In January-November Amursky Ugol mined 3.1 million tons of coal. Out of the total volume the Severo-Vostochny pit yielded 1.2 million tons, up by 12% YoY. Yerkovetsky pit miners obtained 1.9 million tons of coal. This year the company has supplied over 1 million tons of coal to utility and housing enterprises of the Amur…
DetailsKrasniy Octyabr Iron and Steel Works will assemble new equipment in its rolled metal treatment shop – two scalping machines PL 370 and PL 250, as well as the 2-roll straightening machine RLL 250. All the machinery is manufactured by Danieli (Italy). The new machines will replace old mills, increase output as well as process…
DetailsShareholders of Lysva Iron and Steel Works have approved of the board of directors reelection and the cancellation of the management agreement with Lysva Metallurgical Company LLC, as well as attracting a 3-year loan of 4 billion rubles at 8% from MMK. MMK managers have also been elected to the board of directors. LMZ capacity…
DetailsIn January-November Ukraine received $7.848 billion from the exports of ferrous metals, up by 18.5% YoY. According to the State Fiscal Service, ferrous metals accounted for 19.88% of the total export revenue against 20.24% in January-November 2016. In November ferrous metals exports earned Ukraine $932.47 million, up from $744.43 million in October. Imports increased by…
DetailsThe State Property Fund has set a list of enterprises to be privatized in 2018. According to the fund chairman Vitaly Trubarov, Zaporozhye Titanium and Magnesium Works is on the list. The fund intends to fulfill the privatization plan of 22.5 billion UAH. “This is the real amount, which the fund will reach. Soon the…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has shipped a batch of rolls to Zaporizhstal. According to the company statement, the batch comprised of supporting rolls for cold- and hot-rolling with the total weight of 278.37 tons. The order has been carried out under the contract signed in 2011. In 2016 EMSS received the net loss of 1.497 billion UAH, down…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih is at the head of the exporters rating. According to the company statement, the rating has been created by the “Top-100. Ratings of the largest” magazine on the basis of 2016 operation. Last year the top-100 companies exported over 450 billion UAH worth of products, up 2-fold YoY. ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih exported…
DetailsIn April-December Zagorsky Pipe Works received 55 thousand tons of rolled metal from South Korea. The delivery time from Posco to the warehouse is 25 days, which is almost twice faster mostly thanks to the Vladivostok Sea Trade Port and Russian Railroads. “The decrease in delivery time of rolled sheet brings South Korea closer to…
DetailsKrasnoyarsk Iron and Steel Works has commissioned a new press mill to manufacture products of easily and hard-deformable alloys. The Spanish Gia Clecim Press press is one of the most powerful in KraMZ press manufacture. Its size is around 3 thousand square meters. “The press capacity is over 450 tons per months. These products can…
DetailsSaratov Works of Reservoir Metal Structures has been declared insolvent. During the supervisory procedure, which has lasted since the beginning of the year, the insolvency officer has analyzed the company financial activity and decided that it will be impossible to restore solvency, as debts reach 1.26 billion rubles. The works was created in 1947 as…
DetailsChelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has increased the processing of iron-containing wastes. In 11 months the company has already exceeded the previous 5 years waste processing results. Sludge or mud is the by-product of manufacture. It is created during the operation of the blast furnaces. Because of the high iron content (around 40%) these wastes…
DetailsOfficials in Kyrgyzstan discussed how to reduce the price of local coal, the State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use reported. Currently, four companies in two shifts are working at an open pit in Kara-Keche. Every day 4,500-5,000 tons of coal are mined. There is a checkpoint guarded by the police at the entrance.…
DetailsA local resident Jeenbek Kurbanov was killed in coalmine No. 5 in the rural district Uch-Korgon of Kadamdzhai district. When descending into the mine, the rope broke off, and the man fell from a height of 15 meters. The Ministry of Emergency Situations confirmed the information, adding that the body had been taken out by…
