The Ministry of energy and coal industry has set a goal to decrease the dependence on the anthracite coal, supplied from the ATO zone, by 30% per year. “In 3 years we have to be completely independent of this coal”, the minister Igor Nasalik said. According to him, on March 1, 2017 the second block…
Ukraine intends to clear its salary debts to the state miners by January 2017. According to the minister of energy coal industry Igor Nasalik, all the debts will be cleared by January 1, 2017. “The miners will be celebrating the New Year’s Day and the Christmas with enough money”, he said. In spring 2016 the…
KazElMash has opened a new works in Shymkent on the winding manufacture and the capital repairs of engines. The cost of the project is 75 million tenge, with 30 jobs created and the project capacity of 12 tons of rolled wire per year. This is the only works to produce winding in the South Kazakhstan…
In January-November raw copper output in Russia increased by 0.1%. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, copper plates, sheets, bars and bands output went up by 4.9% YoY, of rods and sections – by 19.2%, while that of wire dropped by 14.2% and of foil – by 9.4%. (Ukrainian metal)
Pervouralsk New Pipe Works, a part of ChTPZ, will supply 4 thousand tons of compressor-pump pipes to Canada. According to the contract, the company will supply 60.3 mm diameter and 4.8 mm wall thickness as well as 73 mm diameter and 5.51 mm wall thickness pipes with the length of 9.3-9.8 meters made of J55L80-1…
The Mine Group named after Space Heroes has fulfilled its annual target by mining 4.5 million tons of coal. This is the record-high result in the Mine Group history and the highest in Ukraine. In November Blagodatnaya mine was the first among DTEK enterprises to reach the annual target, with Space Heroes following in December.…
The Verkhovnaya Rada of Ukraine has provided for 150 million UAH in the state budget-2017 for the construction of Novovolynskaya mine No. 10 (Volynugol). 20 million UAH were expected to be given for construction, but then the amount was increased by 130 million UAH. The money will be provided by decreasing support to state mines.…
The production plan for 2016 at Dalur has been 100% fulfilled. By the end of the year the company plans to have mined 591 tons of uranium, on the 2015 level. “Next year we plan to start working at the Dobrovolskoye deposits in Kurgan region. Machinery to mine scandium is being assembled at our Central…