In August Dneprospetsstal increased steel output by 10% MoM, to 23 thousand tons. Pig iron manufacture went up by 3.7%, to 14 thousand tons. The total cost of products manufactured in August dropped by 8.4% MoM, to 611.6 million UAH. In January-August DSS produced 172 thousand tons of steel and 113 thousand tons of rolled…
DetailsThe state enterprise South Machine-Building Works named after Makarov (Yuzhmash) has ordered 245 million rubles (111.32 million UAH) worth of aluminum from Alfa-Metal LLC (Russia). By late 2019 the company will have supplied EXW Moscow 210 tons of rolled aluminum of various sizes at the average price of 1119 rubles or 508 UAH per kg,…
DetailsThe Zaporozhye regional department of the State Property Fund has decreased the price of the state enterprise Aluminum Foil Works 2-fold. The initial price of the works is 583.977 million UAH (with VAT), previously it was set for auctions at 1.159 billion UAH. The new auction will take place on October 13. The capacity of…
DetailsKorshunovsky quarry of the Korshunovsky Mining and Processing Works has mined the 500-millionth ton of ore. The anniversary ton of ore will be processed and supplied to Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works. The first ton of ore from Korshunovsky quarry was shipped in December 1964, 3 months before the enterprise was officially created. The first…
DetailsBeloretsk Iron and Steel Works has organized testing 4 new grades of wire for boiler and oil-and-gas machinery. The results allow expanding the sales market and increasing the share of the high value products. The first batches of new products (20 tons) have already been produced and shipped to the customer. The wire has been…
DetailsHigh demand for steel and low stocks of Chinese traders, US import duties and high expenses on raw materials are among the factors influencing the world steel price increase. Moreover blast furnace manufacture in Northern China is expected to be limited, which will result in the drop of output by 50 million tons. Thus prices…
DetailsThe supervisory board of Zaporozhye Vtormet has relieved the acting chairman of the board Alexander Umrikhin of his duties, appointing the shop director Konstantin Beskorovayniy instead.
The term of the office has not been stipulated, but Beskorovayniy has been hired with a 3-month trial term.
Zaporozhye Vtormet procures and processes ferrous scrap. (Ukrainian metal)
In August Ukrainian metal companies increased natural gas consumption by 10 million cubic meters MoM, to 140 million cubic meters. Average daily gas consumption increased by 0.3 million cubic meters, to 4.5 million cubic meters. In January-August metal companies consumed 1.2 billion cubic meters of gas, up by 2% YoY. Average daily consumption was 4.7…
DetailsIn August Ukrainian metal companies received 270 thousand tons of scrap, down by 20 thousand tons MoM, or 86% of their need. In 8 months they received 2.1 million tons, up by 6% YoY, but just 89% of their need. Scrap stocks at metal companies in August decreased by 30 thousand tons, to 110 thousand…
DetailsUkrmetallurgprom forecasts that in October Ukraine will produce 2 million tons of steel, 1.9 million tons of pig iron and 1.7 million tons of rolled metal. In August steel output totaled 1.925 million tons, pig iron – 1.817 million tons, and rolled metal – 1.609 million tons. In January-August Ukraine decreased steel manufacture by 16%…
DetailsAccording to the Ministry of economy, in 8 months Kazakhstan mined 26 million tons of iron ore, up by 11.4% YoY. In January-July iron ore raw materials output increased by 32.7% YoY, and concentrate by 2.1%. In money terms iron ore raw materials output in 7 months increased by 57% YoY, to 144.1 billion tenge.…
DetailsAnglo Asian Mining PLC has launched production of gold and silver at the Ugur deposit, located in Gedabek. Ugur is already making a highly significant contribution to Anglo Asian’s production, the company’s press service reported. “The average daily gold production in the form of gold Doré on September 1-10 was 212 ounces, up by 116%…
DetailsThe press-service of the Lviv regional state administration reported, that on September 12 the state enterprise Lvivugol received 30 million UAH for selling coal.
