Shareholders of Komsomolskoye Mine Group have decided to increase the supervisory board from 1 member to 5. According to the company statement, Yuri Ryzhenkov, Alexander Pogozhev, Julia Dankova, Svetlana Romanova and Olga Larina (all of them top-managers at Metinvest Holding) have become members of the supervisory board. They have been elected for 3 years. At…
Two of the largest blast furnaces at Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works set new records for monthly volumes of pig iron in April. Blast furnace No. 9 produced 157.49 thousand tons of pig iron, beating its previous monthly record of 153.52 thousand tons, set in July 2013. Blast furnace No. 10 also set its own…
Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works wasn’t able to reach its output target in April. The reasons haven’t changed since the year start: absence of raw materials, lack of coke and scrap. According to the company statement, in April it produced 59.6 thousand tons of sinter less. Blast furnaces stood idle because of the lack of…
In April scrap shortage in Ukraine totaled 34 thousand tons, or 12% of the metal companies need. “With scrap deficiency imports of Russian hot-briquetted iron (HBI) increased 9.6 times”, said Interpipe. Local market received 264 thousand tons of scrap, while it needed 298 thousand tons. “Ukraine wasn’t able to satisfy its needs because of the…
Energomashspetsstal has cast and forged the hemispheric ingot weighing 125 tons for the manufacture of the high-pressure steam-generator shell for Kudankulam nuclear power station in India. “Taking into account technical characteristics, this ingot is the only one on the ex-USSR territory. The shell is also the first product of such weight to be produced from…
In April Ukraine produced 2063 thousand tons of pig iron (68.8 thousand tons on average per day, up by 4% MoM), 2201 thousand tons of steel (73.4 thousand tons, up by 5% MoM) and 1967 thousand tons of rolled metal (65.6 thousand tons, up by 8% MoM). In January-April output was as follows: pig iron…
Shareholders of Donetskkoks have decided to increase the supervisory board from 1 member to 5. According to the company statement, Yuri Ryzhenkov, Alexander Pogozhev, Julia Dankova, Svetlana Romanova (all of them top managers at Metinvest Holding) and Maxim Novikov (Ingulets Mining and Processing Works legal department director) have been elected members of the board for…
Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest refined nickel and palladium producer, hosted its annual strategy day. The management reported on the main results of the completed strategic cycle of 2013-2015 and set key goals and priorities for the next strategic cycle of 2016-2018. In 2013-2015, a significant progress was achieved in transforming Norilsk Nickel into a…