PNTZ has finished repairing its electric steel smelting shop Iron Ozon 32. The repaired machinery is expected to improve manufacture efficiency. In particular, a new heat elimination system will increase the intensity of steel manufacture, while continuous casting machines repair will speed up steel ingoting. Iron Ozon 32 is one of the most efficient pipe…
In January-September Timan Bauxite, an alumina part of Rusal, mined 2.569 million tons, down by 4.4% YoY. In Q3 978 thousand tons of products were manufactured, up by 5.6% QoQ. Excavation works amounted to 13.446 million cubic meters, up by 6.3% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
In August Russia exported 1.8 thousand tons of ferrotitanium, down by 4% MoM, but up by 6.7% YoY. Exports to the Netherlands dropped by 6%, to 1.28 thousand tons, and to Germany – by 13%, to 65.8 tons. Deliveries to China grew inconsiderably, to 270 tons. In January-August ferrotitanium exports totaled 12.9 thousand tons, up…
At the headquarters of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), the Magnitogorsk section of the conference “Best Available Technology in Blast Furnace Production” will take place. The conference was organized by the Russian Steel association, the International Union of Metallurgists and the magazine Eurasian Metals, with support from the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.…
NLMK Lipetsk, the flagship site of NLMK Group, has started commercial deliveries of S500MC and S550MC high-strength HRC (yield strength 500 and 550 MPa) to the Russian market. These steel products are used in the manufacture of dump truck bodies, scrap trucks, truck chassis, cranes and other special purpose machinery. The use of high-strength steel…
The supervisory board of Dneprospetsstal has removed three members of the board and appointed 4 new instead. According to the company press-service, Alexander Panchenko, Sergey Kasyan and Yuliya Deyeva are no longer part of the board. At the same time, from October 23 Andrey Katerusha, deputy chairman on economic safety, Maxim Zinovkin, personnel director, Sergey…
Since the start of the year Yuzhniy Kuzbass has extracted 1 million tons of coal at the Olzherasskiy pit. At present the company operates at two licensed sites – Berezovskiy and Berezovskiy-2. 9 excavators, 3 boring machines, 7 bulldozers, 2 graders as well as 23 BelAZ quarry dump trucks of various lifting capacities are used.…
Solway Investment Group, owner of Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant, is closely watching the situation with the ban of nickel ore exports from Indonesia. “So far the information from Indonesia has been controversial. We are closely watching the situation with the temporary halt of nickel ore exports and taking steps to increase purchases from other countries. For…