According to the State Statistics Committee, in January-July the country imported 162.8 thousand tons of rolled metal, up by 7.3% YoY, valued at $100.52 million. Ferrous rods imports reached 66.38 thousand tons, up by 23.8%, valued at $33.39 million, angles – 22.255 thousand tons, up by 35.6%, valued at $15.9 million. At the same time…
In the city of Ussuriysk, Lider Stal Vostok LLC has opened a new manufacture of coil steel with polymer coating. At the works, employing 20 people, the steel imported from China is cleaned, polished, cut, coated and coiled again. Investments into the project totaled 58 million rubles. The capacity of the enterprise is some 80…
In August Ukrainian metal companies increased natural gas consumption by 10 million cubic meters MoM, to 140 million cubic meters. Average daily gas consumption increased by 0.3 million cubic meters, to 4.5 million cubic meters. In January-August metal companies consumed 1.2 billion cubic meters of gas, up by 2% YoY. Average daily consumption was 4.7…
In August prices of industrial products increased by 0.4% MoM and by 23.6% YoY. According to the State Statistics Service, iron ore prices increased by 6.6%, coal by 6%, in metal manufacture by 2.8%. At the same time coke prices dropped by 1.5%. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-July Kazakhstan mined 144.1 billion tenge worth of ore, up by 57% YoY. Kostanay and Karaganda regions yielded the most – 128.1%, up by 54.7% YoY, or 88.9% of the total volume, and 14 million tenge, up by 78.4%, or 9.7% of the total respectively. ArcelorMittal Temirtau was the largest contributor in both regions.…
The state company Russian Railroads has started using decreasing coefficients when calculating tariffs for transportation of rolled sheet for NLMK and some other companies. The decreasing coefficient will be valid through December 31. It covers rolled sheet transportation from the railroad stations of Novolipetsk, Revda, Apparatnaya, Nizhneserginskaya, Yekaterinburg, Vorsino and Vladivostok. At the same time…
The throughput of the railroad rout Kamysh-Zarya – Volnovakha, through which Mariupol metal works get raw materials, is too low, Azovstal CEO Enver Tskitishvili told the infrastructure minister Vladimir Omelyan. According to him, on average 15.8 pairs of cargo trains go via this route daily, despite the fact that Ukrzaliznytsia invested a lot to increase…
In August Ukrainian mining and metal companies received only 21% of the railroad cars they needed. “It’s still early to say about the improvement. There is still an irregularity in provision. As to the mining and metal companies, some of them get just 0-15% of the cars needed”, Ukrmetallurgprom president Alexander Kalenkov said. But since…