The state enterprise Yuzhnodonbasskoye No. 1 Mine Group has ordered the Makeevka Works “Fakel” the delivery of fire extinguishers valued at 2.03 million UAH. In 2017-2018 the works has to supply 600 mine extinguishers VP-8 at 2540 UAH apiece and 300 extinguishers VVSH9 at 1690 UAH apiece. On the open market such extinguishers are sold…
DetailsEuropean Commission has decided to impose a fixed tax on each ton of hot-rolled iron, alloyed and unalloyed steel originating from Ukraine, Russia, Iran and Brazil instead of minimal import prices. The fixed tax per ton will become the final protection against hot-rolled metal imports from these countries. The tax for Russian manufacturers will be…
DetailsIn January-August Novoshakhtinskoye Open Pit Group of Primorskugol LLC, a part of SUEK, shipped 1.738 million tons of coal from the Pavlovskoye deposits, up by 3.5% YoY. At present Primorskugol is constructing the Nekkoviy open pit at the Lipovetsky deposits. Its project capacity is 500 thousand tons of coal per year. The pit will be…
DetailsChelyabinsk Zinc Works has started negotiations with the owners of major ferrous metal plants, including MMK and ChMK, on the possibility of processing and recycling their zinc-containing dust wastes. According to the company EO Pavel Izbrecht, the current technologies allow to effectively and safely process these raw materials. In 2017 it is planned to obtain…
DetailsArcelorMittal Temirtau has put into operation a new 8 D1-2 breakage face at the Shakhtinskaya mine. The company has invested over 500 million tenge into the face. The coal reserves there are estimated at 590 thousand tons. Average daily output will be 3 thousand tons. The new breakage face will be developed for 9 months.…
DetailsKyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant is modernizing its copper wire rod shop. The company intends to replace the casting machine, increase the wheel diameter, furnace capacity, and assemble new engines. This will allow improving the speed of the technological chain to 20 tons per hour and output to 140 thousand tons of copper wire rod per…
DetailsEgypt decided to prolong temporarily antidumping duties on rebars, produced in Ukraine, Turkey and China, for 2 months. The size of the duty is 15-27% CIF for Ukraine, 10-19% CIF for Turkey and 17% CIF for China. Egypt introduced duties on imported rebars in June for 4 months. The decision was taken to protect local…
DetailsInternational rating agency Moody’s has improved its outlook of corporate ratings of Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL to Positive from Stable, affirmed the corporate credit rating at Ba3 and the probability of default rating at Ba3-PD, the agency said in a research note late on September 26. Moody’s improved the outlook due to deleverage of…
DetailsReclamation of the uranium-tailing dump near Min-Kush village in Naryn region of Kyrgyzstan has started, the Director of the Center for State Regulation of Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety under the State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry, Baigabyl Tolongutov, reported. According to him, the reclamation was started by Rosatom (Russia). It plans to spend…
DetailsUzbekistan transferred the state share in the authorized capital of JSC “Uzmetkombinat” to the trust management of SFI Management Group. According to the agreement, all the deputies of the chairman of “Uzmetkombinat” will be appointed and dismissed from their positions by the supervisory board on the proposal of the SFI Management Group. The company will…
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