Izhstal has installed a water decaling unit at the rolling mill-450. It will improve the quality of metal products. The unit has been assembled by the company specialists of Russian parts. Mill-450 produces round, square and band rolled metal. In 2018 the mill produced 135 thousand tons, up by 17% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
Volzhsky Pipe and Sections Works has put into operation a new pipe-welding machine 20-89 manufactured by DMC Tech Corporation. Now the company operates 7 mills. Water and gas pipeline pipe with the diameter of 20 and 25 mm has been added to the company product portfolio. The company has also mastered the manufacture of pipes…
Jensen Metal Ltd from the Liepaja Free Economic Zone has opened a new manufacture in the Karosta industrial park. Investments almost reached EUR 10 million. Of them 7.3 million were spent on construction and 2.5 million on machinery. With the new plant operating the company will increase its capacity by 50%. At the site with…
In June the Northern Railroad transported 5.2 million tons of cargo, up by 2.5% YoY. In 6 months throughput grew by 5.1%, to 32.5 million tons. In particular, the railroad transported 4.5 million tons of ferrous metals (unchanged), 2.2 million tons of coal (+35.5%), 1.7 million tons of non-ferrous ore (+4%) and 0.6 million tons…
Central Mining and Processing Works has purchased two new 130-ton quarry dump trucks. The machines can operate at the temperature from minus 50 degrees C to plus 50 C. The power of their diesel engines is 1600 hp, and the volume is 50 liters. (Ukrainian metal)
The mine named after Yalevsky of SUEK-Kuzbass has started developing the long face No. 50-05 with the reserves of more than 6 million tons of coal. This is the first time that SUEK-Kuzbass prepares such a long face with such huge reserves. The company investments in the mine in the past two years totaled 7.5…
Evraz NTMK has shipped more than 3.5 thousand tons of sheet pile Larsen for the construction of a Lugaport transport terminal in the sea trade port of Ust-Luga in the Gulf of Finland. The piles will be used to create artificial land plots and the shoreline. Evraz NTMK is the only sheet pile Larsen manufacturer…
Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Works intends to expand its product portfolio by adding aviation wheels. For this the company is purchasing new machinery. In particular, KULZ has purchased and commissioned a new turning lathe to produce large aviation wheels with a diameter of up to 1 meter. (Ukrainian metal)