An employment center for Metinvest workers from the companies on the occupied territories has started operating in Mariupol. According to Azovstal CEO Enver Tskitishvili, the Metinvest staff is a single body, despite territorial spread. Azovstal has already employed the first workers from the Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works. Other Metinvest enterprises do the same. On…
At present Azovstal Iron and Steel Works is operating at 50-55% capacity, but it could drop to 40% in case the railroad blockade is not stopped. According to the company CEO Enver Tskitishvili, the works is not receiving coking coals of the necessary quality, while coke from Russia is expensive – $360 per ton. “Altaikoks…
Rinat Akhmetov’s Metinvest companies have devised a plan to avoid environment control in Mariupol. “Yesterday at noon near the Silpo supermarket on the left bank there was a horrible smell from Azovstal. And so what? It’s Saturday-Sunday. Stationary environment control posts are not operational (because of the weekends). Neither is the mobile laboratory”, a local…
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works planned to increase output in 2017 by 0.8-0.9 million tons, to 4.2-4.3 million tons, but because of the trade blockade of the occupied territories it revaluated the forecast to 3.15 million tons. “If the situation persists and we still operate under the blockade regime, we might not even reach 3…
After the coal deliveries from the temporarily occupied regions of Donbass have been blocked, Ukraine has only two countries from which to buy it – USA and Russia, and the latter has just increased its price by 37%. “At first Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Works was shut down following the shelling, then people blocked the…
Following the increase of the minimal wage to 3200 UAH from January 1, metal companies of Mariupol, nevertheless, do not plan to fire employees. According to Azovstal HR director Konstantin Voitsekhovsky, all the jobs have been kept. “As of January the average salary was 10 thousand UAH. That’s considerably higher compared to the average salary…
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, a part of Metinvest, is operating at 55% of its capacity while the orders allow it to work at 80-85%. This is the result of the coke shortages following the railroad blockade. According to the company CEO Enver Tskitishvili, because of the blockade Azovstal stopped receiving coke from Avdiivka Coke…
Metinvest fears the blast furnaces of its Azovstal Iron and Steel Works could decrease output to the lowest possible level because of the lack of coke. According to the group’s press-service at present all the blast furnaces are operating, as they get coke from the 3 coking batteries. But they are not enough to provide…