Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) has concluded 37 agreements with Sota Ukraina LLC for the delivery of steel valued at 110.32 million UAH. In particular, Darnitsa Wagon-Repair Works placed 36 orders valued at 106.66 million UAH. The two most expensive orders (8.23 million UAH) provide for the supply of sheet steel produced by Mariupol Ilyich Iron and…
DetailsInna Ponomareva has become a new CEO of the metal trading company Firma Vicant. She has previously worked as the sales director. Grigory Nosko, who headed the company prior to Ponomareva, left Vikant. In 2017 Vikant imported 121 thousand tons of rolled metal and started cooperating with Metinvest in pipes purchases. This year the company…
DetailsIn 2017 Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works received 5.392 billion rubles of net profit, down 2.8-fold YoY. Revenue grew by 10.7%, to 118.567 billion rubles, domestic sales accounted for 106.303 billion rubles. Gross profit fell by 26,6%. Sales profit dropped almost 2-fold, to 6.965 billion rubles. The company accounts receivable increased from 25.475 billion rubles…
DetailsPolymetal has concluded the first agreement on the sale of concentrate from Kyzyl. The purchaser of the concentrate is one of the current trade partners of Polymetal’s, which for the past two years has acquired a considerable volume of concentrate from Maysky. According to the agreement, the buyer has to purchase at least 50% of…
DetailsNovgorodsky Iron and Steel Works has begun the final stage of copper electrolysis shop scrap-conveyor reconstruction. The conveyor transports anode remnants from the electrolysis shop to the copper smelting shop. Earlier all was done manually. Scrap was unloaded from the height of 1.7 meters, which made the process difficult and dangerous. The conveyor will be…
DetailsThe researchers from the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy have found gold-containing minerals at the Maletoyvayam deposits in Kamchatka. The prospecting was carried out at the order of the research company Elekhim. In particular, the new type of mineral contained compounds of gold with tellurium, sulfur and selenium. Gold can be found with silver impurities,…
DetailsIngalinskaya-2 Mining and Processing Factory in South Yakutia has increased its coal processing capacities to 2.5 million tons per year. Concentrate output depends on the coal grade – from 40% to 63%. “The project capacity of the factory was 1.5 million tons. Last year we reached 1.7 million tons. The factory was put into operation…
DetailsSeverstal has received electric compressors for Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works from Hanwha Techwin (South Korea). The cost of the investment project is around 1 billion rubles. With the help of the new machinery CherMK will decrease electricity usage by 27%. According to the contract, machinery was accepted last year at the Hanwha Techwin works.…
DetailsIn 2017 Rusal increased revenue from $7.983 billion to $9.969 billion. Mostly because of the aluminum price rise by 22.7% (to $1968 per ton), increase in the primary aluminum and alloys sales by 3.6% and the growth of the high added value products sales from 44% to 47.3%. EBITDA grew by 42.4%, to $2.12 billion,…
DetailsNovokramatorsk Machine-Building Works will ship 4 ore mills to Yuzhuralzoloto (Russia). “The company has started fulfilling a large order to produce innovative ore mills for our long-time partner, to whom we have sent a dozen mills over the past 10 years”, NKMZ said in a statement. Four mills form the first batch. But the final…
DetailsIn 2017 sales volume of metal products made by PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih exceeded 5.4 million tons, out of which 64% accounted for finished products (rebar, wire rod and sections). Sales of square billet reduced by 4% comparing to 2016, from 33% to 29%. The considerable growth of sales was recorded in the segment of…
DetailsVorkutaugol has started assembling a multi-functional safety system at the Vorkutinskaya, Zapolyarnaya, Komsomolskaya and Vorgashorskaya mines. In December 2017 the mines started receiving the Strata system components, produced in Russia, Kazakhstan, USA and South Africa. In January Alpha-Safety specialists arrived to implement the system. When the system is launched in July, its three main options…
DetailsAzerGold is looking for a contractor to carry out prospecting drilling. According to the company statement, the selection will be based on the results of an open tender. The cost of participation is 250 manats. The company accepts offers until April 13. The tender will be held on April 16. AzerGold was created on February…
DetailsIn January VSMPO-Avisma manufacturing plan was 102.17% fulfilled.
