Chelyabinsk Zinc Works has started constructing the leaching department of its hydrometallurgical shop. The preliminary stage ended in mid-July: the concrete surface of the future construction site has been disassembled. “The decision to start constructing the department was taken under the program to increase capacity to 200 thousand tons of zinc per year. After the…
Chelyabinsk Zinc Works, a part of UMMC, has successfully passed the second supervisory audit of the integrated management system correspondence to MS ISO 9001:2008, MS ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007. Bureau Veritas Certification has evaluated the quality management, ecological management and health and labor management systems. “The audit has been passed successfully. We have received…
Chelyabinsk Zinc Works, a part of UMMC, has started producing fine zinc powder. “We’ve already been producing zinc powder earlier, but the existing technology does not allow producing powder with the fineness below 10 micron. And that’s exactly what’s in demand now. So we started making trial batches of the powder”, the company engineering center…
The Federal Customs Service has put Chelyabinsk Zinc Works in the low risk category. The customs control of products exported from or purchased by ChelZinc will be carried out not in full volume. “The main advantage of this registry is the saving of time when products move through the customs border of Russia. This is…
In 2016 the total earnings of Chelyabinsk Zinc Works increased by 26% YoY, to 30347 million rubles. The main driver for the growth was the zinc price rise at LME – by 9% YoY, to $2095 per ton. The company net profits totaled 4016 million rubles as opposed to 3750 million rubles in 2015. EBITDA…
Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company has increased its share in Chelyabinsk Zinc Works to 97.714%. Last year ChTsZ produced 174.803 thousand tons of zinc and alloys as opposed to 171.002 thousand tons in 2015. (Ukrainian metal)
Within the large-scale program of the Chelyabinsk Zinc Works reconstruction, the zinc electrolysis shop put into operation a new anode leveler. The cost of the new machinery is 1.2 million euro. The new machine is used to clean and level anodes every 20-40 days, as the cleaner and straighter the anode surface is, the better…
In 2017 Chelyabinsk Zinc Works, a part of UMMC, plans to produce 183 thousand tons of zinc, up from 174.8 thousand tons in 2016. According to the company PR-department director Natalia Vasilyeva, in 2016 output increased by 2.2% YoY. The ChTsZ daughter company in Kazakhstan, NovaZinc, produced 36720 tons of zinc concentrate and 5680 tons…