NLMK Group, a global steel company, and venture capital firm Fort Ross Ventures, a partner of Sberbank, have penned an agreement to cooperate to support innovations. Under the agreement, Fort Ross Ventures will provide NLMK Group with information on projects related to the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence technologies, cyber-security, cloud technologies, etc., that will…
NLMK Group, a global steel company, has won a Silver award at the international Step Two Intranet and Digital Workplace Awards 2019 for the launch of its Intranet portal, which extends to all employees, promotes automation of business processes and enhances personnel engagement. The jury honored the main achievement of the NLMK project: the company…
At the Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting (EGM) held on June 7, NLMK shareholders approved the payment of Q1 dividends of 7.34 rubles per share, or 100% of the company’s free cash flow according to NLMK Group’s consolidated statements prepared in accordance with IFRS. The date upon which the shareholders entitled to Q1 dividends will be…
On June 4, NLMK for the first time outran the largest ferrous metals company in the world – ArcelorMittal – by capitalization. At the closing of the LME trade, NLMK was estimated at $15.88 billion. The capitalization of AM at the NYSE was $15.7 billion. At the same time in 2018 ArcelorMittal produced 92.5 million…
NLMK Group, a global steel company, and the Administration of the Lipetsk region have signed a memorandum of intent to build a new recovery power plant at NLMK Lipetsk, running on by-product gases from hot-end operations. The project will enable a reduction in carbon oxide (CO) emissions by 3,000 tons per year and a decrease…
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) plans to reduce steel production to about 16 million tons in 2019 from 17.493 million tons in 2018, President Grigory Fedorishin announced. “The amount of steel production will fall at the Lipetsk facility because a big blast furnace and a big converter will shut down for repairs. We intentionally united…
NLMK announced the placement of 7-year $500-million Eurobonds with an annual coupon rate of 4.7% payable semi-annually. The proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes. The issue was oversubscribed more than three-fold with the order book exceeding $1.7 billion at the peak and more than 150 investors. The final order book was subscribed by…
NLMK Group, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment of the Russian Federation, the Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service (Rosprirodnadzor) and the Administration of the Lipetsk region have signed a four-way Cooperation Agreement in sustainable development. The Agreement, which forms part of the National Ecology Project, was signed by Grigory Fedorishin, NLMK Group…