In Q3 Metinvest produced 2.026 million tons of pig iron, on the level of July-September 2016. The drop of output at Azovstal (by 77 thousand tons) was compensated for by the increase at Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works (by 78 thousand tons). In particular, Azovstal produced 868 thousand tons of pig iron, down by…
DetailsIn Q3 Metinvest produced 1.802 million tons of steel, down by 3% YoY. In January-September the group produced 5.725 million tons of steel, down by 10% YoY. In particular, Azovstal in Q3 decreased steel output by 8% QoQ, to 1 million tons, while Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works was able to increase output by…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has produced a large batch of rolls for ABB. According to the company statement, products were supplied to ABB enterprises in Finland and Poland. The total weight of the batch is 154.55 tons. The rolls will be used in the manufacture of electric engines. In 2016 EMSS received 1.49 billion UAH of net loss,…
DetailsThe license for the development of Bozymchak, the country’s largest copper-gold deposit, was renewed, the press secretary of KAZ Minerals Bozymchak LLC Elena Tregubova informed. Earlier, the company received a notice on suspending the license for three months with reference to Article 27 of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic On Subsoil. Ulanbek Ryskulov, Chairman…
DetailsRussian steelmaker Severstal may invest up to $15 million in the Yakovlevsky mine in 2018, and will present a business plan for the asset by May 2018, CEO Alexander Shevelev said on November 2. “Next year investment will amount to up to $15 million,” he said. The company acquired full control over the mine two…
DetailsRussian metals and mining group Mechel will export up to 300,000 tons of coal per year to Japan’s Itochu Corporation under a long-term contract, the company said in a statement on November 2. “We have been shipping coal to Itochu Corporation only under spot contracts for the past two years, and the signing of a…
DetailsThe Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has returned to the U.S.-based Avellana Gold international mining company the previously withdrawn special permit for the development of Muzhievo polymetallic ore deposit in Zakarpattia, the west of Ukraine, as well as confidential geological information about the field, according to the company’s press service. “The General Prosecutor Office has…
DetailsRussian gold producer GV Gold has bought back 5.26% of its shares from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) early, the company said on November 2. GV Gold’s unit Sakha Gold Mining acted as the buyer. The final payment amounted to $39 million, while the total payment stood at $62 million. Under the…
DetailsIn 2017 a record commissioning of new long faces is expected at the state mining companies. “This year a record number of new long faces will be put into operation at the state mines – 38. 19 long faces have already been commissioned, 19 more will be commissioned in these two months. For comparison, in…
DetailsThe need in the machine resulted from the switch of the company in March from underground mining to open-pit mining at the Jebariki-Khay. The machine will crush large fraction coal appearing after explosion works. The volume of pieces could be 1.5-2 cubic meters. Jebariki-Khay supplies coal to housing and municipal companies of the northern and…
DetailsIn just three months after Amurmetal resumed operation (the works has been idle for half a year) it has already produces 72.5 thousand tons of continuous-cast billets. Now the main task is to reach the scheduled capacity of 800 thousand tons of liquid steel per year. Later it would be possible to increase output to…
DetailsAt the meeting of the Shakhty City Council the Department of economy director Vladimir Gorshkov said, that soon the Rostovsky Electrometallurgical Works would be operating at full capacity. The industrial indexes of REMZ dropped to 87%. The city is taking measures to resume normal operation at the major works. A commission has been created to…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has shipped rolls to 4 ArcelorMittal companies. According to the agreements signed, EMSS supplied 228 tons of products. In particular, for ArcelorMittal Temirtau EMSS produced 2 supporting rolls with the total weight of 62 tons. 3 more supporting rolls (95.1 tons) have been manufactured and sent to Germany to ArcelorMittal Bremen. ArcelorMittal Sagunto SL…
