Poltava Mining and Processing Works will invest $34 million in the construction of a covered warehouse for iron ore concentrate. The company has already finished earth and foundation works and has almost completed the assembly of metal structures and equipment. The construction presupposes the use of 7.5 thousand tons of metal structures. The warehouse will…
DetailsEarly on May 13, because of the high wind a hanging stage broke off in the converter shop of Azovstal. One employee died as a result of the fall, while another damaged his legs. The perished employee was born in 1974 and lived in Mariupol. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn January-March, Metinvest Zaporozhye plants – Zaporizhstal, Zaporozhogneupor, Zaporozhkoks and Zaporozhye Foundry-Mechanical Works – paid over 700 million UAH of taxes to the budgets of all levels. In particular, Zaporozhye city and regional budgets received some 202 million UAH, down by 0.9% YoY. Earlier, the Metinvest Group waved tax holidays, provided by the state due…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has suspended operation of the blooming shop site No. 1. Under the strategy of sustainable development, the company is waving outdated techniques. The blooming-1 started operating in 1958. Some years later the site No. 2 was commissioned. In 2015, both sites were merged into one shop. So far the shop has produced…
DetailsIn January-April, Ukraine procured 958.3 thousand tons of scrap, down by 10.2% YoY. Deliveries to metal companies dropped by 8.7%, to 901.1 thousand tons. Exports decreased by 59.1%, to 11.6 thousand tons, and imports – by 74.6%, to 5.7 thousand tons. This year scrap export is expected to increase by 22.2%, to 50 thousand tons,…
DetailsIn January-April, Irkutsk region extracted 5274.6 kg of gold, including 5041.6 kg of ore gold and 233 kg of alluvial gold. Output grew by 14% YoY. Polyus Verninskoye produced 2665.9 kg of gold, while Vysochaishiy and its daughter company Ugakhan LLC – 1285.4 and 777.4 kg of gold respectively. Druza LLC extracted 312.9 kg of…
DetailsIn January-April, Amur region extracted 5411.3 kg of gold, up by 1.2% YoY. Ore gold accounted for 5321.3 kg, and alluvial output totaled 90 kg. Traditionally, Petropavlovsk enterprises have provided the largest volume of gold output: Malomyr (1520 kg, down by 22%), Pokrovsky Mine LLC (1202 kg, up by 27%) and Albynsky Mine LLC (1169…
DetailsIn 2020 Ukrainian metal companies, according to an updated forecast will decrease steel output by 4.1% YoY (20.848 million tons), to 20 million tons, and by 7% from the initial forecast (21.5 million tons). For this, metal companies will receive 2.7 million tons of ferrous metals scrap, down by 10.3% YoY (3.011 million tons). Scrap…
DetailsIn April, Ukraine exported $630.5 million worth of ferrous metals, down by 17.5% YoY. According to the customs statistics, in 4 months exports revenue decreased by 15.5% YoY, to $2.7 billion. The share of ferrous metals in foreign currency revenue dropped to 16.7% from 19.4% last year. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn April, Ukraine exported 304.9 thousand tons of pig iron valued at $89.2 million, up by 33.4% and by 18% YoY respectively. According to the State Customs Service, in 4 months exports grew by 11.9%, to 960.2 thousand tons valued at $286 million, up by 1.7%. The main customers were the USA (58%, up by…
DetailsPolska Grupa Gornicza (PGG) has received 127 sections of the ZRP 15/35 anchoring from Corum Group ahead of schedule. This is the third set of anchoring supplied to the Polish market. The anchoring will be used at the Wesola mine. Since 2018, Corum Group has supplied over 400 anchoring sections to PGG mines. Initially the…
DetailsAktyubinsk Rail and Beam Works intends to supply R65 railroad rails to Ukraine. The company has mastered the manufacture of rails according to DSTU 4344:2004 and received a certificate of correspondence necessary to start supplying rails to Ukraine. The certificate is valid until March 22, 2022. ARBZ design capacity is 430 thousand tons per year:…
DetailsUkrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) has prepared 60 thousand tons of ferrous metals scrap to be sold on ProZorro auctions. The enterprise is now selecting a company to evaluate the scrap. The sales could start in late May – early June. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn April, metal companies received 220.6 thousand tons of scrap, up by 13.1% from the target (195 thousand tons). The largest scrap volumes were delivered to Azovstal (41.2 thousand tons), Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works (35.7 thousand tons), Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine (42.9 thousand tons), Zaporizhstal (16.44 thousand tons) and Interpipe Steel (44.6…
DetailsIn January-March, Ukraine decreased pipes output by 25.4% YoY, to 211.7 thousand tons. The enterprises of the Ukrtruboprom association decreased output by 35.2%. Interpipe-NTZ produced 43.9 thousand tons, down by 30.3% (18.1 thousand tons in March), Interpipe NMTZ – 18.5 thousand tons (-38.3%, 6.8 thousand tons) and Interpipe Niko Tube – 68.1 thousand tons (-33.9%,…
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