The Federal Service of ecological, technical and nuclear supervision has fined Boguchansk Aluminum Works and Sorsk Ferromolybdenum Works. BoAZ was checked on November 28 – December 23, 2016 and fined for 40 thousand rubles for illegal construction of heating power plants. While SFMZ was accused of violations of the waterworks safety operation, and fined for…
DetailsIn 2016 Interpipe sold 572 thousand tons of products, down by 5% YoY. According to the company statement, pipe sales dropped by 10%, while wheel sales went up by 22%. The export share in sales reached 75%. Interpipe sold 458 thousand tons of pipes in 2016. Ukraine and Europe saw the highest growth in consumption.…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal will supply a batch of polygonal ingots to SSK van Schaewen Wetter. The billets will be produced of structural grade steel and will be sent to the customer in March. The weight of the lot will total 658 tons. The ingots will serve as the raw materials for the production of parts for various…
DetailsMagnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works shipped 1,135 million tons of galvanized steel to its consumers in 2016, the most in the company’s history. The previous record of 1,116 million tons was achieved in 2014. During the past 15 years, MMK has sustainably grown its galvanized steel output. In 2002 and 2008, the company commissioned two…
DetailsRusal has completed the debut offering of Eurobond with the following key terms: principal amount of $600 million, tenor 5 years, coupon rate 5.125% per annum. The bond proceeds will be used to refinance some of Rusal’s existing pre-export finance facility and improve the company debt maturity profile. «The company received very strong demand for…
DetailsNLMK Group, an international steel-making company with operations in Russia, Europe and the USA, announces the appointments of Anatoly Khebnev as Vice President for Procurement and Dmitry Kolesov as Vice President for Maintenance. The position of Vice President for Maintenance of NLMK Group is newly introduced. Dmitry Kolesov had been NLMK’s Director of Maintenance Planning…
DetailsRosterminalugol JSC, the largest dedicated coal port in the Baltic region, part of Russia’s largest coal port holding Port Management Company LLC, unloaded 21,887 wagons with 1.56 million tons of coal in January, up by 62.6% YoY (959,000 tons). Maximum unloading per shift was 473 wagons, per day – 877 wagons. From the beginning of…
DetailsThe bid book for the secondary public offering of Russian oil and gas pipe producer TMK was oversubscribed under the current guidance range, a banking source reported. The company guided investors for a pre-market placement price of 74.5 rubles per security. The bid book will be closed at 7.00 p.m. Moscow time on February 7,…
DetailsIn 2016 Ukrainian coal mining companies produced 40.9 million tons of coal, up by 1.119 million tons, or by 2.8% YoY. At the same time state-owned mines saw a significant decrease in production, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry’s press service reports. In particular, coalmining companies produced 32.5 million tons of steam coal and 8.4…
DetailsIn 2016 Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works spent 1.647 billion UAH on its technical modernization. Strategic investment projects cost the company 894 million UAH. “That’s the reconstruction of the gas-purifying equipment in the sintering factory (259 million UAH) and the second converter (136 million UAH), overhaul of the blast furnace No. 4 (334 million…
DetailsIn 2016 Poltava Mining and Processing Works exported 11.416 million tons of iron ore pellets. Most pellets were exported to Europe and Near East, as well as Japan, China and Korea. Karelsky Okatysh (Russia) exported 4.941 million tons of pellets, Central GOK (Ukraine) – 2.21 million tons, Mikhailovsky GOK (Russia) – 2.161 million tons, and…
DetailsWithin the 2017 investment program the Central Mining and Processing Works has put two large BelAZ cargo trucks and a Komatsu bulldozer into operation. The new machines will be operating at the Petrovsky quarry. “We started renewing our trucks last year. In summer 2016 we bought 6 BelAZs, and 4 more in December 2016. This…
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