A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Denis Safin, Director General of Zagorsky Pipe Works, took place in Moscow. In March large-diameter pipes produced by Zagorsky Pipe Works, namely electric-welded longitudinal steel pipes with a diameter of 1,020 to 1,422 mm, were included in the register of pipe products…
Iron ore from Severstal could be supplied to Yenakievo and Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, which were occupied by the terrorists organizations DPR and LPR in March. The Russian Railroads have already agreed to a 25% discount on such transportation. Iron ore raw materials will be transported from the Cherepovets-2 station in Rostov region and…
The president of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko suggests taking coal from Ukrainian power companies if they import it from Russia. “The next issue that the president is going to discuss with the National Security Council is the possibility of confiscating coal, which is sent from the occupied mines in Donbass to Russia, and then sold back…
On April 10, AREVA and Kazatomprom signed a major agreement to strengthen their long-standing cooperation in the uranium mining sector in Kazakhstan, Kazatomprom informs on its website. The official signing ceremony took place in Astana in the presence of the Minister of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kanat Bozumbayev and the Chairman of the…
Magadan region plans to produce 30.5 tons of gold in 2017 to hit a record high of the past years, the regional government said in a statement on April 10. “The Magadan region demonstrated a stable rise in lode gold output from 2009 through 2016. Production rose by 6.4 tons from 5.5 tons to 11.9…
Ukrgrafit could be shut down because of the lack of the main raw materials – anthracite coal. At present the company has to import coal from Russia. Ukrgrafit manufactures electrodes and other coal-graphite products for metal companies. Before the blockade it imported raw materials from the militants-controlled area of Donbass. When these deliveries ceased, the…
In March Ukraine mined 2.98 million tons of coal, down by 12.8% YoY, or by 438.2 thousand tons. The decrease has to do with the militants occupying coal enterprises of DTEK. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, the total yield of DTEK mines (Komsomolets Donbassa, Sverdlovantrazit and Rovenkiantrazit), is 30.3 thousand tons,…
In January-March Zaporozhogneupor increased unmolded refractories output by 15% YoY, to 1.831 thousand tons. At the same time molded refractories output (refractory concretes, mixes and masses) decreased by 5%, to 24.222 thousand tons. In March the company produced 9207 tons of molded and 489 tons of unmolded refractories. (Ukrainian metal)
