The Ministry of Economy of Mexico has prolonged for 5 more years the antidumping duties on Russian hot-rolled sheets. The duty of 29.3% is applied to the products with the thickness of 4.75-10 mm and width of not less than 600 mm made of steel containing at least 0.0008% of boron. The duty was initially…
In January-March the world pig iron production increased by 4.5% YoY, to 292.574 million tons. In March the world produced 102.11 million tons of pig iron, up by 2.8% YoY. The Top-10 of world producers is headed by China with 62 million tons. Japan comes second with 6.563 million tons, followed by India (5.8 million…
The Security Service of Ukraine has found no basis to start criminal investigation as to the shut down of Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine according to the article 113 of the Criminal Codex of Ukraine (diversion). The matter was raised following the statement of a people’s deputy that the shut down was a criminal violation…
The electrolyte shop of Electrozinc, a part of UMMC, has put into operation the first induction furnace after the planned overhaul. The furnace is used to smelt cathode zinc into ingots. The repairs of the furnace with the output of 90 tons per day lasted for half a year. The capital repairs cost over 2…
The oxygen-converter shop of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works has reached an important milestone – 200 million tons of steel. At present this is one of the most efficient shops in the world. This is also the main steel smelting division of MMK, which yields over 80% of the total steel, or around 10 million…
In January-March Seaport St. Petersburg handled 1.8 million tons of cargoes, up by 4.6% YoY. According to the company statement, the positive dynamics has to do with the increase of metal exports. In particular, throughput of ferrous metals exceeded 1 million tons, up by 57% YoY, non-ferrous metals – 0.4 million tons, up by 1.2%,…
Kamensk-Uralsk Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Works, a part of Renova, in 2016 received 6.5 billion rubles of revenue, flat YoY. The company net profits decreased 5.6-fold, to 6.1 million rubles. “Taking into account the stabilization of the market situation in many industries we await positive financial results in 2017. One of our goals is to reach…
In February Metinvest increased EBITDA 3.6-fold YoY, to $151 million. According to the company statement, the result is down by 2.6% MoM. The group revenues in February increased by 40.6% YoY, to $592 million, but decreased by 1% MoM. (Ukrainian metal)