Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk said that the function of managing state-owned enterprises should not fall within the ministry’s competence. He stated this at a meeting with experts of the government-public initiative “Together against corruption”, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry’s press service reported. “The ministry should be responsible for forming policy and…
In April, the Southeastern railroad transported 6.909 million tons of cargo, with 28.195 million tons transported in 4 months. In particular, the transportation of coal increased by 168.3% YoY, to 120.7 thousand tons, iron and manganese ore – by 4.9%, to 13.7 million tons, ferrous scrap – by 24.3%, to 92.8 thousand tons, refractories –…
A special front-end cutter allows preparing long faces for coal mining faster and makes drifters work safer. There are only two such machines in Ukraine. The third Corum machine will operate at the Pavlograd Mine Group. The capacity of the machine is 1.5 tons per minute. The machine can increase the speed of the excavation…
One of the largest metal-processing enterprises in the Baltic States – RK Metāls grupa – last year received 20 million euro, up by 40% YoY. “We used to take as many orders as we could take care of. This limited our possibilities. A year or two ago we changed our approach. We now take as…
The Metinvest Green Center has held a competition “100 yards” on the urban improvement of Kriviy Rih. This year, 197 projects were submitted for the competition. The projects have been evaluated by specialists from the site improvement and housing spheres, citizen representatives and miners. The competition has been running since 2016, and so far Metinvest…
In January-April Ukraine exported 858.06 thousand tons of pig iron valued at $281.94 million, down by 16.2% and by 17.2% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main customers were USA (55.6%), Italy (12.88%) and Turkey (9.44%). At the same time Ukraine imported 221 tons of pig iron valued at $356 thousand, as…
On May 6, an employee was injured at ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih. The accident happened at the blast furnace shop No. 1 bin trestle. The Industrial Service Company LLC employee was loading sinter and got burned. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-April, Ukraine exported 2.383 million tons of carbon steel semi-finished products valued at $990.036 million, up by 5.3%, but down by 5.4% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main customers were Italy (30.61%), Egypt (17.41%) and Algeria (8.42%). In 4 months Ukraine imported 25.458 thousand tons of steel semis valued at…
