On February 22 the Eurasian Economic Commission considered a number of integration, trade, as well as customs and technical regulation issues. One of the decisions was the zeroing of the customs duties on some of grafitized electrodes. At present the duty is 5%. The 0% duty is applied till April 30, 2020. (Ukrainian metal)
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…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service hosted a meeting on the graphitized electrode market competition. According to the director of industrial control department Nelli Galimkhanova, the meeting was gathered following two claims from Rostov Electrometallurgical Works and Krasniy Octyabr. The situation is difficult, as the market has been experiencing a sharp shortage because of decrease in capacity…
On August 31, the Federal Antimonopoly Service will review the development of competitiveness on the market of graphitized electrodes. A special commission has been created in view of the current situation, connected with the sharp increase of prices for graphitized electrodes in 2017. The event will discuss a number of factors influencing the price formation,…