In 2016 Velikoanadolskiy Refractory Works received 237.888 million UAH of net income, up by 50.1% YoY. According to the company statement, its net profit totaled 10.444 million UAH against the net loss of 30.159 million UAH in 2015. The undistributed profit was 14.288 million UAH, with EBITDA profit at 9.977 million UAH as opposed to…
State enterprises from Donetsk and Lugansk regions will head the list of the most profitless coal companies in 2017. Toretskugol with the coal prime cost of 5804 UAH per ton and Pervomayskugol (4250 UAH per ton) will get the most losses this year. The reason for this is ineffective management and non-transparent operation of the…
A new long face has been put into operation at a state enterprise Selidovugol mine. “The reserves of the long face are some 365 thousand tons of coal, that’s enough for a year for 2100 employees”, the Donetsk regional state administration chairman Pavel Zhebrivsky wrote on his Facebook page. The mine with the historical name…
Lensib, a part of the state enterprise Lenzoloto, has started the gold washing season of 2017. At present the sand washing has begun on the river Bodaibo. As of May 1, the site has already yielded 12.874 kg of gold. By the end of the season the site intends to have washed 135 kg of…
The machine-building shop of Omutninsk Iron and Steel Works has created a new manufacturing site. In April metal makers started producing solid-drawn pitchfork there. Earlier such a product was manufactured only at one enterprise, but it was shut down some 2 years ago. The company plans to sell the lawn and gardening tools all over…
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…