Beloretsk Iron and Steel Works has presented a project on the acid-free wire manufacture. The company has shut down the etching department of its wire shop, reconstructed the drawing mills and put into operation new water purifying machinery. Instead of the etching lines, two foreign descaling lines have been commissioned. All this allowed the company…
DetailsSeverstal will install a new supporting roll at the 5000-mill in the sheet-rolling shop of the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works in Kolpino. The roll has already been delivered to the site. Soon the shop specialists will assemble it. The roll with the diameter of 2.3 meters, the length of 11 meters and the weight…
DetailsIn May Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works decreased concentrate output by 0.2% YoY, to 1.042 million tons. According to the company statement, sinter manufactured dropped by 0.9%, to 151.6 thousand tons. In January-May UGOK produced 5054.2 thousand tons of concentrate and 806.5 thousand tons of sinter, down by 0.6%, but up by 8.6% YoY respectively.…
DetailsRussia’s aluminum exports decreased by 43.1% MoM, to 172,000 tons in April, the Federal Customs Service said on June 6. In monetary terms, aluminum exports fell by 45.6%, to $325.9 million. In January-April exports rose by 15.7% YoY, to 1.013 million tons in volume terms, but dropped by 41.9%, to $1.952 billion in monetary terms.…
DetailsThe Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan, Mukhammedkaly Abylgaziev, instructed to speed up preparations for the contest and conduct outreach activities among the local population on the importance of extending the term of Makmal gold field, the press service of the Cabinet reported. The head of government held a working meeting to discuss the current activities of…
DetailsIrshansk Mining and Processing Works has ordered Star-car LLC a car valued at 1.25 million UAH.
The company will supply Toyota Highlander (Elegance).
Star-car received the order without competition.
The expected price was 1.3 million UAH. (Ukrainian metal)
The flooding of the mines on Ukraine-uncontrolled part of Donbass gradually results in the same processes in mines that are situated on the controlled territory. “For example, the volume of water that floods the Zolotaya mine (controlled territory) is 940 tons per hour”, the deputy minister on temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons Georgy…
DetailsTorex, owner of Amurstal, and Posco Daewoo Corporation have signed a memorandum on deliveries. By the end of the year Amurstal will have additionally exported 300 thousand tons of steel billets to South Korea. South-Eastern Asia countries account for 60% of the company sales, with 40% supplied to the domestic market. The company employs 3…
DetailsIn January-May Russia mined 176.17 million tons of coal, up by 5.5% YoY. SUEK companies contributed 47.25 million tons, up by 1.8%. Kuzbassrazrezugol mined 17.78 million tons, down by 5.5%. It is followed by SDS-Ugol with 10.82 million tons, up by 6.2%. Vostsibugol extracted 6.13 million tons, up by 11.7%. In 5 months Russia exported…
DetailsFerrexpo believes the Belanovsky Mining and Processing Works will reach its full capacity (20-30 million tons per year) not earlier than in 2023. According to the company investors and communications manager Ingrid McMahon, the GOK has already started mining ore. At the same time, full capacity might be reached much later, as everything depends on…
DetailsThe European Commission has stopped the antidumping investigation of the imports of ferrosilicon with Ukrainian origin.
Following the investigation, Ukrainian products will not be affected by antidumping duties on the EU market.
In 2017 Ukraine exported $54.7 million worth of ferrosilicon to EU, up by $17.8 million YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
Ferrexpo is minimizing pellets sales on the markets of the Eastern Europe, at the same time increasing deliveries to constant buyers of premium products in Germany and Austria, South Korea and Japan. “We are not leaving the markets of the Eastern Europe, but we are gradually decreasing exports there, re-orienting on our main customers, in…
DetailsRussia marked Environment Day on June 5 – an important date for Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), as the company annually invests billions of rubles in environmental activities. Employees of MMK’s environmental laboratory, created three decades ago, celebrated their professional holiday. Ongoing reduction of the plant’s environmental impact and adoption of the best available…
DetailsNLMK Group, a global steel company, has won the “Ecological culture. Peace and Harmony” international competition, held by the Vernadsky Non-governmental Ecological Foundation. NLMK Group’s “Steel Tree” volunteer program came first in the “Social initiatives aimed at promoting an ecological culture” category. The competition was established in 2012. It promotes successful corporate and private initiatives…
DetailsMajor reconstruction of production facilities in 2018-2022 makes it possible for PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih to significantly reduce environmental footprint. During last 12 years, from 2006 to 2017, 5.6 billion UAH was invested in environment, which makes 12% of total investments in this period. In May a complex of new coke oven batteries Nos. 5…
DetailsThe prices of main precious metals increased in Azerbaijan on June 6, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold increased by 8.8145 manats, to 2,204.6705 manats per ounce compared to the price on June 5. The cost of silver increased by 0.1829 manats, to 28.0822 manats per ounce. The…
DetailsChina National Gold Group and SUN Gold Ltd (India) intend to attract some $500 million of investments in 2 years to develop gold extracting at the Klyuchevskoye deposits in Zabaikalye region. The expected volume of output is 12 million tons of ore per year with the production of 6.5 tons of gold. If the regional…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has mastered the manufacture of a special angle for the market of the United Arab Emirates. “This exclusive angle with the dimensions of 38x38x5 mm was produced on the MS250-2 mill of the bar-rolling shop No. 1. Our specialists have created all the necessary equipment for the manufacture of the angle”, the…
DetailsFollowing the results of the “Best exporter of 2017” competition, held by the Belarus Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Belarus Iron and Steel Works has been named the leader in the Metallurgy nomination. This is the fourth BMZ victory in a row: the company was awarded the “Best exporter” title in 2014, 2015 and 2016.…
DetailsIn January-April Armenian metal industry showed decrease of 14.4% against the growth of 9.4% in January-April 2017. According to the National Statistics Service, ferromolybdenum output dropped by 34.5% YoY, to 2439 tons. In April Armenia produced 545 tons of ferromolybdenum, down by 45.3% MoM. Molybdenum concentrate manufacture grew by 1% YoY, to 3964 tons, with…
DetailsPervouralsky Pipe Works has replaced bag filters of the gas-purifying equipment.
The cost of the project was 20 million rubles.
The filter replacement will decrease dust emission and minimize the manufacture impact on the environment.
According to the company managing director Alexei Dronov, this year environment projects budget has been increased by 20%. (Ukrainian metal)
Ingulets Mining and Processing Works has repaired the electric locomotive OPE1-AM No. 33. According to the company CEO Alexander Gerasimchuk, the locomotive was repaired at the Tbilisi Locomotive-building Pant (Georgia). Now the engineers are assembling the roof equipment. Soon the locomotive will resume operation. “This will allow us not only to increase the rock transportation…
DetailsThe state enterprise Lvivugol has ordered Lviv Coal Company coal processing valued at 119.05 million UAH. The purchase was conducted via the negotiations procedure, as the previous two attempts through auctions failed because of the lack of participants. Cancelled purchases presupposed the purchase of processing of 878 thousand tons of coal at 83.43 million UAH,…
DetailsThe prices of enterprises manufacturing industrial products, as well as providing production services, in Kazakhstan increased by 2.6% MoM in May and by 5% compared to December 2017, the Committee on Statistics of the Kazakh National Economy Ministry reported. Since the beginning of the year, producer prices in the manufacturing industry have increased by 3.5%…
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