Evraz NTMK has started work on increasing the range of the environment management system (EMS) certification. In accordance with ISO 14001:2015 the company specialists are preparing the coke manufacture and furnace shop EMS for certification. EMS was implemented at NTMK in 2004. All the structural divisions of the works, involved in the manufacture of steel,…
DetailsGazprom will purchase 121 thousand tons of pipes with diameter of 1020, 1220 and 1420 mm and outer three-layer insulation from Zagorsky Pipe Works. The pipes will be used to repair main pipelines. The order will completely cover the current needs of Gazprom for repair. The delivery will be carried out by installments by the…
DetailsSince May 11, the new general manager of Severstal – Balakovo, a part of Severstal Russian Steel, is Artem Akinfiev, who has previously been responsible for the improvement of manufacturing processes at Promservis, another part of SRS. “In his new office Akinfiev will be responsible for increase of the company competitiveness on the bars market”,…
DetailsIn January-March Russia exported 752 tons of stainless steel products, down by 31.4% YoY. The exports consisted of billets (27.7% of the total volume), bars (22.7%), electric welded pipes (16.6%), flats (16.2%), seamless pipes (12.5%), valves (2.4%) and wire (1.9%). Except for the billets and valves, which demonstrated a rise of 9.8-fold, to 208 tons,…
DetailsOn May 8, in PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih an accident happened which led to the death of the company’s employee. At Sinter plant of Steelmaking Production of the plant reinforced concrete roofing of charge section fell on belt conveyers. At that moment the doser was working between the conveyers. As a result of falling of…
DetailsDTEK has started supplying Pridneprovskaya and Krivorozhskaya thermal power plants with coal from its mines in Rostov region (Russia). “Before the first coal from the South African Republic arrives in June, DTEK decided to direct some coal from Obukhovskoye mine group in Russia”, the company informed. The enterprise is a part of DTEK and at…
DetailsSo far the gold washers of Kolyma have yielded 1.7 tons more gold then last year. The plan for the year is 30.5 tons. In 2016 Kolyma miners produced 27.9 tons of gold and 889.2 tons of silver, with 15.9 tons of alluvial metal, an absolute record for Russia. Susumanzoloto yielded 4.5 tons. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn 2015-2016 MGTS earned 1.36 billion rubles each year from sales of old copper cable. The company does not disclose the volume of sales, but taking into account procurement prices in Moscow, it could have been 4500 tons in 2016. MGTS not only sells old cable, but also buys new one. In April it announced…
DetailsThe rail-beam shop of Evraz ZSMK has initiated a project to start producing new lengths of rails and increase R65 100-meter rails output. Investments will total 168 million rubles. The shop will see the construction of the second rail line, after which ZSMK will be able to produce European rails 60E1 and 54E1 with the…
DetailsOn May 8 there was a cave-in of a concrete construction on the territory of ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih. The cave-in size was 500 square meters. An hour after the cave-in the rescuers were able to retrieve a body. During the accident there were 4 people in the building, three of them were able to escape…
DetailsRussian authorities have started denying coalminers new licenses because of the accident and safety risks. MMK and PMH are operating at the Nikitinskiy Verkhniy site in Kuzbass – the former has some 130 million tons of deposits, while the latter intends to start mining at the site with 200 million tons. But the Ministry of…
DetailsIn January-April Russian seaports throughput of ferrous metals dropped by 0.4% YoY, to 9.68 million tons, with exports at 9.46 million tons, down by 2.1%, and imports at 220.53 thousand tons, up 3.7-fold. Railroad exports to port Novorossiysk totaled 3.58 million tons, down by 8.3% YoY, St. Petersburg – 2.1 million tons, up by 24.7%,…
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