Lydian Armenia, operating at the Amulsar deposits in Jermuk, will receive its first gold nugget in March 2018. The construction works in Jermuk are underway and will last for 18 months. “We are prepared to invest $370 million and create 700 jobs in 10 years. The program presupposes the annual gold exports of $259 million”,…
The Rosprirodnadzor (the Federal service of supervision in environment) has found out that Mechel-koks works in Chelyabinsk has been polluting the air. The service ruled the polluting equipment to be shut down. The service is preparing documents for the court to shut down the works for 90 days. Mechel-koks does not agree with the service…
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works, a part of Mechel, has successfully passed the re-certification audit for the compliance of its construction materials with the state standards. The company has received certificates for 14 types of products, including the flange beam, the manufacture of which has started in the beam-rail shop. The certificates allow the company…
In 2016 Zaporozhogneupor increased tax payments to the local budget by 74%, or by 12.6 million UAH, to 29.6 million UAH. According to the company statement, in 2015 it paid 17 million UAH of taxes. The key factors for the increase of taxes in 2016 were the growth of salary by 23% and payments for…
The Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works will have additional expenses of 700 million UAH following the increase of railroad tariffs, and 10% of its products will become profitless, the company CEO Yuri Zinchenko said. “In case of another tariff increase 10% of our 2017 orders will automatically become profitless. Why? Because the prime cost…
Ukraine expects the European Union to cancel the antidumping duty on the import of steel ropes after almost 19 years, the deputy economy development and trade minister, the trade representative of Ukraine Natalia Mykolskaya wrote on her Facebook page. She noted, these were the last antidumping measures against Ukrainian export to EU. “These measures resulted…
The mine named after Zasyadko in the pro-Russian terrorist-occupied Donetsk resumed operation after shelling. “The energy supply to the mine has been restored, the miners started working”, the separatist media report. The mine was cut off from electricity on January 31, following intense shelling. Some 200 miners remained underground. During the day they have all…
The salary debts to state miners decreased by 83%, to 36.9 million UAH as of January 1. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, the debts decreased by 75.5% YoY, or by 111.66 million UAH. On the whole as of January 1, the state enterprises managed by the ministry and situated on the…
