The European Union has imposed 5 years antidumping duties on cold-rolled metal from Russia. The sanctions have affected the largest Russian metal companies: Severstal, Magnitogorsk and Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works. The lowest duty is imposed for MMK – 18.7%. Severstal received 34%, while NLMK – 36.1%. The reason for the investigation was the complaint…
Russian steel makers Severstal and MMK Group may lose $80 million and $60 million on EBIDTA margin respectively because of the EU duties on steel products, according to an analytical review by Aton. These losses account for about 5% of consensus-forecast on EBITDA for Severstal in 2016 and up to 4% for MMK, analysts said.…
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works on May 27, held its Annual general meeting of shareholders (AGM) in Magnitogorsk. The AGM approved of MMK’s annual report and financial statements for FY 2015 and resolved to pay a dividend for the 2015 financial year of RUB 0.31 per common share of issued stock (incl. tax). Earlier shareholders…
Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is pleased to announce that on May 23, the rating agency Fitch Ratings revised the outlook on its long-term issuer default rating (IDR) to positive from stable and affirmed the IDR at ‘BB+’. In its press-release Fitch notes that the positive outlook reflects MMK’s strong financial performance which allowed…
Two of the largest blast furnaces at Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works set new records for monthly volumes of pig iron in April. Blast furnace No. 9 produced 157.49 thousand tons of pig iron, beating its previous monthly record of 153.52 thousand tons, set in July 2013. Blast furnace No. 10 also set its own…
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works announces that Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded the company’s corporate family rating to Ba1 from Ba2 and probability of default rating to Ba1-PD from Ba2-PD. The assigned rating corresponds with the sovereign rating of Russia and brings MMK to the club of Russia’s metals & mining majors – Severstal, NLMK…
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works announced that a meeting of the MMK Board of Directors was held on April 22.
