Beloretsk Iron and Steel Works has confirmed the quality certificates for its wire and rebars used to reinforce ferroconcrete structures. The Mosstroysertifikatsia specialists have checked the manufacturing technique, the machinery condition and participated in testing samples of the products. The certificates have been issued for 3 years with annual confirmation. BMK has been cooperating with…
Severstal-Vtorchermet has carried out an investment project to construct a new machine – a press to make briquettes of metal shavings at the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. Investments in the project totaled 150 million rubles. The construction began in Q1 2018. The machinery was supplied by ATM, Austria. The machine will reach its design…
This year Evraz intends to spend $800 million on capital expenditures and confirms 4 projects. The company is reviewing for major investment projects in Russia and North America valued at some $1.3 billion. They include the creation of the flat rolled metal manufacture at ZSMK, as well as a new 100-meter rails shop in Colorado.…
In 2018 Metinvest enterprises paid 22.2 billion UAH to the budgets of all levels, up by 50% YoY. In particular, the group paid 11.1 billion UAH of profit tax, up by 76%. The payment of single social tax grew by 30%, to 3.1 billion UAH, and the individual income tax – by 22%, to 2.9…
In 2018 Ukraine exported 657 thousand tons of pipes valued at $737.8 million. This is the highest result in the past 4 years. In 2015 Ukraine exported 594.1 thousand tons of pipes valued at $576.4 million. Thus, in 2018 exports grew by 9.5% and by 21.8% from 2015 respectively. Last year Ukraine exported 624.9 thousand…
Standard and Poor’s has improved the long-term loan rating of Metalloinvest from BB/Stable to BB+/Stable. The rating improvement has to do with the company debt decrease and good operational and financial results shown in 2018. S&P has also improved the ratings of the Metalloinvest Finance DAC eurobonds from BB to BB+. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2018 Severstal sold 150 thousand tons of new types of products developed under the Product Innovations project. In particular, in late 2018 in less than a month a non-standard order was designed and produced for Severstal Steel Structures. Earlier several months would have been needed. The company produces roofing sheet and asked to make…
In 2019 Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant will switch its copper electrolysis shop to the operation on the stainless steel matrixes. At present some titanium matrixes are used in the manufacture. The switch to stainless steel matrixes began back in 2015 with the commission of a new machine. At that time 9 thousand stainless matrixes were…