In January the Moscow subsidiary of the First Cargo Company increased throughput by 35% YoY, to 173 thousand tons. The main cargo was ferrous metals, scrap, chemical and mineral fertilizers. The increase was due to the high demand for ferrous metals and scrap on behalf of the machine-building enterprises of the Central and Southern districts…
DetailsEvraz ZSMK has put into operation two gas-and-dust separators systems. According to the company statement, the new machines are used to clean air of premises originating from the process of sinter manufacture. The project presupposes putting into operation 2 more machines by 2019. The investments into the project totaled 350 million rubles. For the past…
DetailsUfaleinickel will halt its operation on April 1. The corresponding decision has been taken by the shareholders because of the unfavorable financial and economical situation. The employees will be sent in idle vacation with 2 thirds of the average salary. The company started experiencing problems after the world nickel prices dropped and coke prices increased.…
DetailsSergey Plichko, the deputy financial director, deputy chief accountant on finances has been appointed the new acting financial director, chief accountant of ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih. For the past 5 months the acting financial director, chief accountant has been Igor Kublitsky, though his appointment has to end on June 30. Sergey Plichko has been appointed till…
DetailsVSMPO-Avisma has increased its business-plan for 2017 by 11.5% as compared with the plan for 2016. According to the company statement, all the titanium divisions have enough orders. The company also implements a new planning tool. “The idea is that we will be able to see the production picture more clearly and we will know…
DetailsIn 2016 the Warehouse complex of ChTPZ sold over 265 thousand tons of pipes of Chelyabinsk Pipe Works and Pervouralsk Pipe Plant. In May 2016 a new, 14th, subsidiary of the Warehouse complex was opened in Bataisk, Rostov region. In 7 months it has sold around 4 thousand tons of pipes. A centralized logistics service…
DetailsIn January, according to the railways statistics, direct deliveries of ferrous scrap to the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works totaled 98 thousand tons. This is down by 42.7% MoM, but up almost 5 times YoY. This is also the highest result for January for the last 10 years. And MMK is still the leader in…
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DetailsIn January Russia produced 4.3 million tons of steel, up by 11.5% YoY, but down by 3.6% MoM. Pig iron output grew by 4.6% YoY, to 4 million tons, with rolled metal production up by 3.2%, to 4.5 million tons. According to Rosstat, steel pipes manufacture increased by 13.4%, to 0.442 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn January raw zinc output in Russia increased by 1.2% YoY. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, on the other hand the January result was 9.4% below the December 2016 result. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn 2016 the Petropavlovsk Group opened the Elginskoye gold deposits (Amur region). The reserves at the deposits are estimated at 56.2 million tons of ore with 72 tons of gold and 14 tons of silver. “I believe that Elgisnkoye deposits hides much more in terms of resources and reserves. It is much larger than our…
DetailsIn 2016 almost all of Rusal Siberian plants increased aluminum output. In particular, Bratsk Plant – by 0.1%, to 1.005 million tons, Krasnoyarsk Plant – by 1.2%, to 1.024 million tons, Sayanogorsk Plant – by 0.9%, to 530 thousand tons, Novokuznetsk Plant – by 1.8%, to 213 thousand tons, Irkutsk Plant – by 1.2%, to…
DetailsIzhorsky Pipe Works, a part of Severstal, will supply 100 thousand tons of large diameter pipes for Gazprom’s Sila Sibiry (Power of Siberia) pipeline. The company will produce 1420 mm diameter pipes of K60 steel with inner and outer anticorrosion polyethylene coating. Since 2014 ITZ has shipped over 250 thousand tons for the pipeline project.…
DetailsStandard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P) has revised its outlook on Metalloinvest from Negative to Stable. S&P also affirmed the company’s ‘BB’ long-term corporate credit rating. According to S&P’s latest report, the upgrade to a Stable outlook reflects positive iron ore price trends, as well as actions taken by Metalloinvest’s management team to deleverage and…
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