The United Railroad Car Company and Polymetal have signed an agreement on the delivery of 55 dump cars until the end of June 2020. The cars will be delivered to Varvarinskoye and will be used on the territory of Kazakhstan. Varvarinskoye is the first Polymetal enterprise in Kazakhstan with the capacity to process 4.2 million…
VIZ-Stal is switching to operating according to a new GOST 32482-2013 “Cold-rolled sheet of electric steel for transformers. Technical conditions”. The new standard covers all the EAEU countries. The new conditions fully agree with the previous GOST R 53934-2010 cancelled on August 1 by the Federal Agency on technical regulation and metrology. VIZ-Stal will accept…
In July Russia exported 1.6 thousand tons of raw chromium, up by 1% MoM and by 23% YoY. Deliveries to the US grew by 30%, to 512 tons, while to the Netherlands dropped by 33%, to 740 tons. In January-July exports totaled 10.8 thousand tons, down by 7.5% YoY. In monetary terms since the start…
In July Russia exported 1.9 thousand tons of ferrotitanium, up by 46% MoM and by 64.3% YoY. Exports to the Netherlands grew by 50%, to 1.3 thousand tons, and to China – by 20%, to 263 tons. In January-July the exports totaled 11.1 thousand tons, up by 23.2% YoY. In monetary terms since the start…
Up to 30 miners have gone to the mine in Georgia’s western Tkibuli municipality and have plans to stay there until their employer gives them and others their salaries and the government decides on the fate of mines. Work has been suspended in the Mindeli and Dzidziguri mines of Tkibuli since July 16, 2018 after…
The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan will submit the Minamata Convention for public discussion in the near future, member of the Parliament Rada Tumanbaeva reported. According to her, by joining the Minamata Convention, Kyrgyzstan will refuse to manufacture, export and import a number of mercury-containing products. “We do not have laws governing mercury-containing products. The Ministry of…
Lipetskcement, a part of Eurocement Group, has started supplying CEM I 42.5 H cement to NLMK to make briquettes of the blast furnace manufacture waste. The technique allows receiving raw materials of secondary products resulting from the manufacture of pig iron and coke, by replacing iron ore and coal raw materials. Supply volumes are estimated…
In July Russia imported 395.5 tons of raw copper, up by 42% MoM and by 589.4% YoY. All the copper came from Kazakhstan. In 7 months imports totaled 1.3 thousand tons, down by 21.6% YoY. In monetary terms since the start of the year the imports have decreased by 12.6%. Import prices have remained at…
