The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has sent the first, ‘trial’, consignment of its coal to Russia. “Today first 95 wagons of coal departed. This is a trial consignment,” DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko said. Zakharchenko did not elaborate on any specific characteristics of the coal supplied. (Interfax-Ukraine/Ukrainian metal)
In 2017 the Ministry of energy and coal industry expects the uranium concentrate output to increase by 21.5% YoY, or by 215.9 tons, to 1.221 thousand tons. According to the ministry statement, the forecast for 2018 is 1.501 thousand tons (up by 22.9% YoY), for 2019 – 2.48 thousand tons (up by 65.2%), and for…
In 2016 VSMPO-Avisma, the leader of the Russian titanium industry and the largest taxpayer of the Sverdlov region, increased net profits 1.8-fold YoY, from 14.8 billion rubles to 26.6 billion rubles. The revenues totaled 76.2 billion rubles, up by 4.9% YoY. The net profits were influenced by the growth of the dollar exchange rate resulting…
Yuzhny Kuzbass, a part of Mechel, has purchased a pump for coal concentrate water separation before drying valued at some 6 million rubles for its Siberia central processing factory. The new pump boasts better productivity, as it creates up to 300 cubic meters of air environment per minute, and can also decrease electricity expenses. The…
Evraz has paid some of its loans to a number of banks in Kazakhstan in advance. According to the group statement, it has cleared $120 million of its pre-export financing loan of $500 million, $81 million of the $125 million loan from Unicredit, and $87 of $100 million from Nordea. The Kazakhstan Bank on Development…
Energomashspetsstal will produce working rolls for two ArcelorMittal works. According to the company statement, it will supply 4 working rolls for hot-rolling to Belval & Differdange. According to the contract, the rolls will be delivered in Q3. Their total weight is 130 tons. For ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih EMSS will produce 8 rolls with the total…
In 2016 scrap procurement dropped to 3.5 million tons, the lowest result in the last 20 years. The main reasons for this are the thinning of the main sources of raw materials, machine-building stagnation, decrease in dollar purchasing prices, etc. “Ukraine has a considerable reserve of the outdated metal. The total volume is 600 million…
On March 10, Zaporizhstal started delivering metal to its customers by way of rivers after a three-months winter break. This year the company plans to supply around 600 thousand tons of metal by river to Bulgaria, Turkey, Serbia, Greece and Romania. “Water transportation has undeniable logistics advantages compared with other means of transportation. We systematically…
