Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works is finishing the disassembly of the slitting unit No. 11 in the metal treatment shop No. 3. Until January 2020, foundation will be laid for a new unit to cut wide rolled metal. Machinery will be supplied and assembled by Salico, Italy. The project is expected to be completed in…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has signed an agreement valued at almost $30 million with CISDI (China) to modernize its largest blast furnace No. 9. The Chinese company will design, supply and assemble the main machinery, as well as train the AMKR personnel. Last year a major accident occurred at the blast furnace. Since February 2018, the…
Central Mining and Processing Works together with the Krivoy Rog botanic garden is taking measures to reclaim spoil heaps. CGOK is planting cane at the tail dumps to prevent dust spreading. So far, the size of the plantings has reached 100 ha. This year it will grow by 50 ha more. In 2018 CGOK decreased…
NLMK Group, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment of the Russian Federation, the Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service (Rosprirodnadzor) and the Administration of the Lipetsk region have signed a four-way Cooperation Agreement in sustainable development. The Agreement, which forms part of the National Ecology Project, was signed by Grigory Fedorishin, NLMK Group…
NLMK Group has started hot testing at its briquetting plant, a facility to manufacture metallurgical briquettes for use in blast furnace operations. The project will enable the production of feedstock from blast furnace by-products, and the recycling of previously accumulated waste. The production technology is NLMK’s in-house development. It was conceptualized by Ivan Kurunov, an…
Interpipe Niko Tube has passed the pre-qualification of the supplier to the major American distributor of pipe products Distribution NOW. Last year Tuboscope Vetco at the Distribution NOW request carried out a pre-qualification audit of Interpipe Niko Tube. The results were positive, and the plant received the status of the approved supplier. The certificate is…
Wadless Holdings Limited (Cyprus) has filed a claim to the Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works demanding the recovery of the debt on dividends valued at 132.32 million UAH. The company owns 21.16 million shares of UGOK and thus is entitled to the dividends of 132.32 million UAH (6.25 UAH per ordinary share), according to the…
Vorkutaugol has started operating at a new long face. The reserves of the face are estimated at 754 thousand tons of coking coal. The design output of the face is some 1.5 thousand tons of coal per day. The development of the face will last till October 2020. (Ukrainian metal)
