The Kharkiv Machine-Building Works “Corum Svet shakhtera” has produced a modernized KA-200 combine for the mine named after Space Heroes. The combine will be used to mechanically take coal from breakage faces and has a chainless haulage system, which increases the equipment life time. The machine will operate at the depth of 370 meters and…
DetailsInterpipe has appointed Andrei Lukyanov the new products and resources director. The new manager began working on August 1. Lukyanov started working at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (Russia), he then was the transformation director at ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih (2011-2013). While working for Boston Consulting Group Lukyanov participated in Interpipe strategy projects. Before coming…
DetailsAzerGold has concluded an agreement with Bestcomp Group for the delivery of IT-equipment (computers and accessories). The cost of the contract is 211.57 thousand manats. AzerGold was created by the president Ilham Aliyev’s decree in 2015. It prospects, develops and manages gold- and iron-bearing sites Garadag, Chovdar, Geydag, Dagkesemen, Kokhnemeden and the Kyuryakchai basin. (Ukrainian…
DetailsIn January-July Russia increased raw and powder gold manufacture by 11.7% YoY.
According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in July gold output increased by 12.1% YoY, but dropped by 0.1% MoM. (Ukrainian metal)
5 ultrasonic testing units by ScanMaster and BiA have been assembled at the forging complex in the town of Verkhnyaya Salda. Investments totaled 2.7 million euro (188.6 million rubles). VSMPO plans to unite all the ultrasound testing units in one place. For this in July the company started moving 8 units from the south extension…
DetailsOmutninsk Iron and Steel Works is carrying out its program of technical revamping. At present the company is preparing to modernize its steel-smelting capacities, in particular repair its open-hearth shop premises. OMZ faced a shortage of steel because of the increase of rolled metal capacities with the mill-500 being put into operation. To balance the…
DetailsIn January-June, according to the customs statistics, Russia imported 130.4 thousand tons of strips from Austria. In June imports totaled 13 thousand tons, in May – 30.7 thousand tons, the largest volume since October 2016, when Russia started importing strips from Austria. The main customer is Vyksa Iron and Steel Works, which supplies large diameter…
DetailsThe State Security Service has uncovered officials who have bought equipment for a Volyn region state mine in the pro-Russian terrorist-occupied Donbass. An official was born in the now temporarily occupied regions. And he has bought equipment valued at 25 million UAH from a company registered in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic. To adapt the…
DetailsIn January-June, according to the State Statistics Service, Ukraine imported 826.753 thousand tons of coal valued at $77.11 million. In particular, Russia supplied 90.8% of the total volume (750.861 thousand tons valued at $70.8 million). Imports from the South African Republic totaled 75.886 thousand tons valued at $6.299 million. At the same time Ukraine exported…
DetailsOn May 18 – August 18 Metinvest has paid $14.136 million of interest income on new eurobonds with the maturity date of December 31, 2021. The sum consists of $8.445 million of guaranteed interest income at the rate of 2.793%, as well as a part of 6.7595% interest income, paid only if the company has…
DetailsThis year the gold-extracting company Priisk Karakkansky LLC has to get some 70 kg of alluvial gold at its sites. In 2016 the company obtained 382 kg of gold. The considerable drop in the output is the result of the dwindling reserves at the sites. The company has not purchased new licenses yet, and keeps…
DetailsIn June the gold-extracting company Susumanzoloto acquired 100% of the Nedra LLC shares, which owns the license to develop the Shturmovskoye deposits. The project presupposes the construction of a factory with the capacity of the first stage at 200 thousand tons of ore per year. The mine design has already been prepared and it is…
DetailsKorolevsky Pipe Works LLC has opened a sales office in the city of Krasnodar. At present the company is recruiting managers for the new office. At the premises of Tekhmash and Noviy Kubansky Profil LLC, Korolevsky Pipe Works manufactures section pipes of various sizes according to GOST 8645-68 and GOST 8639-82 of cold- and hot-rolled…
