In 2016 Kazakhstan reduced exports of silver, however revenues grew and the country earned $584 million. Export volume in physical terms decreased by 8.8%, but in monetary terms it increased by 21.2%. In 2016 export of unprocessed or semi-finished silver and silver powder reached 1.17 thousand tons valued at $584.6 million. Kazakhstan’s main partner is…
Details5 plants will be opened in Karaganda region this year, the regional akim (governor) Nurmukhambet Abdibekov said. In particular, copper leaching and refractory materials plants will be constructed. The new companies will be created under the Entrepreneurship road map. “10 projects will be implemented under the roadmap. Aside from the roadmap we will also create…
DetailsGiessenhause has started the construction of the aluminum alloys works in Pavlodar region, the regional akim (governor) Vulat Bakauov reported. The enterprise will serve as the base for creation of the aluminum cluster and the manufacture of automobile disks, sections, sheets, wire and plates of aluminum alloys. “80% of the products will be exported”, Bakauov…
DetailsIn 2017 Chelyabinsk Forge-and-Press Works intends to increase output by 23% YoY, to 8.1 billion rubles. “ChKPZ has implemented the large-scale efficiency improvement program, which will allow us saving 300 million rubles per year without much investments”, the company CEO Andrei Gartung said. In 2016 the works earned 6.6 billion rubles, up by 35% YoY.…
DetailsUkgazvydobuvannya has ordered Interpipe the delivery of steel pipes valued at 87.55 UAH. By the end of February, the company would have supplied seamless hot-deformed insulated pipes at 31-32 thousand UAH and arc-welded pipes of 720×8 mm at 28 thousand UAH. Interpipe did not decrease price during the auction, and so it was only 0.05%…
DetailsThe management of the Evraz Sukhaya Balka Mining and Processing Works claims it has neither not initiated and nor held the meeting at the State Geology Service of Ukraine. “The administration of Evraz Sukhaya Balka, as well as the management of other Evraz Ukrainian companies, have nothing to do with the strike. As far as…
DetailsIn 2016 Chelaybinsk Pipe Works and Pervouralsk Pipe Works shipped 1.713 million tons of pipes to customers, down by 15% YoY. The decrease is explained with the change in delivery schedule to Gazprom and the drop in demand. The largest decrease was in the large diameter pipes segment (27%). At the same time ChTPZ was…
DetailsIn January Kuzbass region mined 18.7 million tons of coal, up by 6.3% YoY. According to the regional coal industry department, energy coal mining reached 13.3 million tons, up by 3.9% YoY, coking coal – 5.4 million tons, up by 12.5% YoY. SUEK-Kuzbass increased output by 0.6 million tons YoY, Kiyzassk and Novokuznetsk site of…
DetailsArcelorMittal Temirtau plans to stabilize the situation with the sharp shortage of open cars necessary to transport raw materials and rolled metal within a month. The company started experiencing railroad car shortages in H2 2016. Kazakhstan used to attract some 12-15 thousand open cars from Russia each month, but now their number dropped to 3-4…
DetailsAfter a 6-months idleness Metal-group has resumed iron ore extraction at its Yakovlevsky mine in Belgorod region. By March almost all employees have to be engaged in the work. Annual ore output is expected to increase to 100 thousand tons. Since February 1, the operation started in limited volume, with 55% employees working. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsThe state enterprise Krasnoarmeyskugol (Donetsk region) ordered the Promtorg Company LLC filtering equipment valued at 199835 UAH. As the value was below 200 thousand UAH the enterprise didn’t have to hold a tender. By the end of 2016 the company has to supply 24 oxygen self-rescuers at 8326 UAH per unit. On the market they…
DetailsThe Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is pondering the possibility of buying anthracite coal from other countries, in particular from South Africa, China or Australia. “We will have a state stock. Money is given to create the state stocks of anthracite coal. But the options are few: South Africa, Australia and China”, the minister of…
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