The Primorye region stops exporting ferrous scrap and wastes through the seaports of Nakhodka and Vostochniy. The new rules come into effect on July 22. The scrap export limitation will be valid for 5 months. So far this year Nakhodka customs has approved 95.5 thousand tons of scrap for exports. (Ukrainian metal)
In September the Aluminum Works in the city of Volgograd will resume primary aluminum manufacture, suspended 5 years ago. Autumn will also see the commissioning of the baked anode factory. The cost of each project is some 8 billion rubles. The electrolysis manufacture at the works was suspended in August 2013 by Rusal because of…
The expert council of the Industry Development Fund has approved of 5 loans for projects in Samara, Kirov, Bryansk and Krasnodar regions. The total cost of the projects exceeds 1.1 billion rubles, with IDF providing over 675 million rubles. In particular, Unecha Works of Refractory Metals (Bryansk region) will be provided with the loan of…
Severstal Steel Decisions has resumed supplies of metal structures for the closed theme zone of the Dream Isle amusement park in Moscow. As of June, the company has produced and shipped 2.268 thousand tons of metal structures, made of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works steel. Assembly of the metal structures started in March. (Ukrainian metal)
Kirov Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Works has finished the main stage of its capacity modernization. The company is commissioning three machines with the combined cost of 1.4 billion rubles: a cold-rolling mill, modernized transfer tables of the hot-rolling mill and the Salico slitting and shearing line. The Kvarto-450 cold-rolling mill modernization was the most expensive. The…
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has been visited by the participants of the First Conference on Industrial and Scientific Cooperation between the Chelyabinsk region and the Chinese province of Heilongjiang. The goal of the visit was to get acquainted with the operation of the rail-beam mill. In May the works produced a trial batch of…
MMK has assembled a new air-separation machine valued at 4.2 billion rubles in the oxygen shop No. 5. The machine can produce 35 thousand cubic meters of industrial oxygen and 30 thousand cubic meters of pure nitrogen, as well as some 1 thousand cubic meters of argon. The new machine will be able to save…
Evraz Kachkanarsky Mining and Processing Works has shipped the 150-millionth ton of sinter to the blast furnace shop of Evraz NTMK. This sinter has improved metallurgical qualities. Iron contents reach 57%, and vanadium pentoxide – 0.55%. The sinter shop produces over 3.5 million tons of sinter per year. It operates 2 sintering machines. Evraz NTMK…
During the construction of a mine in Lviv region, the prosecutors have uncovered embezzlement of funds. The Chervonograd prosecutor’s office has found out that during the mine construction, the volume of the works was illegally increased by 400 thousand UAH. The mine belongs to the state enterprise Volynugol. (Ukrainian metal)
In June under the contract with ArcelorMittal, Energomashspetsstal shipped several batches of rolls to the enterprises. The total volume reached 400 tons. The working and supporting rolls of the EMSS brand will be used in cold- and hot-rolling mills. In particular, for ArcelorMittal Temirtau EMSS shipped 116 tons of supporting rolls. 200 tons were supplied…
In May, according to the customs statistics, Russia imported 91.9 thousand tons of bars and sections from Ukraine, up 1.8-fold YoY. In January-May imports totaled 485.6 thousand tons, up 2-fold YoY. This also represents some 75% of the total Russian imports of bars and sections. (Ukrainian metal)
In June, according to the railroad statistics, Evraz ZSMK received 176.3 thousand tons of scrap, down by 3.9% YoY. In 6 months scrap deliveries reached 597.7 thousand tons, down by 16.3% YoY. The company occupies the fourth place in the industry on scrap deliveries via railroad. (Ukrainian metal)