The coal from the territory of the so-called Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics could become useless. Ukraine was forced to buy coal from the occupied territories, but now could stop the purchases altogether. According to the first deputy chairman of the BPP fraction Igor Kononenko, Ukraine had to buy the separatist coal in order not…
Samarskaya mine has put long face No. 4202 into operation. Its 569 thousand tons of coal will allow the miners to work for a year. The face length is 184 meters. The average daily output is expected to exceed 2 thousand tons of coal. (Ukrainian metal)
The Verkhovnaya Rada of Ukraine has provided for 870 million UAH in the state budget-2017 under the state coal companies support program by partially compensating for the coal extraction expenses. Moreover, the construction of the Novovolynskaya No. 10 mine will get 150 million UAH, taking into account the previously given 20 million UAH. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-October Kazakhstan exported 87.3 thousand tons of steel pipes to Russia, up by 41% YoY. The result even exceeds the whole 2015 level by 8%. The average price of the pipes on the Russian-Kazakh border in October totaled $800.7 per ton, down by 8%. Pipes for oil and gas pipelines with the diameter of…
Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche S.p.A (Italy) and Baku Steel Company (Azerbaijan) have signed an agreement to invest 1.225 billion euro into the creation of the new iron and steel complex of 5 works. “Sumgait will see the construction of 5 works in 3 years”, the economy minister Shakhin Mustafayev said. The project will create…
Robert Reisetbauer, a member of the supervisory board and the vice-president of the PriMetals Technology (Austria), has chaired a round table on the steel smelting reconstruction and the construction of the hot-rolled coils production complex at Zaporizhstal. He believes that the environment technologies applied at the project will meet the best practices. “We would use…
In December StalTrans intends to sell 2.6 thousand tons of metal wares, up by 11% MoM. According to the company statement, the main increase is expected in wire – by 16% MoM, to 1.6 thousand tons. Nail supplies will not change considerably and will total around 0.8 thousand tons. In January-November the company supplied 36…
Major Ukrainian ferroalloy companies (Nikopol and Zaporozhye Ferro Alloy Works), as well as Ordzhonikidze and Marganets Mining and Processing Works, all parts of the Privat Group, continue operating according to their manufacturing plans. Earlier due to the nationalization of PrivatBank the companies accounts were blocked. PrivatBank also managed Stakhanov Ferroalloys Plant, ZZF, MGOK and OGOK…
