In January-October Russia’s imports amounted to $201.4 billion, up by 1.5% YoY. Far foreign countries accounted for 88.9%, and CIS – for 11.1%. The share of metal and metal wares in the import structure totaled 7.5%, up from 7.3%. In particular, in imports from foreign countries – 6.3% (6%), and from CIS – 16.8% (17.9%).…
DetailsVerkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament, has adopted in the first reading the draft bill No. 1210, which presupposes the increase of iron ore mining rent. 232 members of the parliament voted in favor of the bill, 67 were against, 44 abstained and 42 did not vote. The rent is to be set at 12%, which is…
DetailsBeloretsk Iron and Steel Works has passed the rebar wire manufacture audit according to Slovak construction norms. This allows the company to supply metal wares to Slovakia. In particular, the rebar wire with the diameter of 5 mm and rebar 7-wire strands with the diameter of 9.3 to 15.7 mm have been inspected. The inspection…
DetailsZagorsky Pipe Works has begun the first stage of the project to construct a seamless pipes producing works. Until the end of the year the company intends to select an organization to design the new works. In Q1 2020 ZTZ will conclude contracts on construction and the delivery of machinery. The design capacity is expected…
DetailsSukremlskiy Iron Works, one of the leading enterprises to produce cast iron for railroad industry, has mastered the manufacture of new types and sizes of pipes and joints. In particular, the company has started producing double-male pipes with the diameter of 125 mm. The enterprise is already producing pipes with the diameter of 100 and…
DetailsDniepropetrovsk region will create a group to monitory environment at ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, the main polluter in the region. The group will control the company management fulfilling its obligations to improve environment. The management promised to create a schedule to determine the amount of funds, which would be spent on environment programs. The group will…
DetailsThe Verkhovna Rada committee on economical development has approved of a draft bill No. 2426 on amendments to some bills on de-shadowing of metal raw materials market and operations with metal scrap. At present some 80% of the scrap market are in the shadow. “With this bill we create the opportunity to bring some 16…
DetailsNorilsk Nickel has connected its two mines under the second stage of the project to construct the Komsomolsky mine. The connection of the Komsomolsky and Skalistiy mines at the depth of 950 meters was carried out by ways of holing-through. According to experts, holing-through is a rare event in capital construction. It will result in…
DetailsChelyabinsk Zinc Works has invested 102 million rubles in a new water-warming plant. The plant is used to provide heating and hot water to administrative and manufacturing buildings. The previous machine had a capacity of 18 Gcal per hour, and the reconstruction allowed increasing it to 60 Gcal per hour. The plant heats water to…
DetailsIn January-November Sverdlovsk Railroad transported 129.1 million tons of cargo, up by 0.7% YoY. In particular, transportation of ferrous metals dropped by 0.6%, to 9.5 million tons, ferrous scrap – by 10.5%, to 2.2 million tons, iron and manganese ore – by 1.9%, to 11.1 million tons and non-ferrous ore – by 5.7%, to 5.7…
DetailsThe third arbitrary court has refused to satisfy the claim of Chek-Su.Vk Company, which has asked to recover 23.5 billion rubles from the authorities of Krasnoyarsk region. The suit was filed in 2017 in order to recover funds spent on the unfinished project to construct Yeniseiskiy Ferroalloys Works on the territory of Krastyazhmash works. The…
DetailsIn January-November Russian Railroads transported 4.53 million containers (TEU), up by 12.2% YoY. Domestic transportation grew by 8.6%, to 1.89 million TEU, transit – by 5.3%, to 521.5 thousand containers, exports – by 12.6%, to 1.16 million TEU and imports – by 24%, to 968.8 thousand containers. In particular transportation of ferrous metals increased by…
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