DetailsSaranskcable is putting metal manufacture into operation. The company intends to produce aluminum and copper castings and rolled goods with the capacity of 5 thousand and 10 thousand tons per year respectively. Thus the works plans to cover its own needs in aluminum and copper wire rod. The investment volumes have not been disclosed. At…
DetailsUralskaya Kuznitsa has confirmed the correspondence of its certificate to produce materials to be used in aviation industry. The inspection has been carried out by the Aviaregistry of the Interstate aviation committee (AR MAK) and the State regional center of standartization, metrology and certification. The inspectors have checked the quality management system, manufacturing processes and…
DetailsIn January-June Asha Iron and Steel Works received 353.2 million rubles of net profit, down by 19% YoY. According to the company statement, its income increased by 31%, to 11.16 billion rubles. Hot-rolled plate sales totaled 8.7 billion rubles, or 78% of the volume. Rolled sheet sales reached 15%, or 1.7 billion rubles, up by…
DetailsTMK and ChTPZ, accounting for some 45% of Russian large diameter pipes manufacture, decreased local sales because of Gazprom lowering its purchases. In H1 TMK increased earnings by 11% YoY, to $1.54 billion, yet the seamless pipes increase was chiefly countered by the considerable drop in revenue from the sales of welded pipes. In particular,…
DetailsDeputy Minister for Temporary Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons Heorhiy Tuka has said that if there is evidence of shipping coal from the Ukrainian temporarily uncontrolled areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions to Russia, this could be a reason for filing lawsuits to international courts. “These events are not in line with international requirements.…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has produced and shipped a batch of rolls to Zaklad Mechaniczny ELTECH sp. z.o.o. The billets will be used to produce electric machines. The total weight of the rolls is 64.16 tons. The order has been made under the contract concluded in 2011. In August-September, according to the agreement, 12 more rolls with the…
DetailsAccording to the market participants, in September prices for rolled metal will continue growing mostly due to the ongoing price increase on world markets and the ruble weakening. MMK has already informed its customers of the price increase in September, namely of 10-18% on bars and sheets. The seasonal revival of the demand and the…
DetailsThe National anticorruption bureau of Ukraine chairman Artem Sytnik says Dmitry Firtash has bought Zaporozhye Titanium and Magnesium Works for $1. “We’re investigating the case as to the management of ZTMK. And we see that Firtash has taken it for just $1. Of course we’re not investigating the Firtash responsibility at present, but we’re on…
DetailsIn January-June Chukotka autonomous district obtained 14.6 tons of gold, down by 13% YoY. Silver output totaled 76 tons, down by 20%. The decrease is explained for the most part with the drop in reserves and its content at Kupol and Dvoynoye deposits. Chukotka Mining-Geological Company mined the most at Kupol: 5.6 tons of gold…
DetailsChelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has finished modernizing the 6-lane continuous casting machine in its oxygen-steelmaking shop. The modernization will improve the efficiency of the continuous cast billet machine No. 4. The reconstruction implied the previous experience from the repairs of another machine, done in July. The oxygen-steelmaking shop operates 4 continuous casting machines with…
DetailsIn Q2 TMK received $1.07 billion, up by 17% QoQ, with H1 earnings up by 27% YoY, to $2.05 billion. According to the company statement, its corrected EBITDA in Q2 totaled $134 million, down by 6% QoQ, and $275 million in H1, up by 2% YoY. Net losses in Q2 constituted $19 million, with net…
DetailsIn January-July Magadan region fulfilled the gold-mining plan by 51%, having obtained 15.9 tons of gold, up by 2.9 tons YoY. This year the region intends to get 30.9 tons of gold. The growth has been provided by the ore companies, which have mined 2.5 tons more than in 2016. The most gold has been…
DetailsIn January-June KAZ Minerals EBITDA totaled $240 million, up from $91 million in H1 2016.
The company profits in the period increased from $302 million to $721 million.
In 2016 KAZ Minerals increased its gross profit by 43% YoY, to $969 million. (Ukrainian metal)