In 2017 ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih considerably decreased energy consumption. In particular, total power intensity was 25.231 gigajoule per 1 ton of liquid steel. This year the total energy consumption is planned on the level of 25.195 gigajoule per ton. Last year the company achieved the historical lows of electricity consumption – 4.194 billion kW-h and…
DetailsIgor Lushankin has become the new director of Severstal Distribution LLC. He has been working for 17 years as the commercial director of Midland Resources, being responsible for Zaporizhstal exports. “For the past five years he has been working in the sphere of rolled metal and raw materials supplies both to Ukrainian companies, and to…
DetailsThe public joints stock company Koks has attracted a VTB loan of 10 billion rubles. According to the company statement, the term of the loan is 7 years. The interest rate will be set depending on the term. The maximum volume of the interest rate should not exceed 20%. Koks is controlled by the Industrial-Metallurgical…
DetailsA new mini-power plant has been put into operation at the Uralelectromed enterprise – Proizvodstvo Splavov Tsvetnykh Metallov. Its capacity is 2.4 MW of electricity or 9.2 Gcal-h of hearing energy. The size of the premises is 450 square meters. Commissioning took several months. At first, by the start of the heating season, a boiler…
DetailsMajor metal companies believe that the favorable trends of 2017 will persist this year as well. Last year Russia produced 71.3 million tons of steel, up by 2.4% YoY. Rolled metal output grew slightly – by 0.7%, to 60.9 million tons. Pig iron manufacture grew even less – by 0.55%, to 52.2 million tons. It…
DetailsFor the past 10 years Severstal has decreased the volume of industrial wastes at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works by 58%. The decrease has to do with the sale of secondary products. This helps decrease the volume of industrial wastes, accumulated at the landfill. At present the company sells over 20 types of wastes. Last…
DetailsNovosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, a unit of the Russian nuclear fuel producer TVEL, exported more than 300 kilograms of metal uranium to France in 2017, Alexander Yevseyev, the plant’s director for production, said on February 13. “This is the first delivery within a large contract. The client was satisfied, and we will continue cooperation,” he…
DetailsThe mining of lead and zinc ores at the Pavlovskoye deposits in Novaya Zemlya is expected to begin in 2023. According to the Arkhangelsk region governor Igor Orlov, prospecting in the area was completed in 2017. The State commission on natural resources believes that the reserves of the Novaya Zemlya are over 47 million tons…
DetailsIn January Kimkano-Sutarsky Mining and Processing Works LLC produced 180 thousand tons of iron ore concentrate. Last year the company produced 2 million tons of iron ore concentrate and this year expects to increase output to 3.2 million tons. KSGOK is a part of IRC ltd. It was created on the basis of Kimkanskoye and…
DetailsIn 2017 Tajikistan set a new record in gold mining – 5.5 tons, up by 11.2% YoY. All the metal produced was purchased by the National Bank of Tajikistan. In 2016 the bank bought 4 tons of gold. This year gold output is expected to grow by 20% YoY, to 6.6 tons. In the past…
DetailsAs of February 1 Magadan region mined 1317.4 kg of gold and 51.6 tons of silver. According to the regional ministry of natural resources, gold output grew by 41.5% YoY, or by 386.6 kg. At the same time silver mining decreased by 14.6%, or by 8.8 tons. The decrease has to do with the scheduled…
DetailsSayanogorsk and Khakassk Aluminum Works of Rusal in 2017 produced 824 thousand tons of aluminum. Aluminum alloys output grew by 12% YoY, to 474 thousand tons. The increase in output was the result of a complex modernization work. “Aluminum alloys are products with high added value, thus the increase of their output is one of…
DetailsIn 2017 Izhstal increased stainless steel output by 11% YoY. According to the company press-service, stainless steel manufacture reached 17.4 thousand tons. Over 35% of this was produced by the continuous casting machine. In 2016 its share was 20%. All in all the works mastered the manufacture of over 1.8 thousand steel grades, including 300…
DetailsPJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel, the largest producer of palladium and refined nickel in the world, and LLC Russian Platinum have signed a framework agreement on strategic partnership. According to the agreement, the parties will establish a joint venture to develop disseminated ore deposits in the Norilsk Industrial District. The JV will be 50%-owned by Nornickel…
DetailsRUSAL intends to complete the development of a feasibility study in 2018 for the construction of a scandium oxide production unit at one of its Russian operations. Such a development adds to the company completing another series of pilot-scale tests in 2017 to recover scandium oxide from red mud on its new unit constructed at…
DetailsIn January Beloretsk Iron and Steel Works increased shipping of metal wares by 4% YoY, to 37.6 thousand tons. Welding wire for the manufacture of electrodes and low-carbon wire for ferroconcrete structures showed the most increase – by 64% and by 53% respectively. Wire nails sales grew by 48%. Welding alloyed wire sales increased by…
DetailsAt a meeting held on February 13, NLMK’s Board of Directors considered the nomination for the position of the company president (CEO) (Chairman of the Management Board) submitted by its majority shareholder. Grigory Fedorishin, who currently holds the position of Senior Vice President of NLMK, was approved as the top candidate to be voted on…
DetailsRussia’s gold output increased by 6.4% YoY, to 306.9 tons in 2017, the Finance Ministry said in a statement on February 13 with data on supplies of the metal to gold refining plants. Mined gold output rose by 6.8%, to 253.9 tons, by-product gold output increased by 7.2%, to 16.4 tons, and gold scrap production…
DetailsIn 2017 DTEK decreased coal output by 11.3%, to 27.706 million tons. According to the company statement, the decrease has to do with the loss of control over mines on the non-controlled territory in March 2017. This resulted in anthracite output drop by 52.5%, to 4.791 million tons. At the same time gas-generating coal production…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has received an order from Voestalpine Stahl GmbH. According to the agreement, EMSS will produce and supply two supporting rolls for the cold- and hot-rolling mills to Austria. The total weight of the rolls is 72.32 tons. The delivery of the rolls is scheduled for Q4. The companies have been cooperating since 2010. (Ukrainian…
DetailsAccording to the customs statistics, in 2017 Russia decreased ferrous metals exports by 2.2% YoY, to 42.4 million tons, valued at $18.76 billion, up by 33%. The share of metal exports to far foreign countries grew to 10.2% from 9.8%. Export volumes dropped by 2%, but increased by 28.8% money-wise. Aluminum exports decreased by 4.3%,…
DetailsIn 2017 companies developing metallic deposits invested $235 million in the operation.
In the next 3 years some 3 billion drams more will be invested in the field.
Metallic output last year increased by 30% YoY, mostly because of the growth of world ore prices. (Ukrainian metal)
The prospecting of copper ore deposits on the Novopetrovskoye field in the Republic of Bashkortostan is complete. According to the inspection, the deposits have the reserves of 387 thousand tons of R1 copper with the average content of 1.44%, 151 thousand tons of R2 copper (1.28%), 638 thousand tons of R1 zinc (2.37%) and 268…
DetailsThe Bryansk region is carrying out its project to produce tungsten and molybdenum powder. The Unecha Works of Refractory Metals LLC intends in 4 years to start producing molybdenum fillets, artificial sheelite and tungsten oxide. The construction of the works in the region started in 2007. The first stage with the capacity of 500 tons…
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