Giessenhause has started the construction of the aluminum alloys works in Pavlodar region, the regional akim (governor) Vulat Bakauov reported. The enterprise will serve as the base for creation of the aluminum cluster and the manufacture of automobile disks, sections, sheets, wire and plates of aluminum alloys. “80% of the products will be exported”, Bakauov…
In 2017 Chelyabinsk Forge-and-Press Works intends to increase output by 23% YoY, to 8.1 billion rubles. “ChKPZ has implemented the large-scale efficiency improvement program, which will allow us saving 300 million rubles per year without much investments”, the company CEO Andrei Gartung said. In 2016 the works earned 6.6 billion rubles, up by 35% YoY.…
Ukgazvydobuvannya has ordered Interpipe the delivery of steel pipes valued at 87.55 UAH. By the end of February, the company would have supplied seamless hot-deformed insulated pipes at 31-32 thousand UAH and arc-welded pipes of 720×8 mm at 28 thousand UAH. Interpipe did not decrease price during the auction, and so it was only 0.05%…
The management of the Evraz Sukhaya Balka Mining and Processing Works claims it has neither not initiated and nor held the meeting at the State Geology Service of Ukraine. “The administration of Evraz Sukhaya Balka, as well as the management of other Evraz Ukrainian companies, have nothing to do with the strike. As far as…
In 2016 Chelaybinsk Pipe Works and Pervouralsk Pipe Works shipped 1.713 million tons of pipes to customers, down by 15% YoY. The decrease is explained with the change in delivery schedule to Gazprom and the drop in demand. The largest decrease was in the large diameter pipes segment (27%). At the same time ChTPZ was…
In January Kuzbass region mined 18.7 million tons of coal, up by 6.3% YoY. According to the regional coal industry department, energy coal mining reached 13.3 million tons, up by 3.9% YoY, coking coal – 5.4 million tons, up by 12.5% YoY. SUEK-Kuzbass increased output by 0.6 million tons YoY, Kiyzassk and Novokuznetsk site of…
ArcelorMittal Temirtau plans to stabilize the situation with the sharp shortage of open cars necessary to transport raw materials and rolled metal within a month. The company started experiencing railroad car shortages in H2 2016. Kazakhstan used to attract some 12-15 thousand open cars from Russia each month, but now their number dropped to 3-4…
After a 6-months idleness Metal-group has resumed iron ore extraction at its Yakovlevsky mine in Belgorod region. By March almost all employees have to be engaged in the work. Annual ore output is expected to increase to 100 thousand tons. Since February 1, the operation started in limited volume, with 55% employees working. (Ukrainian metal)
