On March 11, Metall-Don signed a major export contract to produce metal structures for the Frigia bauxite-alumina complex owned by Rusal. The cost of the contract is 75 million rubles. The structures will be delivered to Guinea by sea. (Ukrainian metal)
The Urals enterprises of Evraz in 2018 improved the working conditions of 4 thousand metallurgists and miners. The group spent over 900 million rubles on the labor and industrial safety programs. Some enterprises replaced lighting in warehouses and railroad sites. Others provided their employees with personal protection means. (Ukrainian metal)
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has carried out an environment project. One of the rolling shops has been switched to using recycled water in its manufacture. This allowed decreasing water discharge by a third, or by 500 cubic meters per hour. A new water pipeline with the length of 600 meters has been constructed and…
In 2018 Dneprospetsstal received 428.45 million UAH of net losses as opposed to 61.02 million UAH of net profit in 2017. The uncovered losses as of the end of 2018 totaled 2.35 billion UAH. The company current liabilities dropped by 56.9%, to 2.12 billion UAH. At the same time fixed liabilities grew 2.9-fold, to 4.73…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih will continue the modernization of its strategic energy infrastructure. Recently several contracts have been concluded. One of them is the supply of a new 16B cooling tower. It is needed to cool the power plant, blast furnaces and compressor station water. The tower is expected to be put into operation this summer.…
In 2018 Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant increased ore processing by 11.8% YoY, to 1.431 million tons. According to the company CEO Oleg Bespalov, this equals to 77 tons of ferronickel, up by 6.2%, or 15.8 thousand tons of raw nickel, up by 3.4%. This year PFK intends to process 1.572 million tons of ore and extract…
Krasniy Octyabr Iron and Steel Works has mastered the manufacture of a new product – bar of high-alloyed, corrosion-resistant steel of EP 54 grade (08X21H6M2T). Previously of this steel the company manufactured only sheets. The technique allows producing hot-rolled bars with the diameter of 65 to 200 mm. (Ukrainian metal)
Chepets Mechanical Works has received a Russian patent for the HighMet wire and the technique to produce it. The technique is used to produce, among other things, calcium injection wire. The technique was developed several years ago. Now the company is the only manufacturer of such wire of its own electrolytic calcium in Russia. “We…