Metalloinvest net profits increased 2.2-fold YoY in January-March, to $391 million. The company earnings went up by 85.1%, to $1.52 billion rubles, mostly thanks to the considerable increase of iron ore and steel products average prices, as well as the increase of high added value products sales. EBITDA jumped 2.9-fold, to $527 million. The mining…
DetailsThe net profit of Russian metals and mining group Mechel, attributable to shareholders, jumped to 13.902 billion rubles in January-March from 312 million rubles in the same period of 2016, as calculated under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the company said in a statement on May 31. Consolidated revenue increased by 24%, to 77.414 billion…
DetailsIn 2016 Zaporizhstal increased profits by 89.6% YoY, to 5.2 billion UAH ($201 million). According to Metinvest statement, Zaporizhstal earnings dropped by 9.7%, to $1.321 billion, while its EBITDA increased by 7.8%, to $165 million. Metinvest owns 49.9% of Zaporizhstal shares, 24% of Zaporozhye Iron Ore Complex, 42.8% in Zaporozhkoks and 49.2% in Zaporozhogneupor. Yuzhniy…
DetailsIn 2016 the net profit of Metinvest totaled $118 million as opposed to $1.003 billion of net losses in 2015. EBITDA increased 2-fold, to $1.153 billion. Among other things, the EBITDA increase was the result of the drop of raw materials prices, mainly coal, coke and scrap (by $94 million), partially compensated for by the…
DetailsThe average monthly salary in Vologda region in January-March increased by 5.2% YoY, to 30361 rubles. According to the Vologdastat, in March the increase was even larger – 6.6% MoM, to 31794 rubles. The leaders are still the Cherepovets chemical enterprises, followed by Severstal, which increased average salary by 4.9%, to 69068 rubles in Q1.…
DetailsVyksa Iron and Steel Works will produce wheels of premium quality for the innovative trains of the Moscow subway. By the end of the year VMZ will have supplied 3 thousand wheels of new type to the manufacturer of wagons – Metrovagonmash. The diameter of the wheels produced of L-grade steel will be 860 mm.…
DetailsIn January-April Rusal saved 25.56 million rubles by decreasing electricity consumption. The company is one of the developers and initiators of implementation of a new mechanism in electricity consumption in Russia and the only company to participate in the program of the price-dependant decrease of electricity consumption, having joined it in 2017. The mechanism presupposes…
DetailsA batch of large diameter pipes produced at Zagorsky Pipe Works will be delivered to one of the most eastern parts of Russia using the multi-modal transportation. The lot includes 820 and 1020 mm diameter pipes produced under GOST 20295-85. The pipes will be used in the construction of the heating pipeline. At first the…
DetailsGold bars of Kara-Balta refinery meet international standards. This is confirmed by a special LBMA certificate issued to the enterprise. As the press service of Kyrgyzaltyn OJSC reported, the refining plant has successfully passed certification according to LBMA standards (London Bullion Market Association). The document confirms that, since 2016, the production at the refinery has…
DetailsThe Stepnaya mine in Pershotravensk, Dnieporpetrovsk region, has put into operation a new long face with reserves of over 800 thousand tons of coal. According to DTEK, the owner of the mine, investment in the development reached 70 million UAH. The new long face is expected to yield some 3 thousand tons of gas coal…
DetailsKomsomolskoye Mine Group, nationalized by the terrorist organization Donetsk People’s Republic, created and supported by Russia, has been transferred to the ownership of Vneshtorgservice. “I have an interesting document. This is the certificate of the registration in the so-called DPR of a new owner of one of the Metinvest assets – Komsomolskoye Mine Group. The…
DetailsBeloretsk Iron and Steel Works has provided its mother company Mechel with a 5-year loan of 1.35 billion rubles.
The companies do not disclose the conditions of the deal.
