In summer 2017 construction of the Bratsk Electrometallurgical Works (Irkutsk region) will commence. At present the construction site for the mini-mill is being prepared. When the works is put into operation, it will create 600 jobs. In September the project was suspended because of the lack of investors. Investments are estimated at 7.3 billion rubles.…
Metinvest has started cooperation with Unisteel that has been idle for 4 years. The company will produce flat galvanized rolled metal to decrease the import share on the Ukrainian market. Soon Metinvest will start selling rolled metal produced at Unisteel. “Mariupol Ilyich has sent its first thousand tons of semi-finished rolled products to Unisteel”, Metinvest-SMC…
In January-November Kemerovo region miners yielded 206.9 million tons of coal, up by 5.9% YoY. More than half of the total volume (133.7 million tons) was extracted via open-pit mining. The processing share in the total volume of coal mining reached 70.6%. Miners extracted 59.6 million tons of coking coal, up by 4.4% YoY. (Ukrainian…
In November Novgorod Iron and Steel Works, a part of the Russian Copper Company, produced 6 thousand tons of copper cathodes, which was the best result since the company was put into operation in 2003. In December the output is expected to increase to 6.2 thousand tons. At first the capacity of the works was…
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2 years ago Karaganda Silicon Works was put back into operation after a long idle period. Now it plans to produce 23 thousand tons of products per year. Purity of the silicon produced at the works is almost 99%. The raw material base of the company is its own quartz deposits of 4 million tons.…
Gold output on the Urup Island of Russia’s Kuril Islands will fall by 100 kilograms to 1.583 tons in 2016, but silver output will rise to 4.274 tons from 3.327 tons, local precious metals producer Kurilgeo said. Despite the production cut, revenue from the sales of gold is to increase by 11% to 4.3 billion…
The Belarus government has set order volumes for scrap and ferrous and non-ferrous waste deliveries for state needs in 2017. Next year the country plans to procure 1.29 million tons of ferrous scrap and waste, as well as 19.2 thousand tons of non-ferrous scrap and waste. In particular, the Industry Ministry is supposed to procure…