The largest coalmine in Donbass – Komsomlets Donbassa – has been put out of operation. The mine is a part of DTEK, owned by Rinat Akhmetov. Most of the personnel were sent into unpaid vocation on March 3. Only the servicing employees were left who pumped water from the mine and controlled gas level. According…
In 2016 Chelyabinsk Zinc Works, the largest Russian zinc and alloys manufacturer, a part of UMMC, produced 174803 tons of Special High Grade zinc and alloys, up by 2.2% YoY. Nova Zinc LLC in 2016 produced 36718 tons of zinc concentrate (36770 tons in 2015), and 5677 tons of lead concentrate (5655 tons). The Brock…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service has allowed the Tominsky Mining and Processing Works (a part of the Russian Copper Company) to buy a 50% stake in Chelyabinsk Coal Company. In October 2016 the press-service of the Chelabinsk region governor reported RMK planned to acquire shares of ChUK to recultivate Korkinsky coal pit. RMK needed the deal…
Yakutugol, a part of Mechel, has started operations at the open-pit coalmine at the Jebariki-Khaya site. In summer 2016 the company stopped using underground method of mining at the site. For open-pit mining Yakutugol bought all the necessary machinery: excavators, bulldozer, dump trucks, etc. The project capacity of the pit is 320 thousand tons of…
The manufacturing company DIA has started making new products – oval-section pipes. The flat half-ovals are in demand by furniture manufacturers. The company specialists have developed the necessary rolling tools for the production of the new pipe. (Ukrainian metal)
Coal mining companies of DTEK, situated on the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, have suspended mining coal. “Komsomolets Donbassa mine, DTEK Sverdlovantrazit and DTEK Rovenkiantrazit have stopped mining coal”, the group press service reported. On February 13, the railroad connection through the demarcation zone was completely stopped, resulting in the coal mined…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the needs of the coal sector in mine rescue equipment are financed by 15-20%. “This is our tragedy that due to a lack of financing of many important spheres of life people are killed and suffer. Sufficient funds were not invested neither in coalmines, nor roads, hospitals,…
The Seversk Pipe Works, a part of TMK, has put into operation the steel arc furnace waste-heat utilization machine. The machine is used to utilize the waste heat, emerging in the arc furnace during cooling. The new machine allows the works to put around 5 gKal of heat per hour to good use – supplying…
