NLMK and Zagorsky Pipe Works decided to take part in the Black Friday. They offered buying their rebars with a discount of some 1 thousand rubles per ton and 530-1420 mm diameter pipes with a discount of 10-15%. The cost of rebars is 32-35 thousand rubles per ton, and of pipes – over 70 thousand…
DetailsIn January-October Ukrainian metal companies received $1.7 billion of direct foreign investments, up by 7.6% YoY. According to the State Statistics Service, the share of metal companies in the total DFI amount grew from 5.1% to 5.2%. FDI in mining increased by 15.2%, to $2.01 billion. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsAzovstal has finished repairing assembly hall in the large-section rolling shop. The walls have been insulated, while ceiling and floor have been repaired. Moreover, this year the company has improved material conditions in the pelletizing, rail and beam and repair shops. This year some 218 objects for 15.4 thousand employees have been improved. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn January-September Metalloinvest received $1.484 billion of net profit, up by 19.2% YoY. EBITDA dropped by 3.1%, to $2.115 billion, and revenue – by 0.3%, to $5.328 billion. The share of high added value products in sales grew from 72% last year to 73%, with sales up by 2.7%. In Q3 Metalloinvest net profit increased…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has received a right to continue extracting ore in the mine named after Artem, as the legislative collisions have been removed. AMKR received the initial right to operate at the mine in 2007. The license was granted for two sites. In 2014 operation at one of them was suspended. In 2015-2016 the…
DetailsShareholders of Marganets Mining and Processing Works could spend 9% of the net profit for 2018 in the amount of 163.2 million UAH to pay dividends. The decision will be taken at the next meeting scheduled for January 16, 2020. One of the suggestions is to transfer 5% of the profit (8.16 million UAH) to…
DetailsIn October Uralskaya Kuznitsa produced a record number of locomotive axles. In 10 months over 12 thousand axles were sold. “We have exceeded the record of 2013. That year we produced 11.2 thousand locomotive axles. But now, in just 10 months we have manufactured more axles. That’s the largest output in our history”, the company…
DetailsIn 2017-2019 Rusal invested some 2.6 billion rubles in modernization of Bogoslovsky Aluminum Works and Bogoslovskaya Thermoelectric Plant. In particular, the company has finished the project to modernize alumina manufacture, resulting in the output increase by 55 thousand tons with a considerable drop in prime cost. The thermoelectric plant sees its main machinery repaired. (Ukrainian…
DetailsIn September Russia exported 10.8 thousand tons of flat aluminum, down by 4% MoM, but up by 13% YoY. Deliveries to Poland dropped by 28%, to 3.2 thousand tons, but to Finland and Ukraine grew by a third, to 1.5 thousand tons and 802 tons respectively. In 9 months exports totaled 93 thousand tons, up…
DetailsGovernor of the North Kazakhstan region Kumar Aksakalov noted that overburden works started on the Syrymbet tin deposit. It is the first subsoil user in the region. The record amount of investments, some KZT 100 billion was channeled to the project. Construction of the mining complex will start next year. It will create 600 new…
DetailsIn September Russia exported 4.9 thousand tons of long-rolled aluminum, down by 5.5% MoM and by 7.8% YoY. Deliveries to Germany dropped by 10%, to 924 tons. At the same time exports to Kazakhstan grew by 4%, to 764 tons, and to Belarus by 2%, to 518 tons. In 9 months exports totaled 48.5 thousand…
DetailsPokrovsky Mining and Processing Works (previous name – Ordzhonikidze GOK) could spend 95% of its 2018 net profit (385.47 million UAH) to pay dividends. The decision will be taken at the next shareholders meeting scheduled for January 14, 2020. The first suggestion was to send 5% of the profit (19.27 million UAH) to the reserve…
DetailsIn January-October Ukraine exported 12.92 million tons of rolled steel, up by 5.21% YoY. The share of exports in the total manufacture grew from 79.9% to 83.2%. The share of semi-finished products in exports increased from 43.57% to 47.02%, while that of flat metal dropped from 34.99% to 33.45% and of bars from 21.44% to…
DetailsDeliveries of rolled metal to Ukrainian companies in January-October dropped by 10.9% YoY, to 3.832 million tons. Imports accounted for 1.217 million tons, or 28.3% of all deliveries, up by 3.5% YoY. The share of flat metal in imports grew from 50.77% to 56.89%. The share of bars dropped from 46.43% to 40.12%. CIS countries…
DetailsIn October-November Volnogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Works concluded 4 agreements with Hydrospetsservice Industrial Enterprise LLC on hydro-mechanical earth works valued at 120.36 million UAH. Until the end of 2020 the company has to deepen a settling pond of the Skazhena gulch tailings as well as clear tailings of the processing manufacture at the above-mentioned gulch…
DetailsThe Ministry of Economy, Foreign and Domestic Trade of Brazil has started its first antidumping investigation of the import of steel pipes from Ukraine. The objects of investigation are carbon steel seamless pipes with outer diameter of not less than 141.3 mm made for oil and gas pipelines. The probable dumping period spans April 2018…
DetailsUntil December 20 Russkiy Chrome 1915 intends to carry out a scheduled repair of the drainage system around its sludge collector No. 1. The pump station No. 3 has already been shut down in order for the electric pump to be replaced. The modernization of the drainage system is a preparatory stage to assemble new…
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