According to the agreement on the shut down of the machinery, on May 31, Electrozinc cancelled labor agreements with 1128 employees. In particular, 271 people resigned due to retirement, while 82 left they job upon the agreement between the parties. All the employees received compensations. (Ukrainian metal)
In late May – early June, Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) announced new auctions to sell scrap. In particular, at the Prozorro system the enterprise will sell 8 lots of scrap with the combined volume of 20.2 tons. Three lost were put up for auction on May 31 (one of them repeatedly). The auctions will be held…
Since the start of the year Druza LLC has produced 362.5 kg of gold, up by 4% YoY. Last year the output was 349.1 kg of gold in 5 months. The company is operating at one licensed site – the Nevskoye gold ore deposit in Irkutsk region. This year Druza intends to produce 945 kg…
In 2019 Lysva Iron and Steel Works intends to produce 300 thousand tons of metal, up by 20% YoY. Since the company entered the MMK group, the output has increased more than 2-fold. While in 2017 LMZ produced 110.1 thousand tons of metal, last year the output totaled 248.5 thousand tons. This year the output…
In May, according to RZD, railroad throughput totaled 106.3 million tons, down by 3.8% YoY. In 5 months throughput dropped by 0.7%, to 532.1 million tons. Of metal cargo 32.2 million tons accounted for ferrous metals, down by 2.5%. Ferrous scrap transportation grew by 4.7%, to 5.6 million tons. Iron and manganese ore transportation increased…
In March the state-owned Vnesheconombank made an additional contribution to the Sibuglemet statutory capital in the volume of 84 billion rubles. The VEB share in the capital has not changed, it is still 100%. VEB intends to sell the company, which is now managed by Evraz. Sibuglemet is one of the largest coking coal miners…
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) confirmed its status as the largest supplier in Russia of rolled metal for the production of pipes. At the end of 2018, the company shipped 3.3 million tons of hot-rolled steel to the Russian market, of which more than a half was delivered to companies in the pipe industry.…
In May, Ukraine decreased steel output by 4.7% MoM, to 1.89 million tons. Pig iron manufacture dropped by 9.3%, to 1.698 million tons, while that of rolled metal grew by 4.3%, to 1.71 million tons. In 5 months Ukraine produced 8.74 million tons of pig iron, 9.33 million tons of steel and 7.89 million tons…