In November 2019 Russia imported 54.1 thousand tons of chrome ore and concentrate, down by 17% MoM and by 34% YoY. Deliveries from Kazakhstan dropped from 59.6 thousand tons to 49.3 thousand tons, and from South Africa from 5.7 thousand tons to 4.7 thousand tons. In 11 months of 2019 imports totaled 846.8 thousand tons,…
In November 2019 Russia exported 6.4 thousand tons of ferromanganese, down by 10% MoM, but up by 108% YoY. Deliveries to US grew from 4.2 thousand tons to 4.9 thousand tons, and to Ukraine – 3-fold, to 1.1 thousand tons. At the same time exports to Belarus dropped by 70% and to Kazakhstan by 29%,…
The steel output of Severstal contracted by 2% YoY, to 11.847 million tons in 2019 hurt by lower output in the second half of the year after the sale of a long products plant, the company said in a statement on January 17. The negative effect of the sale was partially offset by higher production…
In November 2019 Russia imported 15.7 thousand tons of ferrosilicomanganese, up by 10% MoM and by 2% YoY. Deliveries from Georgia dropped to 7 thousand tons, while imports from Kazakhstan grew by 36%, to 7.5 thousand tons. In 11 months of 2019 imports totaled 165 thousand tons, down by 4% YoY. In monetary terms since…
In 2018 Chukotka Autonomous District yielded 24.45 tons of gold, up by 1% YoY. In particular, ore gold output grew by 3%, to 22.1 tons, while that of alluvial gold fell by 9%, to 2.35 tons. Silver extraction remained unchanged – 111.7 tons. (Ukrainian metal)
Verkhnevolzhsky Service Metal Center has officially commissioned a new slitting machine. The machine can cut rolled metal of carbon and stainless steel, aluminum and copper with the thickness of 0.2 mm. The equipment was supplied by Fagor. The companies have been cooperating for more than 14 years. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2019 SMC-Kolpino shipped 16 thousand tons of steel billets to wind energy enterprises, up more than 2-fold YoY. The works to produce wind energy units Bashni WRS was the main customer of the company. It is a joint venture of Severstal, Rosnano and Windar Renovables S.L. “This year we intend to increase sales. In…
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has implemented a system for recording multi-turn actuators using modern marking technology in the form of radio frequency identification tags (RFID). Marking with RFID tags has replaced the process of applying information manually with paint and barcoding. The goal of implementing the new technology is to improve the quality…