Russian gold production rose by 11% YoY, but fell by 12.8% MoM in September, the Federal State Statistics Service said in a report. In January-September gold production grew by 20.2% YoY. No absolute figures were disclosed. (Prime/Ukrainian metal)
The Antimonopoly committee of Ukraine has fined Corum Ukraine for 53 million UAH and the scientific and manufacturing company Mining Machines for 3.3 million UAH for the breach of the legislation on economic competitiveness protection. The AMCU found out about the violations at the three auctions held by the state enterprise Lvivugol, in which the…
The Ministry of economy, trade and agriculture development expects steel output in 2019 to grow by 4% YoY, to 21.927 million tons. The ministry believes that rolled metal manufacture will increase by 3%, to 18.842 million tons, and pig iron – by 1%, to 20.69 million tons. The forecast is based on the output in…
In January-June air pollution in Krivoy Rog increased by 15% YoY. According to the environment department of the city council, in particular, ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih increased pollution by 27%, InGOK – by 15%, Metinvest KRMZ – by 13%, Sukhaya Balka – by 3% and CGOK – by 1.6%. The worst situation in Q3 was at…
In January-September Sukhaya Balka Mine decreased iron ore output by 1.1% YoY, to 2.015 million tons. In September iron ore output totaled 214 thousand tons. In 2018 output increased by 8.4% YoY, to 2.725 million tons. The capacity of the mine is 3.1 million tons of ore per year. (Ukrainian metal)
In September Ukraine exported 5.36 million tons of semi-finished steel products valued at $2.24 million, up by 9.4% and by 8.2% YoY respectively. The share of semis in the exports exceeded 6%. More than half was shipped to Italy (34%), Egypt (15.5%) and Turkey (14.8%). (Ukrainian metal)
In September Beloretsk Iron and Steel Works increased metal wares sales. In particular, the sales of rods with special surface treatment for the manufacture of springs and fasteners for car and aviation industries grew 3-fold MoM. Sales of steel sections for car industry increased by 43%. High-strength wire for ferroconcrete wares and gauged rolled metal…
NLMK Lipetsk, the flagship site of NLMK Group, has supplied a trial batch of pre-painted steel with improved coating quality to leading white goods manufacturer LG Electronics plant in Russia. NLMK steel will be used to make washing machine bodies. The trial batch has been successfully tested at LG Electronics Rus plant in the Moscow…