In 2015 Ukrainian companies produced 852 thousand tons of pipes, down by 39% YoY. In January-September the output dropped by 3% more, to 623 thousand tons. This output decrease could be explained by several factors. First of all, it’s market situation transformation and sales market change. Until recent times the main consumers of Ukrainian pipes…
Shareholders of Centravis Production Ukraine have dismissed Elena Antosheva from the board of directors and appointed Ruslan Zaplyusvichka instead. According to the company statement, Antosheva has been the BD member since May. Zaplyusvichka has been appointed until November 2019. He used to occupy the positions of the deputy financial director, deputy economy and provision director…
Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Works, a part of Metalloinvest, has entered the active phase of commissioning the third stage of its hot-briquetted iron works. According to the company statement, the works will start producing HBI in late 2016 – early 2017. This will be one of the largest HBI works in the world capable of…
Volnogorsk Mining and Processing Works plans to announce a purchase of 7 large quarry machines valued at 70 million UAH. According to the company statement, the tender will be announced in November at the ProZorro system of electronic purchases. (Ukrainian metal)
The state enterprise United Mining and Chemical Company estimates its investments into the acquisition of assets since September 2014 at 300 million UAH. According to the company statement, 182 million UAH was spent to buy equipment for Volnogorsk Mining and Processing Works, with some 112 million UAH – for Irshansk Mining and Processing Works. In…
In January-October Ferrexpo plc, controlling Poltava and Yeristovo Mining and Processing Works produced 9.25 million tons of pellets, down by 4.6% YoY. According to a company representative, its concentrate output went up by 1.9% YoY, to 11.72 million tons. In October 930 thousand tons of pellets and 1.14 million tons of concentrate was produced. Ferrexpo…
In January-October Interpipe-Steel produced 522 thousand tons of steel, up by 6.3% YoY. According to a company representative, in October steel smelting totaled 58 thousand tons, down from 64 thousand tons in September. On October 28, the works halted its operation for 10 days to carry out scheduled repairs. (Ukrainian metal)
On November 3, ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih witnessed an environment strike. 15 city public organizations went on a strike against AMKR polluting the environment. In response the company said that all its ecological projects for the past 10 years were aimed at the step-by-step replacement of the outdated machinery with more environment-friendly equipment and implementation of…