The goal of the loan is to carry out financial and commercial activity by Mechel. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-April gold miners of Khabarovsk Krai yielded 4418.5 kg of gold, up by 0.5 tons of the target. All the gold was obtained from ore deposits. The region has also exceeded silver output – 18180.1 kg instead of 14240 kg planned. According to the local environment ministry, the increase is the result of the…
DetailsUkrainian miners, as usual, do not receive salary for several months. But the Cabinet of Ministers claims that it has already provided money to clear debts, and salary will rise. The price of 1 ton of coal will increase from 1730 UAH to 2 thousand UAH. According to the minister of energy and coal industry…
DetailsAktyubinsk Copper Company, a part of Russian Copper Company, has set development plans. The Vesenne-Aralchinskoye deposits, situated near the border with Russia, will be operated on both sides of the border. For this AMK will construct a plant with the capacity of 500 thousand tons of ore per year. The mine will be operating for…
DetailsKarabashmed, a part of the Russia Copper Company, has started assembling the new automated copper-pouring line and three new converters with the volume of 150 tons each. The modernization of the machinery will increase the company capacity to 150 thousand tons of copper per year. Karabashmed will also reconstruct its power shop and the oxygen…
DetailsNorilsk Nickel has received a 521-million rubles loan from Sberbank for the construction of the magnetite concentrate drying shop of the Bystrinsky Mining and Processing Works. Bystrinskoye deposit is among the largest in the world as to copper, gold, silver and iron reserves. The GOK is planned to start operating in 2017 and will reach…
DetailsOn May 29 Zagorsky Pipe Works produced the first pipe for Gazprom. The first batch of pipes with 1020 and 1420 mm diameter and outer three-layer insulation will be supplied to the customer in June. The agreement on the delivery was reached in April. Under the contract ZTZ will produce over 121 thousand tons of…
DetailsIsaevskiy Machine-Building Plant intends to invest 450 million rubles into development. According to the authorities of Rostov region, the company has already purchased the electric-welded pipe mill. It will be put into operation in 2018-2019. The mill will expand the product range and increase the output by 80%. The company planned to put the new…
DetailsRosterminalugol JSC, the largest dedicated coal port in the Baltic region, a part of Russia’s largest coal port holding Port Management Company LLC, has exported 9 million tons of coal this year (as of May 29). According to the company, the terminal’s throughput surged by 41% YoY. The milestone ton was loaded onto Post-Panamax lainpalais,…
DetailsIn Kerch on the territory of Kerch Iron and Steel Works 200 employees held a meeting demanding their salary debts to be cleared and the operation of the company resumed. The event was attended by the Russian State Duma deputy Konstantin Bakharev, who was then taken away by the ambulance, as well as the “city…
DetailsDTEK intends to import up to 100 thousand tons of coal from its mines in Russia each month. “In the first place the coal will be supplied to Lugansk Thermal Power Plant, but also to Kriviy Rih TPP”, the company CEO Maxim Timchenko said. At the same time DTEK does not plan to import coal…
DetailsFrom June 12 tо 16, the corporate Learning Week will be held at ArcelorMittal University Campus in Ukraine. By tradition, it will consist of the great number of master classes, business games, training sessions and other developmental activities. This year the focus will be made on such aspects as personal growth, interaction with people, state-of-the-art…
DetailsMilitants of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization created and supported by Russia, are looking for sales markets for Komsomolskoye Mine Group on the territory of Russia. The terrorists are trying to reorient the once major flux supplier to Russian enterprises. The company employs some 1 thousand people as opposed to around 4…
DetailsThe Ministry of economic development and trade has announced another competition for the office of the Powder Metallurgy Works (Kiev region) director. According to the ministry, applications are accepted through June 23, the competition will start on July 11, and the results will be available on August 4. On February 1, 2016 the ministry declared…
DetailsProduction of thermal and coking coal in Ukraine declined by 3.2% YoY in January-April, to 13.069 million tons, according to the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry’s press service. State-owned mines alone produced 1.673 million tons of coal or 12.8% of the total output over the period under review, while coal production at the state…
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