Russian metallurgical company Ruspolymet plans to launch a 1.14 billion ruble plant to produce powdered high-speed steel billets for metal-cutting tools in the Sarov technological cluster in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the company’s board of directors chairman Viktor Klochai announced. The project will be implemented by Ruspolymet’s subsidiary Grankom under state industrial corporation Rosatom’s scientific…
The Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman said that in 3-5 years the country would be able to cope without anthracite coal from the occupied territories of Donbass. “To carry out the modernization and replace this coal with, say, gas-generating group, which is mined on controlled territory, we will need some 3-5 years and around 15…
In February Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works and Azovstal, both parts of Metinvest, decreased output by 10% because of the ATO zone railroad blockade. “Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Works receives electricity from Zuyevskaya TPP, situated on the uncontrolled territory, but registered in Ukraine. This power plant can only use coal mined in Pavlograd and…
Severstal Stalniye Resheniya, a part of Severstal Russian Steel, has started producing metal structures for the construction of the covered skating rink with artificial ice in Alexandrov, Vladimir region. The total weight of the structures will exceed 350 tons. The covered skating rink will be a one-story building with the total square of 3240 square…
The Ministry of energy and coal industry has developed 4 projects on replacing anthracite coal mined in Donbass and has already implemented 2 of them. According to the energy and coal industry minister Igor Nasalik, one project will decrease anthracite coal consumption by at least 1 million tons. “This project is connected with the Rovno…
In 2016 Zaporizhstal consumed 160 million cubic meters of gas, down by 22% YoY, or by 44 million cubic meters. According to the company, such results have been reached due to the complex energy-saving program across the company. “The major measure was the project on coking gas supply from Zaporozhkoks to Zaporizhstal shops”, the company…
Chepets Mechanical Works, a part of TVEL, has shipped the first batch of titanium to a European customer. The delivery was carried out under the 5-year contract, signed in December 2016 with a major foreign distributor. “According to the agreement the ChMZ specialists have worked out a product portfolio that is in demand on the…
Coal stocks at Ukrainian thermal power plants on February 6-12, decreased by 4.9%, or by 79 thousand tons, to 1.53 million tons. Gas-group coal stocks dropped by 8.4%, or by 63 thousand tons, to 688 thousand tons (with 121 thousand tons at Burshtyn TPP). Anthracite coal stocks decreased by 1.8%, or by 16 thousand tons,…