Russian billionaire businessman Viktor Vekselberg is weighing the purchase of a stake in aluminum giant UC Rusal from Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Group, Vekselberg said. The acquisition is being “seriously considered”, Vekselberg noted, declining to give any details on the terms of a potential deal. Onexim made informal approaches this year to sell its 17% stake…
The minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik has not cleared all the salary debts to state miners by the Miners’ Day. He promised to do this in mid-July. As of August 31, the employees of at least one mine haven’t received their salary, those of Novovolynskaya No. 10, who have blocked the road.…
On September 1, Metinvest created the operational directorship on the basis of its mining and metal divisions. “Thus the group completes the process of creating the vertically integrated structure of the company under the Technological strategy of 2010”, Metinvest reported. The main goal of the transformation is the better cooperation of mining and metal assets,…
In January-June Chelyabinsk Zinc Works received 12.53 billion RUR of profits, up by 4.11% YoY. The company gross profits dropped by 4% YoY, to 3.64 billion RUR, while its net profits decreased by 40.72% YoY, to 1.85 billion RUR. According to the company statement, the net profits drop was the result of the zinc and…
The State Property Fund of Ukraine will try to sell 37.578% of Lviv Coal Company again. According to the fund statement, the shares will be put up for sale on September 27, at the Ukrainian Stock Exchange with the starting price of 41.34 million UAH. SPF tried to sell the Lviv Coal Company shares in…
Corum Group is negotiating ways to enter markets of Turkey, Iran and India. According to the company CEO Yakov Sidlyarenko, Corum Group’s current primary goal is to increase export sales in Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia, Poland and Vietnam. (Ukrainian metal)
In August Zaporizhstal decreased pig iron, steel and rolled metal output. In particular, according to the company statement, it produced 297.3 thousand tons of pig iron, 322.2 thousand tons of steel and 275.1 thousand tons of rolled metal, down by 29 thousand tons, 27.5 thousand tons and 15.6 thousand tons YoY, respectively. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-August Ukraine produced 16.43 million tons of carbon steel, up by 9.3% YoY. Pig iron manufacture went up by 14.5%, to 15.99 million tons, that of rolled metal – by 8.7%, to 14.34 million tons. Metallurgical coke output jumped up by 17.6%, to 8.64 million tons, while that of steel pipes dropped by 4.8%,…