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In 2016 Russia exported 185.7 thousand tons of raw nickel to the world market, down by 18% YoY. According to the Federal Customs Service, exports to far foreign countries dropped by 18%, to 185.3 thousand tons, but to CIS-countries – doubled to 0.4 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsEvraz NTMK has finished the technical modernization of the forging division of its foundry shop. The new equipment will decrease gas consumption by 10% and metal usage by 6%. According to the company statement, the operation schedule has been changed at the shop. A new crane, a semi-automatic band saw and a modernized boring machine…
DetailsOn February 28, Amurmetal resumes operation after an almost monthly stand still. The company will be working at night under cheaper energy tariffs. So far 9 thousand tons of scrap have been accumulated. In late January Amurmetal was purchased by Torex (Khabarovsk) for 2.46 billion rubles. The purchase agreement has not been signed yet, though…
DetailsDonetsk Iron and Steel Works, a part of Donetskstal, has shut down its blast furnace No. 1 because of the absence of iron ore raw materials caused by the railroad blockade. On February 26, the daily shift smelted 400 thousand tons of pig iron, and the BF was shut down. The BF-1 used to produce…
DetailsZaporizhstal ranked first among the steel plants of Zaporizhia region in terms of taxes paid to the national budget in 2016, said the National Tax Inspection Agency for operations with major taxpayers of Zaporizhia. In 2016, major taxpayers of the region paid more than UAH 10 billion in taxes to the national and local budgets,…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has started hot tests of coke oven battery No. 6, the newest in technology of stamp charging and the first of its kind in Ukraine. Adjustment and pre-commissioning works are in progress, coking chambers have been charged and first trial coke has been successfully produced at coke shop No. 1 of the…
DetailsKazakhstan, which is the biggest uranium producer in the world, plans to decrease uranium production by 8%, or by 2,000 tons in 2017 (about 3% of total global output), Kazakh State Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna said in a report. The output will be reduced due to weak market conditions triggered mostly by a global oversupply. In…
DetailsAccording to Interpipe, in 2017 Ukraine will become a net-importer of scrap. The company believes that this year the situation with scrap procurement will further worsen. In 2017 Ukraine will procure 2.9-3.1 million tons of scrap. This is less than what was delivered to local companies in 2016 (3.2 million tons), and much less than…
DetailsThe Donbass blockade could result in the Kramatorsk Ferroalloys Works shutting down, as the coking coal from the occupied Gorlovka and Alchevsk could not reach the plant. “We have absolutely no coke left”, the company blast furnace shop director Alexander Shikhov said. If the blast furnace is shut down, the whole plant will be closed…
DetailsFollowing the increase of the minimal wage to 3200 UAH from January 1, metal companies of Mariupol, nevertheless, do not plan to fire employees. According to Azovstal HR director Konstantin Voitsekhovsky, all the jobs have been kept. “As of January the average salary was 10 thousand UAH. That’s considerably higher compared to the average salary…
DetailsDneprovsky Iron and Steel Works, a part of the Industrial Union of Donbass, has started replacing coke from Alchevskkoks, blocked in the ATO zone, with deliveries from Poland. As of February 21, there was a threat of the works halting altogether. “Every day we try to find money to pay for the daily norm of…
DetailsIn January Ukrainian by-product coke works produced 1.008 million tons of 6% moisture coke, down by 7.5% YoY. December 2016 saw the output on the level of 997 thousand tons. “In January there was a slight increase in production, but February will be a failure. Alchevskkoks has halted, Yenakievo, Makeevka, and Yasinovsky Coke Works all…
DetailsIn 2017 Ukrainian metal structure manufacturers plan to increase exports to Poland at least 2-fold. Last year metal structure exports to Poland totaled 2 thousand tons, or 27% of all metal structure exports abroad (7.5 thousand tons). “2016 exports to Poland quadrupled from 500 tons in 2015. Taking into account the high interest of Ukrainian…
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