According to the company manufacturing director Oleg Ryabov, the shops Nos. 1, 20, 31, 37 and 38 coped with the task the best.
Not even long New Year holidays prevented them from reaching the target. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2017 KAZ Minerals gross income from sales grew 2-fold YoY, to $1.938 billion. “The increase mainly has to do with the growth of Bozshakol and Aktogay input of $439 million and $462 million respectively, on the background of the strengthening market”, the group said in a statement. The gross income from the sales of…
DetailsIn 2017 Russia increased metal exports to Ukraine by 9.3% YoY, to 602.3 thousand tons. According to the customs statistics, money-wise exports increased by 42.1%. These are the highest results since 2014. Flat rolled metal accounted for 46% of all exports, up by 14.3%. Sections exports grew by 0.5% to 40%. Steel pipes accounted for…
DetailsThe state enterprise Pervomayskugol has ordered Erlite LLC the delivery of rubber conveyer belts valued at 78.94 million UAH. In particular, the enterprise has ordered 25450 meters of belt produced by Kursk Factory of Technical Fabrics (Russia). In late December 2016 Erlite supplied conveyer belts to Selidovugol at prices 23-26% lower. The goods have to…
DetailsWithin the framework of the Industrialization Map 7 projects to the amount of KZT 95 billion were launched in 2017, governor of Akmola region Malik Murzalin informed.
In particular, KazakhAltyn concern launched 3 gold recovery factories with total capacity up to 4 tons of gold a year. (Kazinform/Ukrainian metal)
The budget funds earlier provided to Arcelor Mittal may be withdrawn, Vice-Minister of National Economy of Kazakhstan Bauyrzhan Bekeshev said during the enlarged meeting of the Committee for Economic Policy, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship of the Senate. The topic of the discussion was the bill on “Ratification of the agreement of voluntary reconciliation between the…
DetailsIrshansk Mining and Processing Works has ordered Imex Minerals LLC the delivery of lime carbonate valued at 29.74 million UAH. This year the company will supply 2950 tons of soda ash at 10080 UAH per ton. Earlier VostGOK bought soda ash from another company at 7901 UAH per ton, or 25% cheaper. In April 2017…
DetailsThe supervisory board of the Severniy Iron and Steel Works has relieved Pavel Timoshenko of his duties as the general manager. The acting CEO of the company is now the Metinvest Holding mining assets director Andrey Skachkov. Timoshenko was dismissed on February 19, while Skachkov was appointed from February 20. Timoshenko has been the SevGOK…
DetailsIn 2017 Uralcable produced 102 thousand km of car cable. In 2016 the output was 73 thousand km. The growth of output has to do with the improvement of technological effectiveness and the automatization of manufacturing processes. “This year we intend to increase output first and foremost due to the replacement of machinery. In H2…
DetailsOleg Deripaska intends to become the president of Norilsk Nickel. According to a source, it is because of the Nornickel plans that Deripaska has left the president seat in Rusal and En+. “The experience of cooperating with Vladimir Potanin shows, that only changes in the balance of power could provide for the maximum growth of…
DetailsThe net profit of Rusal in 2017 increased by 3.6% YoY, to $1.222 billion. According to the company statement, EBITDA grew by 42.4%, to $2.12 billion, while revenue increased by 24.9%, to $7.224 billion. The company net debt as of December 31, 2017 was $7.649 billion, down by 9.2%. Rusal accounts for around 7% of…
DetailsThe Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and Bogatyr Komir Company signed a loan agreement to finance Bogatyr Komir’s investment program aimed at modernizing coal production processes at the Bogatyr mine, the press service of EDB said in a message. The document was signed by Andrey Beliyaninov, Chairman of the Management Board, from the EDB, and Murat…
DetailsKarabashmed, a part of the Russian Copper Company, has celebrated the 20-years anniversary of creation and resumption of manufacture. Karabash Copper-Smelting Works was created in 1910. It was one of the main suppliers of copper for the Russian industry, military in particular. But for almost 100 years the company has been operating without gas-purifying systems,…
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