DetailsThe authorities of the Zabaikalye region want to allow individual gold extraction to increase alluvial gold output from 10 to 20 kg. The relevant amendments to the various bills have already been prepared and sent to the State Duma. Individual gold extraction has been prohibited in Russia since 1954. In 1990s the authorities of the…
DetailsKazakhaltyn Technology LLC has commissioned the gold-extracting factory at the Aksu mine. At first it is planned to obtain up to 4 tons of gold and 2 tons of silver a year. Investments totaled 30.585 billion tenge. By the end of the year Kazakhaltyn intends to have commissioned two more factories at the Zholymbet and…
DetailsIn January-October TALCO aluminum output decreased by 23% YoY, to 85.6 thousand tons valued at 330.4 million somoni. According to the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies, in January-October 2017 output was 110 thousand tons. This year the company has processed over 6.8 thousand tons of aluminum, up by 1.6 thousand tons YoY. In 10…
DetailsEvraz ZSMK has obtained the TSI certificate for the 54E4 and 49E5 European standard sections. The certificate allows the company to supply such rails to Europe to be used on high-speed and ordinary railroads. The company has also confirmed the TSI certificate correspondence for the 60E1 and 60E2 European sections. “The manufacture of 54E4 and…
DetailsCherepovets Iron and Steel Works has finished the repairs of the blast furnace No. 2. The cost of the repair exceeded 40 million rubles. The repair lasted for 18 days. All the parts of the new machinery were of local-make. One of the largest parts – the base of the furnace weighing 15 tons –…
DetailsThe copper-smelting shop of Uralelectromed has started assembling the new crane to load charge into the anode furnaces. The cost of the machinery together with assembly will reach some 20 million rubles. This is the second crane manufactured by the Naberezhniye Chelny Crane Works, made to order. The first one has been working for a…
DetailsKyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant will assemble a new complex on MAERZ furnace gas purifying valued at 200 million rubles.
Purification will reach 99%, and the total square of filtration will be 4.5 thousand square meters.
The new gas-purifying equipment will be commissioned in H2 2018. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-November Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine produced 1.095 million tons of rolled metal, down by 37.7% YoY. According to a company representative, steel output dropped by 35.9%, to 1.128 million tons, pig iron – by 37.8%, to 1.087 million tons. In November DMK produced 225 thousand tons of rolled metal, 237 thousand tons of…
DetailsIn 2017 Corum Druzhkovka Machine-building Works increased output by 122% YoY. According to the company statement, the expected volume of products manufactured this year will be 757 million UAH. Loading of the company capacities this year has increased by almost a quarter, to 123%. In 11 months the works received 353 orders for the manufacture…
DetailsPJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih continues to resettle the residents from the area of possible displacement of the earth surface in the Saksaganskiy district of Kriviy Rih and is ready to purchase every household located in the streets Lavrenyova and Chistopolskaya (“Zhukovka settlement”), at the price of 425 thousand hryvnia providing the conclusion of the sales…
DetailsIzhorsky Pipe Works, a part of Severstal, has supplied over 42 thousand tons of 1420 mm diameter pipes of K60 steel for the construction of the Sila Sibiri (Power of Siberia) gas pipelines. Such pipes can withstand increased deformations and remain stable under active seismic influence. The first batch of pipes was shipped to the…
DetailsEnergoprom, a part of Renova and the only producer of graphitized electrodes in Russia, will help metal makers. In 2018 it will increase UHP and SHP electrodes output by one third, to 39.4 thousand tons and will sell around half of the products to metal makers with a 20-30% discount under long-term contracts. In autumn…
DetailsKazakhstan’s companies specializing in geological exploration are ready to work in Uzbekistan, the general director of the Kazakh-Australian company “Aurora Minerals Group” Kaisar Kozhamuratov said at the 10th international conference “Uzgeoinvest-2017”. “Uzbekistan has always been interesting for us from the point of view of geological exploration, since there are a lot of large deposits here.…
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