Mikhail Spektor has been appointed the president of Black Iron to speed up the implementation of iron ore extraction and processing project in Ukraine. According to the company statement, up till September 2015, he has been the president of the VS Energy. Spektor will be responsible for obtaining all the necessary permits from the government…
DetailsFinancial results of the Severstal Group cannot be considered satisfactory, Severstal CEO Alexander Shevelyov said. “If we analyze the results we will see that Severstal, unfortunately, has shown the worst dynamics among metal companies in Russia. We have increase profit from sales compared with 2015, but it is considerably low than that of NLMK or…
DetailsMagnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works has announced that board of directors held a meeting on February 10. The board has approved May 26, as the date for the annual general meeting of shareholders (AGM) of the company. The cut-off date for inclusion in the shareholder register for the AGM is May 2, at the close…
DetailsRussian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Group is preparing to sell part of a 17.02% stake in aluminum giant UC RUSAL on the market, Bloomberg reported citing sources familiar with the situation. Earlier Bloomberg reported citing sources that RUSAL was considering selling up to 20% of its new shares in London. The company sees good possibilities…
DetailsThe licenses of two gold mining companies in Kyrgyzstan were suspended, the State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use reported. The license of «Aksyaltyn Gold» LLC, which produces placer gold in Chon-Alai district of Osh region, and the license of «Andash Mining Company» LLC, mining gold in Talas region, were suspended. Licenses of other…
DetailsMariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works decided to decrease output because of the blockade of the railroad to the uncontrolled territories. “The stable transport connection is part and parcel of the functioning of our enterprises. Our raw material stocks are dwindling. We even have to make a decision to decrease output. Without the operation of…
DetailsDarnitsa Car-repairing Plant, a part of Ukrzaliznytsia, has announced 22 tenders to buy wheels valued at 248.14 million UAH. Interpipe is winning at six of them. Two large orders (127.29 million UAH and 50.92 million UAH) were announced separately with the publication in English. Other 20 orders cover 69.93 million UAH. 5 of them have…
DetailsKrasnoarmeyskugol has decided to order personal protection units valued at 2.72 million UAH from Donenergoexport LLC. The previous two tenders have been cancelled due to the lack of participants. The enterprise intends to order 2600 breathing masks and 190 thousand filter elements at unknown price. In January mine named after Surgay ordered the same products…
DetailsInterpipe has supplied 3 thousand railroad wheels to the Saudi Railways Organization. According to the company statement, the total number of the KLW brand wheels to be delivered is 14 thousand units. Interpipe will produce and supply 3 types of wheels for railroad cars and locomotives with 838, 920 and 1046 mm diameter. The company…
DetailsMetinvest mining and metal company in January paid $2.747 million of interest under the eurobonds due in 2016-2018 being restructured. According to a report on the Irish Stock Exchange, the amount is equal to 30% of accrued and unpaid interest under the notes from and including December 31, 2016 up to but excluding January 31,…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal will produce a batch of rolls for Evraz-DMZ. The contract for delivery was concluded in January. According to the agreement EMSS will produce 14 working rolls with the total weight of 175.3 tons. The rolls will be used at the rolling mill of Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works. After mechanical and thermal treatment rolls…
DetailsIn January one of the leading gold-miners of Irkutsk region – Druza – mined 56.3 kg of gold. At present gold is mined only at the Nevskoye deposits. Operation at other deposits will commence in March. In 2017 the company plans to keep the last year levels of output. In 2016 Druza mined 1130 kg…
DetailsVSMPO-Avisma has put a new homogenizing furnace into operation.
This is the fifth machine to be constructed in shop No. 1.
The furnace was designed, constructed, assembled and put into operation by the company specialists.
The homogenizing or the artificial ageing improves the metal structure. (Ukrainian metal)
Ukraine has enough resources to stop using the anthracite coal delivered from Donbass in case the corresponding political decision is taken. “If a political decision is taken and on the governmental level we are told to block and not exchange goods anymore, Ukraine has enough resources to completely stop buying the anthracite coal”, energy and…
DetailsIn 2017 Koks-Mining enterprises intend to increase coal output by 23%, to 2.7 million tons from 2.2 million tons in 2015. According to the company CEO Victor Shevtsov, output could grow even more – to 2.9-3 million tons, as this spring the company plans to greatly increase its mining capacities by putting into operation the…
DetailsChelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works, a part of Mechel, has finished the scheduled capital repairs of its quality and stainless steel producing complex. The repairs cost around 20 million rubles. All the three mills of the complex were repaired. The main mill – the continuous cast machine No. 2 – saw the largest volume of…
DetailsIn 2017 the Kimkano-Sutar Mining and Processing Works will bring around 300 million rubles of taxes to the budget of the Jewish Autonomous District, the regional governor Alexander Levintal announced. By mid-2017 it is planned to put the works to full operation. According to the company CEO Yuri Makarov, in December 2016 the works produced…
DetailsThe management of the United Mining and Chemical Company was prepared to privatize the company in its favor. “The accusations of the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine of the blocking of the UMCC activities and the breakup of privatization are contrary to the fact and draw the attention away from the real situation at UMCC”,…
DetailsOn February 5-8, the anthracite coal stocks at Ukraine’s thermal power plants increased by 18 thousand tons, or by 2%, to 876 thousand tons. According to the national power-generating company Ukrenergo, as of late February 5, there was 1609 thousand tons of coal at the warehouses, including 858 thousand tons of anthracite, with 186 thousand…
DetailsRussian aluminum giant UC Rusal is considering selling up to 20% of new shares in London, Bloomberg reported citing two sources familiar with the situation. The company sees good possibilities for the sale of new shares in London after the price of its shares increased and is currently holding talks with several banks, the sources…
DetailsGold mining company Nordgold, controlled by Russian businessman Alexei Mordashov, may acquire global depositary receipts (GDRs) from minority shareholders for $118 million with own funds in the framework of a planned delisting from the London Stock Exchange (LSE), CEO Nikolai Zelensky said. Earlier Nordgold confirmed its LSE delisting plans and said it had offered to…
DetailsTransnet Engineering LTD from the South African Republic is interested in buying steel in Ukraine. “According to the Ukrainian embassy in SAR, the company is looking for suppliers of steel to be used in the manufacture of 3200 containers for the coal transportation”, the Ministry of economic development and trade reported. It should be noted…
DetailsIn 2016 Ukraine exported 37.7 million tons of iron ore raw materials, down by 7.8 million tons YoY. According to the state enterprise Ukrpromvneshexpertisa, the largest drop in exports was to China – by 9.6 million tons. This market is the farthest and the less competitive for Ukrainian suppliers. On the other hand, Serbia and…
DetailsIn January Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works, a part of Metinvest, produced 173 thousand tons of rolled metal, down by 1.1% YoY. Steel output increased by 15.2%, to 189 thousand tons, of pig iron – by 9%, to 173 thousand tons. In December 2016 the company produced 160 thousand tons of rolled metal, 154 thousand…
DetailsNovolipetsk Iron and Steel Works has started testing three dust extraction systems in its sinter shop, which produces 15 million tons of raw materials for pig iron manufacture annually. The project will decrease dust emission by the sintering factory by 3.3% and will enable the company to use the dust in the manufacturing process. Dust…
DetailsChelyabinsk Pipe Plant (ChelPipe) has announces the successful conclusion of book-building for the company’s second issue of exchange-traded bonds (BO series 001P-02) in a total nominal volume of 5 billion rubles, placed under the program. The exchange-traded bonds are structured according to the classical scheme with a 182-day coupon period and bullet repayment at the…
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