In January-August gold-extracting companies of Irkutsk region obtained 14.11 tons of gold, down by 2.3% YoY, including 7.466 tons of ore gold and 6.643 tons of alluvial gold. 3 companies mine for ore gold in the region. Pervenets, a part of Polyus, mined 4.18 tons. Vysochaishiy yielded 2.728 tons, and Druza LLC – 558.7 kg.…
DetailsIn January-June Seligdar received 283.3 million rubles of net losses, down by 42% YoY. Earnings increased by 19.6%, to 2.3 billion rubles. Gross profit dropped by 1%, to 699.6 million rubles. Losses before taxation totaled 343.5 million rubles, down by 43%. EBITDA decreased by 16%, to 711.9 million rubles. As of June 30, the company…
DetailsSberbank CIB has signed two loan agreements of providing Vysochaishiy, a part of GV Gold, with $150 million (8.7 billion rubles).
The first agreement presupposes the loan of $100 million (5.8 billion rubles) for 5 years. While the second is for 3 billion rubles ($50 million) for 3 years. (Ukrainian metal)
On September 18, Metinvest intends to pay $13.22 million to the holders of eurobonds with the maturity date of December 31, 2021. The sum consists of $6.7 million for August 18 – September 18, 2017 of non-guaranteed interest at 6.5795%, paid if the company has free funds over $180 million, as well as $6.318 million…
DetailsUkrzaliznytsia is planning to sell another batch of 128 thousand tons of scrap at an auction. According to the company statement, this year the company intends to sell 213 thousand tons of scrap. As of September 1, 81.5 thousand tons have been sold on three auctions. Last year Ukrzaliznytsia sold only 1.3 thousand tons of…
DetailsPJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih granted a certificate for total amount of 3 million UAH to purchase special equipment and repair of two patient rooms in the burn ward to Kriviy Rih Municipal Clinic No. 2 of Dnipropetrovsk Region Council. Kriviy Rih has big medical center – Kriviy Rih Municipal Clinic No. 2 of Dnipropetrovsk Region…
DetailsIn January-July Donetsk region (without the antiterrorist operation zone) decreased output by 12.9% YoY. Coke output in July increased by 7% MoM, but decreased by 12.8% YoY, while metal manufacture decreased by 9.4% and by 25.9% respectively. Coal mining in 7 months totaled 6.4 million tons, down by 23.7% YoY. Pig iron output decreased by…
DetailsIn January-June Sibcable increased enameled wire output by 25% YoY, to 2198 tons. Enameled wire is used to produce and repair engines, electric starters and transformers. It is also used in elevator equipment, electric power plants, etc. Sibcable is the only enterprise over the Urals capable of producing enameled wire. At present it can produce…
DetailsIn January-June Krasnoyarskugol became the leader in power-generating coal mining and sales among Russian Coal enterprises. Coal mining increased by 23% YoY, to 3.2 million tons, while sales rose by 31% because of the growth of deliveries to power generating companies and for exports. In the long-term the Russian Coal Group of Companies will increase…
DetailsAleksandrinskaya Mining Company is improving the system of transport and miners positioning at its copper-zinc mine “Chebachye”. Investments will total 5 million rubles. The system started operating in 2016. As the mine is constantly increasing in size, the system needs to be increased as well. This year 57 new antennae will be assembled in the…
DetailsBratsk Ferroalloys Works has appointed Sergey Sokolov the managing director of the company. The ex-manufacturing and quality director of Kuznetskiye Ferrosplavy replaced the acting managing director Mikhail Mikhailov, who retired. Mikhailov contributed a lot to the development of Bratsk Ferroalloys Works. With his participation the company has reconstructed the smelting furnace No. 4, as well…
DetailsIn July world pig iron manufacture increased by 4.7% YoY, to 101.589 million tons. Ukraine with 1.79 million tons is on the 9th place, followed by Taiwan (1.25 million tons). China remained the leader with 62.07 million tons. In June pig iron manufacture increased by 2.1% YoY, to 99.603 million tons, with Ukraine producing 1.52…
DetailsKola MMC, a part of the Nornickel Group, has embarked on the first stage of the railroad construction at its Monchegorsk site to address an increase in metal production. According to the refining flowchart, the railway transport is used to deliver feedstock (converter matte from Nikel and Norilsk) to the site, transport semi-products obtained at…
