Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works will invest $27 million in the construction of the dust-exhaust machine at the blast furnace No. 4. The work will be completed in Q1 2022. So far, the company has installed such systems at the blast furnaces Nos. 3 and 5. Construction of the system at the BF4 began…
Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant has already shut down its furnaces Nos. 15, 16, 17 and 8, and after repairs will shut down the furnace No. 6. The reason is not only quietness on the metal market. October began with a new rise in electricity prices – by 26%. Because of this, a certain number of employees…
Interpipe has for the first time shipped railroad wheels to the Netherlands. In September, a trial batch of wheels with the diameter of 840 mm made according to EN 13262 was shipped to GBV. Now Interpipe is preparing to start producing an industrial batch of wheels for the new customer. Wheels will be used to…
The Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources has initiated the sale of the Gulyaipole deposit of iron ore in Zaporozhye region. The average price is 1.27 million UAH. The length of the deposit is 9 km and width – 3 km. The license will be valid for 20 years. (Ukrainian metal)
Because of the growing prices of coking coal, provision of by-product coke plants decreased by 15% in September. This resulted in the drop in the production of steel and pig iron leading to the increase of steel prime cost. In January-August, by-product coke plants received 8.63 million tons of coking coal, down by 1.1% YoY,…
Ukrzaliznytsia has concluded an agreement with Interpipe NTZ on the delivery of wheels valued at 110.78 million UAH. This year, the company will supply 3588 solid wheels with ultra-sound control and the diameter of 957 mm at 30,875 UAH per ton, or $1,162. The wheels must be made not earlier than in 2021. The products…
In September, Dneprovskiy Iron and Steel Works decreased rolled metal output by 41% YoY, to 13 thousand tons. Pig iron manufacture fell by 45.8%, to 13 thousand tons, and steel – by 40%, to 14 thousand tons. Coke output totaled 29 thousand tons. In January-September, DMZ produced 210 thousand tons of steel, up 2.3-fold YoY,…
The auction to privatize the United Mining and Chemical Company has been postponed to the end of November. This was done to allow all the interested parties registering in time. Out of 19 participants only 2 have been registered so far. (Ukrainian metal)