The board of directors of Sredneuralsk Copper Smelting Works at its meeting on October 22 approved of opening a credit line for 5.6 billion rubles with Gazprombank. The interest rate will be 12% in rubles and 9% in euros and dollars. The funds will be borrowed in order to refinance the company liabilities to other…
Kola Iron and Steel Company has repaired its reverberatory furnace No. 1 in the metallurgical shop. The repair lasted for 10 months and became the largest volume- and cost-wise in the company 40-year history. The capacity of the furnace is 350-400 tons of copper matte per day. The repair cost was 130 million rubles. (Ukrainian…
In January-September Norilsk Nickel net profit grew almost 2.7-fold YoY, to 389.5 billion rubles. Revenue increased by 42%, to 636.4 billion rubles. Gross profit went up by 48%, to 416 billion rubles. Sales profit reached 381.5 billion rubles, up 1.5-fold, and EBITDA – 469 billion rubles, up 2.5-fold. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-September Ukrzaliznytsia increased iron and manganese ore transportation by 3.5% YoY, to 51.8 thousand tons. According to the State Statistics Service, ferrous scrap transportation dropped by 17.7%, to 1.8 thousand tons. Transportation of ferrous metals decreased by 2.9%, to 14.6 thousand tons, and coke – by 9.2%, to 3.3 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-September Bratsk Ferroalloys Works increased FS75 ferrosilicon manufacture by 43% YoY. Sales grew by 51%. Ferrosilicon is mostly exported, including to new customers from the Asian-Pacific Region. (Ukrainian metal)
Beloretsk Iron and Steel Works has finished capital repairs of a main manufacturing shop – rolling mill-150 to produce steel billets for wire. 70 million rubles were invested in the repair. The mill was commissioned in 1979. It has an annual capacity of 600 thousand tons of high-quality wire rod. In 40 years the mill…
Rimera-Service has passed attestation of correspondence of its products to Rosneft technical requirements. The specialists have checked the main processes to manufacture pump-compressor pipes of billets supplied by ChTPZ. Following the audit the Rimera-Service products were considered corresponding to Rosneft requirements 6.0. (Ukrainian metal)
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) and Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant (ChelPipe) held their 25th coordination council, dedicated to cooperation between the two companies. The meeting was attended by MMK Deputy General Director for Sales Sergey Ushakov, Director for Procurement and Logistics of ChelPipe Alexey Talnikov, as well as representatives of the technical, production and commercial…
