Growing dependency of the Russian coal industry on exports creates risks, as the external markets are volatile, president Vladimir Putin told governors of the country’s coal-producing regions on August 22. “Our consumption grew to 180 million tons last year, but we exported 210 million tons. The growing dependency on the external markets creates threats and…
Southern Kuzbass, a subsidiary of Russian metals and mining group Mechel, has launched production at a 400-million ruble longwall at the Lenin underground mine with reserves of 560,000 tons of coal, the company said in a statement on August 22. The new longwall should raise the mine’s capacity and production of coking coal. Monthly loading…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih is launching a new Ecocity project. Its goal is to support the social and environmental initiatives of the residents of Kriviy Rih on improvement and landscaping of urban areas, resource saving and rational use of waste. The best of them will be financed by the company by allocating grants. The total prize…
In January-July Severniy Mining and Processing Works increased pellets manufacture by 1.3% YoY, to 5.251 million tons. Concentrate output grew by 7.7%, to 7.12 million tons. In July SevGOK produced 816 thousand tons of pellets and 1.042 million tons of concentrate. (Ukrainian metal)
International ratings agency Fitch has improved the Petropavlovsk Plc long-term rating to B- from CCC, with positive outlook. The improvement reflects the considerable strengthening of the company liquidity due to the refinancing of convertible bonds, paying of $57 million worth of loans by IRC Limited, etc. At the same time Fitch noted that financial and…
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works is increasing rail and beam mill product range – the company has mastered the manufacture of a new channel for the construction industry. A trial batch of the 30P channel has been produced. The product quality corresponds to GOST 8240. The first batch of 20 tons has been shipped to…
Donskoy Antrazit, a part of Ukrainian DTEK, in 2018 received 709.3 million rubles of net debt as opposed to 453 million rubles of net profit in 2017. Revenue grew by 2%, to 2.1 billion rubles. Gross profit fell by 21.7%, to 475.4 million rubles, and sales profit by 27.3%, to 313 million rubles. EBITDA was…
In 2018 Obukhovskaya Mine Group, a part of Ukrainian DTEK, decreased net profit by 7.1% YoY, to 2.2 billion rubles. Revenue grew by 21.3%, to 13.7 billion rubles. Sales profit went up by 28.9%, to 4.1 billion rubles, while EBITDA dropped by 5.6%, to 2.8 billion rubles. The company accounts receivable increased from 1.3 billion…