SteelAsia Manufacturing Corp. (the Philippines) has concluded an agreement with two Russian companies aiming at long-term cooperation with them. Under the $250 million contract Evraz will annually supply 50 thousand tons of billets to SteelAsia works in Davao City and in the Bulakan province. In Q1 the group purchased 240 thousand tons of Russian billets…
DetailsThe Oktyabrskiy mine, a part of Norilsk Nickel, has started the capital repairs of the northern part of the skip shaft No. 1. The repair will see the overhaul of 250 tons of equipment and metal structures. The previous repair was carried out in 2005. The cost of the works is 50 million rubles. The…
DetailsThe new EKG-18 excavator has started operating at the Neryugrinsky open-pit mine of Yakutugol, a part of Mechel. This is the second machine that has started operating there since the beginning of the year. The excavator has been purchased for 600 million rubles within the modernization program. The ladle volume is 18 cubic meters. The…
DetailsAccording to the minister of natural resources and ecology of the Magadan region Vladimir Mitkin, over 1.7 tons of gold and 38 tons of silver will be mined in Stednekansk district this year. “As of May 1 the district has already mined over 1150 kg of ore gold and around 11 tons of ore silver”,…
DetailsMagnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works held an annual meeting of the shareholders. They have approved of the annual report and the accounting report for 2016, as well as decided to pay dividends for 2016 in the amount of 1.242 rubles per share. Earlier the shareholders received dividends for the first half of 2016 in the…
DetailsIn April Zlatoust Iron and Steel Works electric arc welding shop No. 2 produced 3880 tons of liquid steel with the target of 4770 tons. The decrease of output, according to the deputy manufacturing director Oleg Rodionov, has to do with the shortage of scrap in early April. Shop No. 3 was in the same…
DetailsNovolipetsk Iron and Steel Works has produced the 250-millionth ton of hot-rolled metal since its mill 2000 was put into operation in 1969. This volume equals to the weight of 39 Great Pyramids of Giza or 1500 Burj-Khalifas. The first Soviet mill of the third generation – mill 2000 – with the capacity of 5.78…
DetailsGazpromtrubinvest intends to enter the new segments of the market, where the pipes, which cannot be welded, are used. Thus the company will build a seamless pipe manufacture. A three-roll technology will be used to reach the precision of the welded products. After the construction is complete, GPTI will have a unique manufacturing complex to…
DetailsMagnesit Group has begun an active stage of a major investment project realization – the construction of the fused magnesia manufacture. The company has signed an agreement with Sinosteel, China. The construction at the Satka manufacturing site of the group in Chelyabinsk region will commence in autumn. The company will build a plant with the…
DetailsEvraz (Russia) has entered into an agreement to sell its PJSC Evraz Sukhaya Balka iron ore mining and beneficiation plant in Ukraine to a firm belonging to Oleksandr Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group for $110 million excluding the debt, Evraz said in a statement. “Berklemond Investments Ltd, a part of Oleksandr Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group, has acquired Evraz…
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