In January-April Russian raw nickel exports totaled 48 thousand tons valued at $462 million.
According to the customs statistics, this is down by 30.7% and by 20.8% YoY respectively, and the lowest indexes for the last 10 years. (Ukrainian metal)
Polymetal has received 3 licenses in the Primorye region with the combined reserves of 1 thousand tons of silver and 2 tons of gold. Previously the license-holder for the sites was Primorye Mining Company Vostok. The Kumirny site is the most interesting to the company, as its estimated reserves as of 2010 were 440 tons…
DetailsWithin the program of developing cooperation with Yichang, Zaporizhstal has been visited by a delegation headed by the deputy mayor. The guests have been shown ecological modernization projects, including the reconstruction of the blast furnace No. 3 with investments at 1.5 billion UAH and the modernization of the sintering factory gas-purifying machines. “We have something…
DetailsDespite the decrease in sales at the start of the year due to the low customer activity on the background of the high prices, Staltrans has been able to stabilize and even strengthen its positions on the metal wares market. In March the company sold 3883 tons of wares, up by 17.5% MoM, while the…
DetailsTrubodetal Works, a part of OMK, has confirmed the correspondence of its quality, environment and labor safety management systems according to ISO and OHSAS. The audit has been carried out by TUV NORD CERT GmbH, which has recommended providing Trubodetal with the new certificates of ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/TS 29001:2010 as well as confirming OHSAS…
DetailsEvraz has finalized the deal on selling 100% of Nakhodka sea trade port to its main shareholder Lanebrook Limited for $354.4 million. In May Evraz sold its Ukrainian Evraz Sukhaya Balka mine to Berklemond Investments Ltd. In March Evraz announced it was selling Yuzhkoks. And in 2015 it sold Dneprodzerzhinsk Coke Plant to Lanebrook Ltd.,…
DetailsPJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has carried out the first transactions for acquisition of the premises in “Zhukovka village” (Lavrenyova and Chystopilska streets of Saksahanskiy district of Kriviy Rih city). The purchase and sales transactions were carried out in line with the legislation of Ukraine and with the company’s previously announced offer to purchase here each…
DetailsRussian coal producer Raspadskaya will consider paying final dividends for 2017, investment company Aton said in a research note after meeting with representatives for Raspadskaya’s parent company Evraz. But the company does not want to rush with dividends, as good financial results for January-June may be temporary due to the pressure from the rising ruble…
DetailsYuzhuralzoloto Group of Companies (UGK) has started transferring Darasun Mine LLC to the future owner – Uryumkan LLC. The transfer started on June 1. In May there was a strike at the mine: 81 miners refused to get back to the surface protesting against not receiving salary for April. At that time UGK president and…
DetailsOn June 14, the state enterprise Lvivugol received 26 million UAH from the sales of coal. “This money has all been spent to pay salary to the miners. In particular, they received 31% of the May salary. On June 7 miners were paid 100% of their April wages”, the press service of the Lviv regional…
DetailsInoxpoint goes on expanding the geography of sales in Russia. Now it has opened a subsidiary in Kazan.
The subsidiary offers the wide range of stainless rolled metal from the leading world manufacturers.
At present the company trades in stainless sheet, bars and sections, etc. (Ukrainian metal)
Yug-Met has started producing copper wire rod corresponding to high environment standards – the company has purchased a modern gas-purifying machine.
Yug-Met is the largest manufacturer of non-ferrous metal wares, including copper wire rod, in the South of Russia. (Ukrainian metal)
Tulachermet is getting ready for the capital repairs of its blast furnace No. 3.
The repairs will start on July 20 and end in 20 days.
The supplier of the refractory concrete has already been chosen, as the overhaul presupposes the restoration of the BF3 shaft lining. (Ukrainian metal)
Irshansk Mining and Processing Works has concluded 2 agreements with Unitrans Operator LLC for the railroad transportation of cargo valued at 32.55 million UAH. By the end of the year the company will have transported 1400 hoppers of ilmenite concentrate to the port of Odessa at 18174 UAH per car, and 360 hoppers to the…
DetailsThe state enterprise Lvivugol has concluded an agreement with Lviv Coal Company on processing coal valued at 105.93 million UAH.
The additional purchase has been carried out via negotiations procedure from the same previous supplier.
This year 1.12 million tons of coal will be processed at the price of 95 UAH per ton. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-May Ukraine mined 15.883 million tons of coal, down by 3.2% YoY, or by 517.2 thousand tons. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal output dropped by 26%, or by 993.1 thousand tons, to 2820.9 thousand tons, while that of power-generating coal increased by 3.8%, or by 475.9 thousand tons,…
DetailsIn 2-3 years Rosszoloto intends to construct a gold-processing factory in Amur region valued at $250 million. The company is also looking for an investor to further develop the project with the aim of attracting $500 million. In three years from the start of the investment project Rosszoloto plans to obtain the first 48.23 million…
DetailsPolymetal Int has acquired additional 25% of shares in the gold deposits Dolinnoye for $1.6 million, having increased its stake to 50%. “With this deal we strengthen our Varvarinsky hub. We expect to start processing ore there in Q3”, the company chief executive director Vitaly Nesis said. The ore reserves of the deposits according to…
DetailsThe modernization of the Svetlinsky Ferronickel Works is soon to be complete in Orenburg region. In August the company intends to start manufacturing a new product – ferronickel-containing bloom from Buruktalskoye deposits ore. The company believes that by August it will have been ready to produce the first batch. Modernization of the works started in…
DetailsVTB bank has reported that it has started cooperation with “UralSibTrade. Siberian region” and has opened a 150 million rubles line for 2 years for it. The goal of the financing is the crediting of the current operations. “We carry out work with companies interested in the development of their business. I am sure that…
DetailsThe Volgograd subsidiary of Redaelli SSM (Severstal-Metiz) has put into operation a new rope-making machine. Investments in the project totaled 300 million rubles. The machine can produce 6- and 8-therad ropes with the diameter of 28-100 mm. Such steel ropes are used in mines and on excavators. The capacity of the machine is 40 meters…
DetailsThe rail-beam shop of Evraz NTMK has started manufacturing a new product – crane rails KR-100. The first 300 tons of rails have already been shipped to the customers. KR-100 rails are made of K-76F steel. This year the shop has already started producing KR-80 rails. Evraz NTMKL also produces KR-70 and KR-120 rails according…
DetailsGlobal rating agency Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded the outlook for ratings of Polyus Gold International Limited, which holds a majority stake in Russia’s largest gold miner Polyus, to Stable from Negative, the agency said in a statement on June 14. It also affirmed a corporate family rating of the company at Ba1 and the…
DetailsIn January-May Electrostal increased continuous cast billet output by 36.42% YoY, to 167.808 thousand tons. According to the company statement, it exported 121.3 thousand tons, and supplied the rest to the local market. In May Electrostal produced 39.669 thousand tons of billets, exporting 39.648 thousand tons. In 2016 the company produced 326.187 thousand tons of…
DetailsPrices in industry in May decreased by 1.3% after an increase of 1.6% in April, 3.5% in March and 3.1% in February. According to the State Statistics Service, the main reason of the decline was the price drop of metallic ores (by 22%). In mining and quarrying the product price decrease was 9.8%, while in…
DetailsIn April ferrous scrap exports totaled 434 thousand tons, up by 26.8% MoM, but down by 36% YoY. According to the customs statistics, in January-April exports reached 1.21 million tons, down by 29.4% YoY, the lowest result for the past 7 years. The main importers were Turkey (34.3%), Belarus (30%) and South Korea (22%). (Ukrainian…
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