In June Russia imported 753 tons of magnesium, including scrap, down by 8% MoM, but up by 407% YoY. The share of China was 99.8%. In H1 magnesium imports reached 4.5 thousand tons, up by 50.8% YoY. In monetary terms since the start of the year the imports have grown by 73.5%. Import prices in…
In June Russia exported 13.8 thousand tons of raw nickel, up by 70% MoM and by 26.2% YoY. Switzerland accounted for a third of exports. In H1 zinc exports totaled 71 thousand tons, up by 4.3% YoY. In monetary terms since the start of the year the exports have decreased by 7.6%. Export prices have…
The manufacturing cooperative Plamya, developing alluvial gold sites in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), since the start of the washing season has obtained some 100 kg of gold. The quota for the company this year amounts to 280 kg. Compared with the previous year the output has decreased somewhat due to the thinning of reserves,…
The online-site to sell Chusovoy Iron and Steel Works spring products opened in June 2018. In a year some 3600 car springs have been sold, including 2700 in January-June. ChMZ used to sell springs directly to end customers only via its network. With the opening of the e-store the company was able to increase the…
Mechel-Service LLC has supplied the first 2 thousand tons of flanged beams to its new warehouse in Kinel in Samara region. The beams are manufactured at Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works. The warehouse with the size of 5 thousand square meters will store 3 thousand tons of beams, The beams will be sold in the…
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has mastered the manufacture of several new types of galvanized metal. Now the portfolio for construction clients has been expanded with galvanized metal with high galvanizing class (Z350, Z450 and Z600). Such metal is used in the manufacture of corrugated pipes for road construction, elevators, silo towers, etc. Several products…
The electric arc furnace shop of Oskol Electrometallurgical Works has produced the 80-millionth ton of steel. It took the company 35 years to reach the milestone. Last year OEMK produced 3435 thousand tons of steel. The main customers of OEMK on the Russian market are enterprises of the car, machine-building, pipe, metal wares and bearing…
Severstal-Metiz at its Cherepovets site has started marking rods with color. Variants of marking depend on steel grade. For each customer a separate color marking has been chosen. At present the company uses 11 base colors and 19 combinations of 2 colors. The marking simplifies and speeds up the process of identification of metal at…