Avellana Gold (Cyprus) intends to start mining polymetallic ores in Western Ukraine. “The management of the State geology service has recently had an official meeting with the American representatives of the company. The parties discussed main terms of mineral resources mining. The investor has acquired companies with licenses to mine and prospect polymetallic ores”, said…
Russia continues increasing metal imports. In June it imported 326 thousand tons of metal (without pig iron, ferroalloys, wastes and scrap), up by 11% MoM. Pipe imports remain low – at 30 thousand tons per month. In H1 Russia imported 1.52 million tons of ferrous metal, down by 4% YoY. The drop was caused by…
Corum Group plans to increase industrial capacities of the Krivoy Rog Mining Machinery Works by 30%. According to the group CEO Yakov Sidlyarenko, it also wants to buy boring machines for Svet Shakhtera Works (Kharkiv) enabling it to increase tunneling machine manufacture by 66%, to 20 units per year. (Ukrainian metal)
Shares of NLMK Group, an international steel company with operations in Russia, the United States, and Europe, were raised to the First Level quotation list, the premium-listing segment for securities admitted to trading on the Moscow Exchange. A First Level listing means that a company must meet the high standards of corporate governance, market capitalization…
The SCM Group corporate social responsibility results for January-June 2016 consolidated in course of preparations of the Group’s non-financial report. In H1 SCM Group paid 16.92 billion UAH in taxes to local and national budgets, showing a 7.7% rise YoY. The company invested about 6 billion UAH in modernization of its production facilities, a similar…
The minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Igor Nasalik has dismissed Alexei Potanin from the office of the acting general director of Lisichanskugol. According to the company statement, Potatin has been in the office since mid-June, following Boris Perepelitsa, who has been in charge for some 3 months. Lisichanskugol mines energy-generating coal and…
After 2 years of idleness Zaporozhye Aluminum Works has resumed the operation of it’s aluminum wire rod line. The shop started producing 9.5, 12.5 and 15.1 mm aluminum wire rod of A7E and A5E 15-20 kg aluminum ingots. On the first day the works produced 40 tons of wire rod. The manufacturing capacity of the…
The Dniepropetrovsk Commercial Court of Appeals has refused to satisfy the appeal of Interpipe Niko Tube as to the decision of the Commercial Court of Dniepropetrovsk region of June 6. According to the decree, the company being a guarantor has to pay Alfa-Bank 1.2 billion UAH of loan debt of Nizhnedneprovsk Tube Plant. (Ukrainian metal)