Metalloinvest and Kamaz have held the fourth coordination council on technical and commercial issues. The meeting was hosted by Oskol Electrometallurgical Works. In November 2017 the companies signed a 3-year contract on the SBQ delivery. Kamaz orders some 80% of its needs at OEMK. Coordination councils are held twice a year and help the parties…
Corum Group, a part of DTEK, has concluded a new contract valued at 392 million UAH. The company will produce and supply 135 ZRP 15/35 anchoring sections to Poland. In particular, the anchoring has to be delivered to Polska Grupa Gornicza S.A. (PGG) and will be used at the Piast-Ziemowit mine. “In 2018 we ordered…
Rusal has obtained a license to develop the Goryachegorskoye deposit of nepheline ores, the main raw materials for Achinsk Alumina Plant. According to the estimates the reserves of the deposit will be enough for the plant to operate for 60 years. Achinsk Plant is the largest enterprise in Russia processing nepheline ore to produce alumina.…
Tula-Steel intends to start producing steel in late May. The company has plans to enter foreign markets of billets. “Sales volumes will depend on the market situation. But the billets will not be our priority. In the first place we will concentrate on the manufacture of rolled metal”, the company noted. Tula-Steel can export some…
A new enterprise started operating in the Kurgan industrial park – Kurgan Works of Energy Techniques. The works will produce steel pipes in PPU and PPM insulation, as well as pipe joints. Until the end of the year the company intends to produce some 23 thousand meters of pipes. Investments in the project totaled 76…
Aluminum giant UC RUSAL and energy and metals holding En+ Group of the Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska can reregister in a special administrative zone in Kaliningrad until the end of 2019, Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin declared. “We are working on this and will do all we can on our side,” Oreshkin said. Oreshkin added…
In April, Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works increased sales by 2.4% YoY, to 780 thousand tons. In January-April sales dropped by 0.4%, to 3.3 million tons. Sales to domestic customers grew by 25%, to 2.24 million tons, while exports fell by 30.4%, to 1.05 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
Ukraine has prolonged the antidumping investigation on the imports of rods (rebars) of carbon and alloyed steel from Belarus and Moldova. The interdepartmental commission found out that there was a need to prolong the investigation, begun on July 2, 2018, to 15 months. The decision was taken on May 14 and came into effect on…