DetailsAccording to the State Fiscal Service, because of the seizure of Ukrainian companies on the uncontrolled part of Donbass in April-June the state budget has not received around 110 million UAH, while the local budget – some 125 million UAH. In January-July Ukraine increased anthracite coal imports 2-fold YoY, including from Russia. In 2016 Ukraine…
DetailsAluminum Casting Works LLC has purchased the real estate of the insolvent Aluminum Casting Works CJSC. The new owner acquired the manufacturing premises of the Altai company with all the extensions (total size – 40.6 thousand square meters), the right to lease a land plot in the city of Barnaul (35.5 thousand square meters), as…
DetailsPervouralsky Pipe Works has passed the certification audit and received the certificate for compliance with the Gazprom 9001-2012 standard requirements in the Intergazcert system. The successful passing of the audit has confirmed the correspondence of PNTZ quality management system to the Gazprom corporate standard for suppliers. The Intergazcert system of voluntary certification was created by…
DetailsIn January-June Kamensk-Uralsky Iron and Steel Works received 60.4 million rubles of profit, down 60-fold YoY.
EBITDA totaled 117 million rubles against 4.6 billion rubles in H1 2016.
At the same time revenue increased by 6.5%, to 12.38 billion rubles. (Ukrainian metal)
Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Works is entering a new stage of the boiler house construction to replace the old one. “The main task of this stage is the assembly of the fourth boiler, which will allow us finishing the construction of walls. At present the contractor is operating according to the schedule, equipment is delivered in time”,…
DetailsZagorsky Pipe Works has started the imports replacing program with the main goal of developing the segment of spare parts suppliers for Hauesler and Selmers lines that are needed for scheduled and emergency repairs. At present 76 items have already been worked out. The total number of parts is 836. According to the mechanism of…
DetailsAvdiivka Coke and Chemical Works, the largest by-product chemical plant in Europe, is worried about the plans of Ukrzaliznytsia to increase railroad transportation tariffs by 22.5%, as this will increase the prime cost of the products and could affect output level. “I’ve learned of the Infrastructure Ministry decree on another railroad tariff increase by 22.5%.…
DetailsThe Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Ukraine will help to receive access to foreign markets by Ukrainian pipe manufacturers, in particular, the markets of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), especially Kazakhstan and Belarus. The ministry said in a press release that the obstacles for supplies of Ukrainian pipes to foreign markets were discussed at…
DetailsThe Cabinet of Ministers has granted the United Mining and Chemical Company 3 land plots with the combined size of 154 ha to increase the territory of industrial mining of titanium ores. The corresponding decision was made on August 30. The land was given to the UMCC subsidiary – Irshansk GOK. In particular it received…
DetailsIn January-June Severstal Distribution increased metal sales by 5% YoY, to 808 thousand tons. In Russia Severstal sold 410 thousand tons of metal, up by 12% YoY. To EU – 330 thousand tons, on par with H1 2016. This year the company pays special attention to such products as rebars and plated rolled metal. The…
DetailsIn January-June MidUral Group enterprises sold 6.2 thousand tons of ferroalloys. In particular the group sold 3.3 thousand tons of metallic chrome (down from 3.9 thousand tons in H1 2016), 2.1 thousand tons of ferrochrome (2.5 thousand tons), 156 tons of ferrotitanium (272 tons) and 826 tons of other ferroalloys (449 tons). Customers also received…
DetailsEmployees of the Rodinskaya mine (the state enterprise Mirnogradugol) went underground but refused working as a sign of protest against the non-payment of salary. According to the chairman of the Independent Miners Union Mikhail Volynets, the miners demand full clearing of July salary debts and advance payment for August. The miners remember the words of…
DetailsThe Ministry of energy and coal industry has recommended increasing the sale price of coal from state mines for power-generating companies and combined heat and power plants by 5%, to 2200 UAH per ton (without VAT and transport costs) to make the enterprises profitable. The corresponding decision was made at the meeting chaired by the…
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