Since the start of the year the Raspadskaya miners have yielded 4 million tons of coal, becoming one of the first in Kuzbass to reach the result in just less than 7 months. The mine’s average monthly output is 420-700 thousand tons of coal. This year’s goal is 5.5 million tons of coal. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsThe metal companies of the South of Russia have addressed the federal authorities asking them to impose an environment tax on scrap exports. They believe this idea does not contradict the WTO norms and will have a triple positive effect: it will support local scrap processors, bring additional money to the regions and will help…
DetailsChelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has finished the capital repairs of its blast furnace No. 1. According to the company statement, its blast furnace shop includes 3 furnaces with the combined capacity of 3.5 million tons of pig iron per year. In Q1 ChMK received 950.3 million rubles of net profits, up 2.3-fold YoY, having…
DetailsIn Q2 revenue grew by 18% QoQ, to $2.54 billion, driven by a 14% QoQ increase in sales and an improvement in the product mix (a 20% growth of finished product sales), against the backdrop of a fall in steel product prices. Q2 EBITDA eased by 2% (growth by 31% YoY), to $603 million following…
DetailsThe core owner of Russia’s Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant (ChelPipe), Mountrise Limited, may buy a 49.89% stake of state-owned nanotechnology company Rusnano in Eterno, a white metallurgy joint venture with the plant, Rusnano said in a statement on July 26. The deal may be closed by the end of September. “Rusnano has completely fulfilled the task…
DetailsThe country’s third largest city Sumgayit will be the home to a huge metallurgical complex to be jointly built by Azerbaijan and Italy. The agreement signed between Baku Steel Company and Italian company Danieli in December 2016 will allow the country to save millions of dollars it spends on import and create opportunity for opening…
DetailsCoke coal output of the Russian coal and iron ore maker Industrial Metallurgical Holding (IMH) decreased by 3% YoY, to 1.338 million tons in January-June, the company said in a statement on July 26. Cast iron production grew by 3%, to 1.163 million tons and iron ore output rose by 3%, to 2.581 million tons.…
DetailsSeverstal management has reviewed the sum of possible claims from tax service and decreased it 50-fold. As of December 31, 2016 the possible tax claims were estimated at $400 million. In April it became known that the company had been able to decrease the claims almost 3-fold, to $132 million. According to the latest information…
DetailsIn January-June, according to railroad statistics, the delivery (including imports) of metal products for construction to the trade networks and direct supplies from metal companies to construction enterprises decreased by 3.6% YoY. Bars constituted 43.5% of all deliveries, having increased by 0.2% YoY. Roof steel totaled 8.8%, down by 17.5%. Shaped sections (beams, channel, angles)…
DetailsKorolevsky Pipe Works is expanding the geography of its presence on the Russian market by opening a warehouse in St. Petersburg. The opening of the new site will decrease logistics expenses of buyers from the North-West of the country, while the broad range of products and good location of the warehouse will make the purchase…
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