Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has completed a number of capital repairs of machinery in the electric steel shops. In particular, a slab unit of the continuous casting machine No. 1 was repaired, ladle furnace No. 2 and steel degassing units. One of the most important repairs was carried out at the shaft furnace No.…
This year Polymetal intends to start constructing a factory in Krasnoturyinsk to process polymetallic ores in order to extract gold, silver, as well as copper and zinc concentrate. The factory is expected to be commissioned in 2022. Its design capacity will be 450 thousand tons of ore per year. Investments in the project will exceed…
Lvivugol miners have announced a strike and blocked an international highway as a protest to non-payment of salary. The participants of the strike demand the payment of hard-earned money. So far, only media have drawn their attention to the strike. Neither representatives of the enterprise administration nor regional authorities have spoken to them. Wage arrears…
Railroad deliveries of limestone in January-May dropped by 8% YoY, to 4.5 million tons. At the same time, in May they grew by 3%, to 1.1 million tons, the largest result since the start of the year. In 5 months deliveries to Donetsk region increased from 30% to 40%. Deliveries to metal companies decreased by…
In January-May railroad deliveries of lime grew by 42% YoY, to 180 thousand tons. The first months of the year witnessed the growth of deliveries to metal companies, while chemical enterprises considerably decreased their purchases. The main consumers of lime were ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih (didn’t buy lime last year), Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine (+43%)…
Russian Copper Company investments in the development of its mining and metal capacities in Russia and Kazakhstan will exceed $1 billion in 2019, up by 4% YoY. More than $900 million will be invested in Russia, including $652 million in mining. The main investment projects this year will be the construction of the Tominsky Mining…
The annual shareholders meeting of Ferrexpo has approved record-high dividends for 2018 – $0.231 per share, up by 40% YoY ($0.165). Shareholders owing 99.73% of shares voted for the final dividends in the amount of $0.06 per share. The meeting also reviewed the company operational report for 2018, with 66.69% voting in favor of it,…
Russian aluminum giant RUSAL plans to finance its 2019 capex of $800-900 million with its own funds, CEO Yevgeny Nikitin declared. “Speaking about capital expenditures of the company in general, we forecast them at the level of the last year, I mean, about $800-900 million. Everything will be financed from our own money, we do…
