In February Ukrainian metal companies are expected to produce 1.9 million tons of steel. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, pig iron output could total 1.8 million tons, while that of rolled metal – 1.6 million tons. Ukrmetallurgprom’s forecast for January was 2 million tons of steel and pig iron each, as well as 1.8 million tons of…
DetailsMariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has decreased gas usage while heating billets at mill-1700. “We used to heat the billets twice. Because the slabs are thick we had to heat them in the heating furnace No. 5, then sent them to the reduction mill to reduce the thickness to 135-140 mm, following by the…
DetailsPoltava Mining and Processing Works is studying the possibility of the construction of the pulverized coal injection machine to stop using the expensive natural gas. PGOK representatives visited ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih to get acquainted with the PCI machine, put into operation in 2016 at the blast furnace No. 9. In January-August 2016 PGOK decreased gas…
DetailsIngulets Mining and Processing Works continues the overhaul of the ore-processing factory No. 2 section 14 started in late 2016. After the reconstruction, estimated at 45 million UAH, the capacity of the section will increase by 12%, to 1.2 million tons of ore per year. In 2016 InGOK invested 392 million UAH into capital repairs…
DetailsIn 2016 enterprises of the Yuzhuralzoloto Mining Company yielded 15 tons of gold, up by 9.5% YoY. Svetlinsky Mining and Processing Works mined 8 million tons of ore and plans to mine as much this year. Bereznyakovsky Mining and Processing Works is expected to mine 1 million tons of ore in 2017. In 2018 UGK…
DetailsAccording to the ruling of the court Titanium Investments, the company of Dmitry Firtash representing Crimean Titanium Works in Russia, had to pay 18 million rubles of the environment tax. According to the prosecutor’s office of the Russia-occupied Crimea, the Armyansk town prosecutors found out the company hadn’t paid 49 million rubles to the budget…
DetailsIn 2016 Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works 2000 hot-rolled mill produced 5948 thousand tons of hot-rolled metal, which is an annual record in the whole history of the mill operation. Records have been marked for the third year in a row. In 2014 the mill produced 5930 thousand tons, in 2015 – 5935 thousand tons.…
DetailsIn 2016 SUEK enterprises mined 105.4 million tons of coal, up by 8% YoY. Sales increased by 2% YoY, to 103.1 million tons. Russian consumers received 51.2 million tons of coal, with 39.5 million tons supplied to power companies. Decrease of supplies to the local market totaled 6% due to the drop in coal consumption…
DetailsSeverstal has announced that its subsidiary, Severstal-Metiz, Severstal’s international metal ware manufacturer, has entered into a definitive agreement with Teufelberger Wirerope, a leading international metal wire ropes producer based in Austria, for the sale of Severstal’s subsidiary company Redaelli Tecna (Redaelli Tecna, part of Severstal-Metiz). Redaelli Tecna is based in Italy and is a global…
DetailsRusal is pondering the options of selling 2 of its Sverdlov region companies. In particular, these are Kremniy-Ural in Kamensk-Uralsky and Polevsky Cryolite Works, that was stopped in 2013. According to Rusal, it has improved techniques at its silicon works the products of which are used in aluminum alloys manufacture, in order not to buy…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has concluded an agreement with Evraz NTMK to supply work rolls for 1300 hot-rolling mills. According to the contract, EMSS will produce 12 rolls with the total weight of 570 tons for NTMK. The weight of each roll ranges from 40.6 to 61 tons. The company will completely treat the rolls and deliver them…
DetailsYakutia needs 4.5 billion rubles to start mining tin in the Arctic. The mining should start in 2018. The region houses 37% of all prospected tin reserves in the country (630 thousands tons), with Russia mining just 10% (around 500 tons per year), and importing 90%. The main tin suppliers are China, Bolivia and Portugal.…
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