Russia: MMK initiates important environmental project

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), as part of its environmental program, has begun reconstruction of the gas outlet at the sinter plant No. 3. This will significantly reduce the plant’s anthropogenic impact on the environment. The project’s investment will amount to 190 million rubles. The reconstruction project will replace the duct, which connects the…

Russia: MMK continues robotization of business processes

As part of the project to implement business process automation at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), MMK-Informservice has entered into a general partnership agreement with UiPath, a world leader in producing software platforms for robotic process automation (RPA). The partnership will improve the efficiency of MMK’s large-scale project to automate business processes by…

Russia: coal export revenue up in January-July 2019

Russia’s income from coal exports in January-July grew by 9.2% YoY, to $9.798 billion. In January-July 2018 exports revenue was $8.977 billion. Volume-wise the exports increased by 9.1%, to 118.374 million tons. In 2018 coal export revenue went up by 25.9% YoY, to $17.031 billion. Volume-wise exports grew by 10%, to 199.472 million tons. (Ukrainian…

Armenia: aluminum foil exports up in H1 2019

In January-June Armenia exported 16.8 thousand tons of aluminum foil, up by 0.8% YoY, valued at $49.8 million, down by 9.1%. According to the Customs Service, the foil was exported to the US (33.1%), Germany (25.5%), the Netherlands (11.4%), Poland (9.5%), France (7%), Italy (5.8%), Austria (3.4%), Denmark (1.5%), the UK (1.2%), the Czech Republic…