Mechel-Service has supplied over 2 thousand tons of rolled metal for the construction of a road junction on the M-5 Ural road. Most of the metal used in construction is rebars of 35GS and 25G2S steel grade produced by Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works. The plant will soon produce and ship a batch of welded…
In late 2018 a delegation of Yekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Works visited Uzbekistan. The members of the company met with the representatives of two mining and processing works, cement manufacturer and continuous basalt fiber enterprise. The latter is already a customer of EZOTsM. The company intends to increase exports to Uzbekistan at least 2-2.5-fold. The…
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has finished a series of capital repairs in its steel manufacture. In particular, the company has repaired continuous casting machines Nos. 1, 3 and 5, rotary kiln No. 5 and the ladle furnace No. 1. Moreover, while repairing the converter No. 2, an investment project has been carried out thanks…
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works turns 87. The birthday of the Russian metal giant is February 1, 1932, when the first pig iron was produced at the first blast furnace. In a year MMK added open-hearth manufacture and started producing steel. In August 1934 the mill-500 was commissioned. In 2018 MMK produced 12.7 million tons…
Specialists have started assembling and welding the first belt of the blast furnace No. 3 jacket at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. Metal structures for the jacket have been produced by Vitkovice, the Czech Republic. Rolled metal for the jacket was produced at the mill-5000 in Kolpino. With the new jacket the blast furnace will…
Donetsk Iron and Steel Works could again suspend operation. According to a well-known blogger, ex-terrorist Yevgeniy Tinyansky, who is now in the opposition to the current authorities of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization created and supported by Russia, he has information that because of the lack of raw materials the blast furnace…
The Teghut mine might get re-launched, according to Minister of Economic Development and Investments Tigran Khachatryan. When asked about the chances of Teghut resuming operations, the minister said: “Yes, there is hope, nothing is hindering them to start restoration works after clarifying their relations with the bank,” he said. In 2017, Teghut produced and exported…
In 2018 Metalloinvest produced 5.1 million tons of steel, up by 6.2% YoY. Pig iron manufacture grew by 12.6%, to 3 million tons. HVA products sales share was 43%. In 2018 Metalloinvest produced 40.4 million tons of iron ore, up by 0.2% YoY, and in Q4 – 10.3 million tons, up by 3.5% QoQ. The…