DetailsDTEK Mine Group named after Space Heroes is preparing to overcome the largest geological break in continuity in Western Donbass – the Bogdanovskoye Fracture, which will open access to a large coal deposit. The Bogdanovskoye Fracture divides excavations of the Space Heroes and Blagodatnaya mines. The total length of the fracture is 35 km. (Ukrainian…
DetailsUralelectromed has purchased the fifth Ferrit diesel locomotive (the Czech Republic) valued at 14 million rubles. The machine will be used to transport cargo between the main industrial shops. “Four similar machines have been in use at our enterprise for the past two years and have proven their efficiency. With the delivery of the fifth…
DetailsTMK has started manufacturing insulated tubings of the 89-48 mm size with triangular section thread connection according to GOST 633. The first batch of 5.2 thousand meters of tubings produced by Sinarsky Pipe Works has been shipped to Udmurtneft. The tubings were made to order. “We continue increasing the range of insulated tubing sizes. This…
DetailsIn January-October the Pavlik Company obtained 5 tons of gold at the Pavlik gold-bearing deposits. Until the end of the year the company intends to obtain 1.1-1.15 tons of gold more. Thus, the total result for 2017 will be 6.1 tons of the precious metal. Last year Pavlik obtained 3.95 tons. The gold-extracting factory at…
DetailsThe Kyshtym Copper Electrolytic Plant (Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk region, a subsidiary of the Russian Copper Company) has released its production results for the first 9 months of 2017. During that time, the plant produced over 97,128 tons of cathodes, up by 8.6% YoY. Copper rod production increased by 6.1%, to 72,784 tons, silver by 2.3% and…
DetailsSeverstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, announces that it will be hosting its annual Capital Markets Day in London on November 2. Severstal’s Chairman, Alexei Mordashov, will open the event via video address. Alexander Shevelev (CEO), Alexei Kulichenko (CFO), Dmitry Goroshkov (Marketing Director), Sakari Tamminen (Senior Independent Director)…
DetailsThe Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), an executive body of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), has suspended a decision in an abuse of market dominance case of Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) on request of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the commission said in a statement. In September, the commission imposed a fine for violation of…
DetailsIn August, according to the customs statistics, Russia imported 29.1 thousand tons of corrosion-resistant rolled metal valued at $50 million, up by 15.7% and by 7.6% MoM and by 41.7% and by 48.2% YoY respectively. In July imports increased by 6.8% MoM in volume and by 12.7% in cost. In January-August Russia imported 190 thousand…
DetailsTaseyevskoye LLC, a part of Highland Gold Mining, intends in 2019 to start processing wastes of Baleyskaya Gold-extracting Factory No. 1 and obtain over 520 kg of gold per year. Expenses on the design works amount to $2.1 million. The company plans to develop the design documents and pass all the state procedures by September…
DetailsIn 2018 DTEK intends to increase gas coal output in Ukraine by 1.5-2 million tons. “This year we will increase output by 1.5-2 million tons, to 23 million tons. And we intend to try to repeat this increase next year as well”, DTEK Energo deputy commercial director Dmitry Malyar said. In January-October DTEK imported 1.4…
DetailsThe increase of the current coal price by 10% will improve the situation with paying salary to miners. According to the chairman of the Professional Union of Mining Industry Employees of Ukraine Victor Turmanov, the Ministry of energy and coal industry intends to increase state coal sales price from 2220 UAH to 2425 UAH per…
DetailsCherepovets Iron and Steel Works has received the first 63 MW power transformer produced by Power Machines – Toshiba. High-Voltage Transformers. The new machine will replace the outdated one. The cost of the investment project is 200 million rubles. Reconstruction will be complete in Q3 2018. This is the third power transformer supplied by Power…
DetailsChepets Mechanical Works has started manufacturing industrial ingots of intermetallic titanium alloys of increased weight (up to 1480 kg) for the aviation industry. The main advantages of these alloys are the high melting temperature, increased strength, plastic and fatigue properties, good high temperature strength at the temperature of up to 700 degrees C and better…
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