 1008/A 1008M”, the…
Vorkutaugol, a part of Severstal, has put into operation two new long faces at the Vorkutinskaya and Komsomolskaya mines. The Vorkutinskaya long face reserves are estimated at 468 thousands tons of coal. The mining will be carried out until November. The Komsomolskaya face has 856 thousand tons of coal, enough till March 2018. (Ukrainian metal)
Armenian scientists are working on the new technique to produce magnesium. According to Vagan Lalayan, the head of the Ministry of economical development and investments department of investment policy, their partner is the Ecoatom company. “The company wants to construct a works to produce 1 thousand tons of magnesium per year. There are many ways…