Gazprom will purchase 121 thousand tons of pipes with diameter of 1020, 1220 and 1420 mm and outer three-layer insulation from Zagorsky Pipe Works. The pipes will be used to repair main pipelines. The order will completely cover the current needs of Gazprom for repair. The delivery will be carried out by installments by the…
Since May 11, the new general manager of Severstal – Balakovo, a part of Severstal Russian Steel, is Artem Akinfiev, who has previously been responsible for the improvement of manufacturing processes at Promservis, another part of SRS. “In his new office Akinfiev will be responsible for increase of the company competitiveness on the bars market”,…
In January-March Russia exported 752 tons of stainless steel products, down by 31.4% YoY. The exports consisted of billets (27.7% of the total volume), bars (22.7%), electric welded pipes (16.6%), flats (16.2%), seamless pipes (12.5%), valves (2.4%) and wire (1.9%). Except for the billets and valves, which demonstrated a rise of 9.8-fold, to 208 tons,…
On May 8, in PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih an accident happened which led to the death of the company’s employee. At Sinter plant of Steelmaking Production of the plant reinforced concrete roofing of charge section fell on belt conveyers. At that moment the doser was working between the conveyers. As a result of falling of…
DTEK has started supplying Pridneprovskaya and Krivorozhskaya thermal power plants with coal from its mines in Rostov region (Russia). “Before the first coal from the South African Republic arrives in June, DTEK decided to direct some coal from Obukhovskoye mine group in Russia”, the company informed. The enterprise is a part of DTEK and at…
So far the gold washers of Kolyma have yielded 1.7 tons more gold then last year. The plan for the year is 30.5 tons. In 2016 Kolyma miners produced 27.9 tons of gold and 889.2 tons of silver, with 15.9 tons of alluvial metal, an absolute record for Russia. Susumanzoloto yielded 4.5 tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2015-2016 MGTS earned 1.36 billion rubles each year from sales of old copper cable. The company does not disclose the volume of sales, but taking into account procurement prices in Moscow, it could have been 4500 tons in 2016. MGTS not only sells old cable, but also buys new one. In April it announced…
The rail-beam shop of Evraz ZSMK has initiated a project to start producing new lengths of rails and increase R65 100-meter rails output. Investments will total 168 million rubles. The shop will see the construction of the second rail line, after which ZSMK will be able to produce European rails 60E1 and 54E1 with the…