Thanks to this miners were paid 32% of their August salary. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2017 Vysochaishiy (GV Gold) intends to receive over $200 million of revenue. “The increase against the last year level and the target will mostly be associated with the change in the price for gold”, the company CEO Herman Pikhoya said. The company is also planning to have an IPO at the Moscow exchange, probably…
DetailsYuri Derkach has been appointed the acting CEO of the Ukrainian Association of Secondary Metals. Previously he worked in the Ministries of industrial policy and economical development and trade until his retirement. The previous UAVtormet CEO Nikolai Tarapurov retired. The final decision on the CEO appointment will be taken at the association meeting in November.…
DetailsIn the metal machining shop of Energomashspetsstal a new 6620 bed-type mill has been put in operation. The mill is used to machine the surface of steel wares with the weight of up to 50 tons. The new mill has better technological advantages. It allows improving the quality of the billets machined, reaching a new…
DetailsThe Amur artel obtained 942 kg of platinum, including 276 kg in August.
The Amur Zoloto ore deposits yielded 727.2 kg of gold and 481 kg of silver.
The Buor and Ulakhan alluvial gold sites produced 295 kg of gold.
The total gold output in January-August reached 1028.6 kg. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-August the throughput of Russian seaports increased by 10.4% YoY, to 517.3 million tons.
According to the Association of sea trade ports, coal throughput totaled 102.7 million tons, up by 15%, while that of ferrous metals – 18.7 million tons, down by 1.5%. (Ukrainian metal)
The Federal Antimonopoly Service has allowed Severstal to buy 100% of shares in the Metal Group LLC, which owns a license to develop the central part of the Yakovlevskoe iron ore deposits in Belgorod region. In July Severstal reported on the closing of the deal to buy the claims to the company in the amount…
DetailsThe share of steel semi-finished products, slabs and billets in the export volume in January-August decreased to 35.9% from 45.6% in 2016. At the same time the physical volumes of steel semis exports dropped from 5.491 million tons to 3.831 million tons. Long rolled metal exports decreased from 3.197 million tons to 2.359 million tons,…
DetailsThe sea trade port Yuzhniy has started unloading the first batch of anthracite coal from the USA. According to the port press service, the Ocean Ambitious with 62 thousand tons of power-generating coal arrived at night. The port intends to unload the whole vessel in 3 days. The vessel left the port of Baltimore in…
DetailsVyksa Iron and Steel Works will start producing casing, compressor-pump and oil-and-gas pipes in late 2018. According to the company managing director Alexander Barykov, VMZ has started reassembling shops. The works intends to produce the first batch of pipes during the next year, and after that a mass production will be organized. Investments in the…
DetailsIn January-August Chukotka Autonomous District yielded 17.1 tons of gold, down by 12% YoY. In particular, ore gold totaled 15.3 tons, down by 15% YoY, and 1.8 tons – alluvial gold, up by 17% YoY. Silver output reached 87.8 tons, down by 20% YoY. Ore gold output decline is connected with the thinning of reserves…
DetailsUralcable has put in operation a new Italian extrusion line valued at 51.4 million rubles (750 thousand euro). The capacity of the new line is 10 times higher compared to the old one, which has been disassembled. “The speed of the Frigeco line is 800 meters per minute. Our old line could not do more…
DetailsZaporozhkoks will increase the volume of coke gas supplies to Zaporizhstal to 17 million cubic meters per year. Under the energy efficient project to supply secondary gases to Zaporizhstal, Zaporozhkoks has modernized the coke gas regulator of the waste-heat boiler. This allowed decreasing volume of gas going to the boiler to 2 thousand cubic meters…
DetailsA consortium of China Coal Technology & Engineering Group Corp. and China Railway Tunnel Group Co., Ltd. has started the main preparatory work within the project to modernize capacities of Uzbekistan’s Shargunkumir JSC, an official with the Uzbekcoal JSC reported. The project worth $94.5 million is expected to be implemented in the first quarter of…
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