In April-December Zagorsky Pipe Works received 55 thousand tons of rolled metal from South Korea. The delivery time from Posco to the warehouse is 25 days, which is almost twice faster mostly thanks to the Vladivostok Sea Trade Port and Russian Railroads. “The decrease in delivery time of rolled sheet brings South Korea closer to…
Krasnoyarsk Iron and Steel Works has commissioned a new press mill to manufacture products of easily and hard-deformable alloys. The Spanish Gia Clecim Press press is one of the most powerful in KraMZ press manufacture. Its size is around 3 thousand square meters. “The press capacity is over 450 tons per months. These products can…
Saratov Works of Reservoir Metal Structures has been declared insolvent. During the supervisory procedure, which has lasted since the beginning of the year, the insolvency officer has analyzed the company financial activity and decided that it will be impossible to restore solvency, as debts reach 1.26 billion rubles. The works was created in 1947 as…
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has increased the processing of iron-containing wastes. In 11 months the company has already exceeded the previous 5 years waste processing results. Sludge or mud is the by-product of manufacture. It is created during the operation of the blast furnaces. Because of the high iron content (around 40%) these wastes…
Officials in Kyrgyzstan discussed how to reduce the price of local coal, the State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use reported. Currently, four companies in two shifts are working at an open pit in Kara-Keche. Every day 4,500-5,000 tons of coal are mined. There is a checkpoint guarded by the police at the entrance.…
A local resident Jeenbek Kurbanov was killed in coalmine No. 5 in the rural district Uch-Korgon of Kadamdzhai district. When descending into the mine, the rope broke off, and the man fell from a height of 15 meters. The Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed the information, adding that the body had been taken out by…
The authorities of the Zabaikalye region want to allow individual gold extraction to increase alluvial gold output from 10 to 20 kg. The relevant amendments to the various bills have already been prepared and sent to the State Duma. Individual gold extraction has been prohibited in Russia since 1954. In 1990s the authorities of the…
Kazakhaltyn Technology LLC has commissioned the gold-extracting factory at the Aksu mine. At first it is planned to obtain up to 4 tons of gold and 2 tons of silver a year. Investments totaled 30.585 billion tenge. By the end of the year Kazakhaltyn intends to have commissioned two more factories at the Zholymbet and…
In January-October TALCO aluminum output decreased by 23% YoY, to 85.6 thousand tons valued at 330.4 million somoni. According to the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies, in January-October 2017 output was 110 thousand tons. This year the company has processed over 6.8 thousand tons of aluminum, up by 1.6 thousand tons YoY. In 10…
Evraz ZSMK has obtained the TSI certificate for the 54E4 and 49E5 European standard sections. The certificate allows the company to supply such rails to Europe to be used on high-speed and ordinary railroads. The company has also confirmed the TSI certificate correspondence for the 60E1 and 60E2 European sections. “The manufacture of 54E4 and…
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has finished the repairs of the blast furnace No. 2. The cost of the repair exceeded 40 million rubles. The repair lasted for 18 days. All the parts of the new machinery were of local-make. One of the largest parts – the base of the furnace weighing 15 tons –…
The copper-smelting shop of Uralelectromed has started assembling the new crane to load charge into the anode furnaces. The cost of the machinery together with assembly will reach some 20 million rubles. This is the second crane manufactured by the Naberezhniye Chelny Crane Works, made to order. The first one has been working for a…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant will assemble a new complex on MAERZ furnace gas purifying valued at 200 million rubles.
Purification will reach 99%, and the total square of filtration will be 4.5 thousand square meters.
The new gas-purifying equipment will be commissioned in H2 2018. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-November Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine produced 1.095 million tons of rolled metal, down by 37.7% YoY. According to a company representative, steel output dropped by 35.9%, to 1.128 million tons, pig iron – by 37.8%, to 1.087 million tons. In November DMK produced 225 thousand tons of rolled metal, 237 thousand tons of…
In 2017 Corum Druzhkovka Machine-building Works increased output by 122% YoY. According to the company statement, the expected volume of products manufactured this year will be 757 million UAH. Loading of the company capacities this year has increased by almost a quarter, to 123%. In 11 months the works received 353 orders for the manufacture…
PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih continues to resettle the residents from the area of possible displacement of the earth surface in the Saksaganskiy district of Kriviy Rih and is ready to purchase every household located in the streets Lavrenyova and Chistopolskaya (“Zhukovka settlement”), at the price of 425 thousand hryvnia providing the conclusion of the sales…
Izhorsky Pipe Works, a part of Severstal, has supplied over 42 thousand tons of 1420 mm diameter pipes of K60 steel for the construction of the Sila Sibiri (Power of Siberia) gas pipelines. Such pipes can withstand increased deformations and remain stable under active seismic influence. The first batch of pipes was shipped to the…
Energoprom, a part of Renova and the only producer of graphitized electrodes in Russia, will help metal makers. In 2018 it will increase UHP and SHP electrodes output by one third, to 39.4 thousand tons and will sell around half of the products to metal makers with a 20-30% discount under long-term contracts. In autumn…
Kazakhstan’s companies specializing in geological exploration are ready to work in Uzbekistan, the general director of the Kazakh-Australian company “Aurora Minerals Group” Kaisar Kozhamuratov said at the 10th international conference “Uzgeoinvest-2017”. “Uzbekistan has always been interesting for us from the point of view of geological exploration, since there are a lot of large deposits here.…
Egypt will maintain tariffs on steel rebar from China, Turkey, and Ukraine for a period of five years, the trade ministry said, extending the temporary tariff imposed earlier this year. The tariff was first implemented in June to protect local manufacturers and set at 17% for Chinese steel, 10-19% for Turkish steel, and 15-27% for…
Residents of Min-Kush village (Naryn region) held protest against the development of open-pit coalmines. According to them, in the last two days, the inhabitants of Ming-Kush had to block the way to mines in order to attract the attention of officials. As the protesters noted, they believed that coalmining caused irreparable harm to the environment.…
President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered to launch the plant for the production of metal structures of “Psi Stroy Industriya” LLP in Almaty region. “We ask you to give a start to the production of high-quality metal structures with a capacity of 18,000 tons per year. We are about to complete the construction of a…
Norilsk Nickel intends to have received the first gold-containing concentrate at its Bystrinsky Mining and Processing Works in late 2017. The operation of the second grinding line began on November 16 and would be finished not later than on December 10. “The construction of the processing factory has been completed in the record-short time. Now…
Susumanzoloto Mining and Processing Works has acquired 2 companies – Sever LLC in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Novy Put LLC in Magadan region. The deals were finalized in late November. Both companies specialize in alluvial gold extracting. Sever LLC licensed sites reserves are estimated at 4.5 tons of gold. This year the company…
Izhstal has started manufacturing stainless steel with nitrogen alloying on secondary metallurgy units (external steel treatment). This technique improves steel plasticity and manufacture efficiency due to the decrease of alloying elements and azoted ferroalloys. Such metal products are used in shipbuilding, automobile, oil and gas and other industries. The company can also continuously cast over…
The authorities of the city of Volgograd have announced that they are preparing for the decrease of jobs at the Krasniy Octyabr Iron and Steel Works.
Since February 2018 some 177 employees will be fired.
Of them 11 are engineer-technicians, and 166 electrical engineers and gas and arc welders. (Ukrainian metal)