Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant has overcome the negative personnel dynamics by increasing salary by 38% in H2 2018. “In December 2018 we hired 11 people more than resigned. The people started returning to the plant”, the company CEO Oleg Bespalov said. Earlier a part of the employees moved to the neighboring Poland to seek jobs. The…
In Q1 Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant completed the campaign to repair its main machinery, planned for the current year. “We have replaced lining at the tube-type rotary kiln No. 1 and the dome of the ore-thermal furnace No. 1. For the first time in 7 years. We hope it will operate for some 5-6 years more”,…
In 2018 Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant increased ore processing by 11.8% YoY, to 1.431 million tons. According to the company CEO Oleg Bespalov, this equals to 77 tons of ferronickel, up by 6.2%, or 15.8 thousand tons of raw nickel, up by 3.4%. This year PFK intends to process 1.572 million tons of ore and extract…
In 2018 Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant invested 74.1 million UAH in the repair of its main machinery. In Q1 the company plans to repair the ore-smelting furnace No. 1 (the repair will be carried out in 53 days) and the tube-type rotary kiln No. 1 (50 days). “The repair will result in the decrease of capacity…
In February Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant slightly decreased nickel output because of the repair of the main machinery. “We had a scheduled repair of furnaces in February, so the output dropped. Since early March the furnaces have been put back into operation”, the company said. In March the company will regain its full capacity. The repair…
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant has suspended the project to create its own railroad cargo cars fleet. The press-service reminded that the main motive behind Solway Investment Group decision to create the fleet was the insufficient number of the rolling stock last winter. “Now the situation has stabilized a bit. There is information, that new cars appeared…
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant has started assembling the third stage of gas purification for the tubular rotary kilns Nos. 1 and 2. The project started in 2016. So far $1.8 million have been invested, including $600 thousand in 2017 and $1.2 million this year. The project will be completed in 2-3 years. Its total cost is…
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant has purchased two MAZ trucks with the lifting capacity of 25 tons. The cost of each machine is 2.5 million UAH. They will replace BelAZs with the lifting capacity of 35-40 tons. “We plan to buy 10 new trucks. We’ll see how these 2 trucks prove themselves, and then decide”, the company…