Sukhaya Balka has invested 13 million UAH in the purchase of new mining machinery – 30 mine trolleys and a large-capacity Derui Druk 20 dump truck. The new truck will operate at the Mine named after Frunze. The first batch of mine trolleys has already been received and is operating at the Yubileynaya mine. (Ukrainian…
Marganets Mining ad Processing Works has increased the financing of the construction of the manganese ore slurry processing shop by 35 million UAH, to 593 million UAH. The decision was taken at the supervisory board meeting on April 12. In late 2020, the general contractor – Maksiprom Grupp LLC – announced the construction of a…
Metinvest has started supplying its own coal to ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih. “These are trial batches. We have never used their coal before. It has certain peculiarities, which affect coke quality. So we need a new recipe, which we are developing. Metinvest will take excess coke from us, as due to war they can no longer…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih will consider launching its blast furnace No. 9, the largest in Europe, not earlier than June. “Until the end of May we should reach the 100% capacity on iron ore and 50-60% in metal manufacture. When everything is operating smoothly, we will think about launching the BF9,” the company CEO Mauro Longobardo…
Ukrmetallurgprom will suspend its membership in the Worldsteel Association until Russia is removed from it. In his letter to the association, the enterprise president Oleksandr Kalenkov said, that the war, which in Russia was cynically called “special operation”, had been going on for over a month now. Since its start, the Russian troops have demonstrated…
On May 2, ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to launch blast furnace No. 8. “The loading of raw materials, the blowing of the furnace and the production of the first pig iron from the newly launched blast furnace No. 6 will be a historical event, as we are doing this during war,” the company CEO Mauro…
The Severniy Mining and Processing Works has started producing concentrate with high content of iron. In particular, the iron content was increased to 67%. This has been achieved with the distribution of ore flows from quarries. The same was used during the global crisis in metallurgy in 2008 to retain sales markets. (Ukrainian metal)
Corum Group has launched manufacture in Khmelnitskiy and Volyn regions. The company has already started producing equipment and spare parts for the DTEK Energo mines. The site in Khmelnitskiy region will produce anchoring and fire pipes. (Ukrainian metal)