Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant intends to resume purchases of nickel ore in Ukraine. According to the company director Oleg Bespalov, the ore will be bought from Zapadno-Loschevskoye deposits in Nikolayev region. The first batch will arrive on July 15. The company will buy 25% of its need locally, the rest, as previously, will be purchased from…
In January-June Pobuzhye Ferronickel Works produced 7.7 thousand tons of nickel, down by 13.4% YoY. According to the company statement, ferronickel output dropped by 9%, to 36.121 thousand tons, while the total volume of the ore processed decreased by 9.1%, to 640.312 thousand tons. The decrease was the result of scheduled repairs of the main…
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant intends to start capital repairs of its ore-thermal furnace No. 2 in February 2018. “The furnace is old. We have planned to repair it in February next year”, the company CEO Oleg Bespalov said. The cost of the project is some 50 million UAH, and the repair will last for 45 days.…
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant, a part of Solway, could resume the imports of power-generating coal from Colombia in case the deliveries from Ukraine and CIS countries are blocked. “We have created a data base on coals. Colombian coal fits our technology well, but it’s an alternative variant”, he said. According to Bespalov, if deliveries of Ukrainian,…
The increase of railroad tariffs this year by 25%, planned by Ukrzaliznytsia, is inadmissible, the Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant CEO Oleg Bespalov believes. “They come and say that they need to increase tariffs to buy wagons, as they have no money”, he said. According to Bespalov, this has been heard before, but the situation with the…
In 2017 Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant intends to increase ore processing by 14% YoY, to 1.618 million tons, ferronickel output by 3.5%, to 82.7 thousand tons, and nickel manufacture by 3.3%, to 18.7 thousand tons. According to the company CEO Oleg Bespalov, in H1 the ferronickel output is expected to reach 40 thousand tons, nickel –…
In January-June Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant intends to carry out repairs of its main machinery valued at 46.9 million UAH. According to the company CEO Oleg Bespalov, in 2016 the plant carried out repairs valued at 50.33 million UAH. This year the company will also spend 31.3 million UAH on environment protection. The works intends to…
In 2016 Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant intends to receive 69.51 million UAH of profits as opposed to 244.2 million UAH of losses in 2015, if the UAH exchange rate and resources prices remain on their current levels. “Since April we’ve been working with profits”, said the company CEO Oleg Bespalov. In H1 the company received 49.41…