For Ukrainian TPPs to be able to work in normal mode during the winter season they need enough energy-generating coal. That is why DTEL Pavlogradugol has increased mining output at all of its mine groups in Q3 by 21%. Ternovskoye Mine Group yielded 1 million tons of coal, up by 27% QoQ, Pershotravenskoye – 1…
DetailsUral Mining-Metallurgical Company has announced the merger of Electrocabel works and Kolchugino Non-Ferrous Metals Works. After all the legal procedures Kolchugtsvetmet will be managed by Cable Alliance, Electrocabel being a part of which. This decision was taken in view of the expansion of the cable business and the realization of the global program of Electrocabel…
DetailsIn January-September Russia increased raw zinc output by 3.3% YoY.
According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in September raw zinc output dropped by 6.3% YoY and by 14.5% MoM. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-September KAZ Minerals produced 97.1 thousand tons of copper (in cathodes), up by 66% YoY. In Q3 the company produced 44.5 thousand tons of copper cathodes, up by 43% QoQ. KAZ Minerals increases output volumes at its Bozshakol and Aktogay works, which will allow it to reach the target of 135-145 thousand tons of…
DetailsIn January-September Bratsk Ferroalloys Works (a part of Mechel) produced over 23 thousand tons of FS-75 ferrosilicon, up by 80% YoY. This ferrosilicon is used in the production of electric steels, as well as springs, construction and car parts. The increase was the result of the improvement of the world market situation. The company exports…
DetailsSince the beginning of the year Azertexnolayn has supplied 47 million manats worth of pipes to Turkmenistan. In January the company signed an agreement to supply $40 million worth of pile pipes for the construction of Turkmenbashi seaport. Another $20 million contract presupposes the delivery of pipes for water pipelines. The company is able to…
DetailsMechel-Service has sold 20 million tons of metal since it has been created. Mechel-Service was founded in 2005 in Chelyabinsk, where its main supplier – Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works – is situated. Now the company offices are present in all the federal districts of Russia, with 57 warehouses in 42 cities. Having started with…
DetailsSince the year start over 300 thousand square meters of buildings have been constructed using the metal structures produced by Severstal Stalnie Resheniya. Over 2700 tons of metal structures have been produced and supplied for the construction of a tire-producing plant in Ulyanovsk. The construction ended in September. Some 450 tons of metal structures have…
DetailsNovolipetsk Iron and Steel Works has successfully finished the project of replacing cold-rolled metal thermal treating equipment. 15 new stands of bell furnaces have been put into operation. The new equipment will increase cold-rolled metal with increased finishing quality output by 30%, and that with the highest quality – 4-fold. Fuel usage at the new…
DetailsThe assets of the bankrupt Aluminum Casting Works (Altai) have been put on sale once again for 504.47 million rubles, down by 16%. The auction will be held on November 28. The previous sale at 600 million rubles was canceled due to the absence of offers. The company, created in 1992, was named bankrupt in…
DetailsKurilgeo, the sole gold miner in Sakhalin region, plans to mine 1.6 tons of gold at its Urup island deposits. “In January-September we mined 1.2 tons of gold and 3.5 tons of silver, receiving 1.18 tons of gold and 3.42 tons of silver. Our plan is to receive 1.6 tons of gold this year”, a…
DetailsViktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik, for $700 million. Vekselberg earlier reported that his company wanted to increase the stake in RUSAL because it saw a high potential in the asset. According to one of the sources, the deal can be closed by the end of November. The money to pay for the stake will be…
DetailsAzovstal Iron and Steel Works has received the pilot tank with pulverized coal fuel. At the same time the PCI machine is being constructed there at the blast furnace No. 4. The Metinvest investments into the major project total $17 million. The fuel was delivered from the Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works in the…
DetailsOn behalf of the Military prosecutors of the South region the General prosecutor’s office has addressed the Ministry of economic development and trade asking it to punish Ukrainian Chemical Products (ex-Crimean Titan) by stopping its economical activities. The prosecutors said, that despite the ban to trade with Crimea, in 2015-2016 the company supplied raw materials…
DetailsOn October 26, the chairman of the Volyn regional state administration Vladimir Gunchik had a phone conversation with the minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik on the Volynugol situation, Novovolynskaya mine No. 10 construction and salary debts to miners. The parties have reached the agreement that by the end of the week 100%…
DetailsMoscow has put a 100% stake of the Moscow Pipe Works valued at 1.58 billion rubles up for an auction. According to the auction documents, the company assets include 25 buildings with the floor square of 107.6 thousand square meters. Of them over 19 thousand square meters have been leased. The assets also include 10…
DetailsVolzhsky Pipe Works (a part of TMK) has put its continuous-casting machine No. 2 at the arc-furnace shop into operation after an overhaul. The halt of the machine didn’t affect steel smelting process, as it was carried out at other machines according to the plan. The arc-furnace shop of VTZ produces square (240×240, 300×300 and…
DetailsSeverstal has named the recent increase in coking coal prices unjustified and hopes for their decrease in the next 2 months, as the future steel profits will face higher coke expenses. According to the company, the main reasons for the coal price increase were the decrease in working hours at Chinese mines and the breaches…
DetailsIn January-September Russian Copper Company produced 132694 tons of copper cathodes, up from 103726 in January-September 2015. In particular, Kyshtym Copper-Electrolyte Works in August produced 7504.414 tons of copper cathodes in shop No. 1 and 3496.062 tons in shop No. 2 (11000.476 tons in total). This has led to the increase of the works targets…
DetailsRussian aluminum giant UC RUSAL has filed a suit to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) demanding Ukraine to redeem the company’s investment in Zaporozhye Aluminum Complex, a RUSAL representative reported. “Affiliates of RUSAL have turned to the ICSID with a request to compensate for the investment in Zaporozhye Aluminum Works. The…
DetailsIn connection with being shifted to the tolling system, the Tajik Aluminum Company (TALCO) has been faced with unfavorable financial situation and the company is currently losing $100.00 from production of each ton of the tolling aluminum, says a report by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) on TALCO’s activities in 2010-2015 and the first half of…
DetailsIn September Zaporizhstal decreased gas consumption to 10 million cubic meters per month. According to the company statement, annual gas consumption was halved. In 2012 the works consumed 331 million cubic meters of natural gas, 236 million in 2013, 221 million in 2014 and 205 million cubic meters in 2015. This year Zaporizhstal gas consumption…
DetailsMetinvest intends to develop its sales network in Europe to be closer to European consumers. According to Metinvest Western Europe sales director Roberto Re, the group has four works in Europe: two in Italy, one in Bulgaria and one in UK, as well as a network of 13 offices. “Our companies in EU always stock…
DetailsThe minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik plans to increase uranium mining by attracting private investments and foreign companies into the industry. This will make Ukraine more energy-independent. Westinghouse and some other companies are interested in mining Ukrainian uranium, according to the minister. At present Ukraine provides its NPPs with only 30-35% of…
DetailsFor the past 6 years electricity debts of Tajikistan Aluminum Company valued at 261.6 million somoni have been written off. Even though the company receives electricity at low tariffs. Because of the untimely payment for electricity in H1 TALCO’s debts reached 468.4 million somoni. The company consumes some 30% of Tajikistan-produced electricity every year. In…
DetailsIn January-September Russian raw nickel output dropped by 13.1% YoY.
According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in September raw nickel output decreased by 31% YoY and by 18.1% MoM. (Ukrainian metal)