In 2017 Marganets Mining and Processing Works received 811.254 million UAH of net profit, as opposed to 882.735 million UAH of net losses in 2016. Undistributed profit last year totaled 575.906 million UAH. The company current liabilities decreased by 14.4%, to 1142.244 million UAH, and fixed liabilities – by 36.7%, to 353.212 million UAH. At…
DetailsIn 2017 Chelyabinsk Pipe Works received 1.058 billion rubles of net profits, down 4-fold YoY. ChTPZ consolidated profit totaled 4.032 billion rubles, down by 37%. In Q4 2017 the works received 1.884 billion rubles of net profit, up from 39 million rubles in Q3. Revenue grew by 52%, to 37.4 billion rubles. In 2017 ChTPZ…
DetailsIn 2017 consumption of aluminum in Russia increased by 11% YoY, and the trend is expected to continue in 2018 as well. In 2015 consumption fell by 9%, while in 2016 grew by 4%. This year it is expected to grow by 9%, in 2019 – by 13% and in 2020 – by 11%. In…
DetailsChTPZ has carried out rebranding of its pipes with premium thread joints. Now on the Russian market these products will be represented under a combined name of ChTPZ Prime, and on the foreign market – Chelpipe Prime. “The rebranding is a part of the company strategy to develop and promote new types of products. Under…
DetailsIn January Ukraine supplied 121 thousand tons of pig iron to Russia, up from 72.8 thousand tons in December 2017. Exports began in November 2017 and in 3 months reached 212.5 thousand tons. Some 65% of exports went to the Rostov region, and the rest – to the Stavropol region. Average price on the Russian…
DetailsIn January Russia exported 1.18 million tons of semi-finished steel products, up by 2.4% YoY, but down by 13.8% MoM. According to the customs statistics, revenue grew by 28.2% YoY, but dropped by 10.5% MoM, to $569 million. The main destination of Russian slabs and billets export in January was Taiwan, which accounted for 18.5%.…
DetailsIn 2017 DTEK Pavlogradugol, the largest coal miner in Ukraine, increased its net profit by 6.9% YoY, or by 44.68 million UAH, to 691.83 million UAH. According to the company statement, shareholders decided not to distribute the net profit of the last year and not to pay dividends. Last year DTEK Pavlogradugol produced 20.14 million…
DetailsMariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has announced the price of the share sales under the squeeze-out procedure.
According to the company, the price of each share with the value of 0.25 UAH was set at 0.08 UAH.
The share price was set by the company supervisory board. (Ukrainian metal)
As of December 31, 2017 Polyus gold JORC reserves were estimated at 68 million ounces, down from 71 million ounces as of December 31, 2016. Average gold content is 1.8 g per ton, including alluvial sites and ores with low contents. Polyus retains the second position among the largest gold producers in the world as…
DetailsAzovstal Iron and Steel Works has announced the price at which its shares will be bought under the squeeze-out procedure. According to the company statement, the price of each Azovstal share with the value of 0.25 UAH was set at 0.564 UAH. The price was determined by the company supervisory board. Metinvest owns 94.74401% in…
DetailsPolyus has confirmed its gold output forecast for 2018 on the level of 2.375-2.425 million ounces and 2.8 million ounces in 2019. In 2020 it is expected to produce also 2.8 million ounces. Expenses are projected to reach $425 and $450 per ounce in 2018 and 2019-2020. This year capital expenses will amount to $850…
DetailsIn 2017 Aktyubinsk Copper Company produced 58 thousand tons of copper concentrate and 52 thousand tons of zinc concentrate, having exceeded the target by 2% and by 17% respectively.
Revenue target was overfulfilled by 17%.
Payments to the budget increased 4-fold YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
Zaporozhkoks, one of the major by-product coke chemistry manufacturers in Ukraine, has announced the price of the share sales under the squeeze-out procedure. According to the company statement, the price of one share with the value of 0.01 UAH will be 4.94 UAH, or 494 times higher. The price was set by the Zaporozhkoks supervisory…
DetailsIn 2017 Ferrexpo plc increased net profit 2.1-fold, or by $205.272 million, to $394.472 million.
Revenue grew by 21.4%, to $1197.494 million.
EBITDA increased by 46.9%, to $551 million.
Last year Ferrexpo produced 10.444 million tons of pellets, down by 6.8% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has received new Austrian machinery to be installed at the continuous casting machine No. 4. The construction of the machine is underway. The cargo weighs almost 1 thousand tons, so special machinery was used to unload it. Foreign specialists claim that the machinery corresponds to the best European norms…
DetailsNovokramatorsk Machine-Building Works has started shipping converter body with a seating ring and the mounting system to Azovstal Iron and Steel Works. The converter will be used to modernized machinery in the oxygen-converter shop. “It took us over a year to produce and start shipping the machinery weighing around 1 thousand tons”, NKMZ said. This…
DetailsIn January-February Russia increased the manufacture of raw and semi-raw gold by 2% YoY.
According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in February output grew by 9.5% YoY and by 40.4% MoM. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2017 the Meta Group of Companies, a part of ChTPZ, sold 1.32 million tons of scrap, down by 2.5% YoY, including 829 thousand tons of its own procurement, up by 69 thousand tons, and 491 thousand tons of transit scrap. Among the group participants the sales growth leaders were Vtorchermet (+30.7 thousand tons), Meta-Chelyabinsk…
DetailsIn 2018 Severstal will supply at least 60 thousand tons of rolled metal to the largest manufacturer of heavy trucks in Russia – KAMAZ. The deliveries will be carried out according to the agreement on cooperation concluded for this year. The company will supply cold- and hot-rolled sheets, including of high-strength steel grades. Last year…
DetailsFull-scale operations in Kyzyl, a large gold mine in the East Kazakhstan region, will start in 2019. “Using state-of-the-art technologies, the Bakyrchik Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise is developing a gold deposit with a capacity of 2 million tons of ore per annum. The project will reach the ultimate capacity in 2019 “, Deputy Head…
DetailsAs of March 1, Magadan region obtained 2516 kg of gold, up by 18% YoY. At present only ore gold is mined. Alluvial season will start in May. Silver output so far has totaled 101.2 tons, down by 13.7% YoY. The decrease, seen since last year, has to do with the scheduled drop in output…
DetailsThe auction for the sale of the insolvent KVV Liepajas metalurgs rolling mill equipment was concluded with the victory of Austrian Smart Stahl GmbH, as confirmed by insolvency administrator Guntars Koris. The Austrian company won the auction with its price of EUR 1.57 million (without VAT) or EUR 1.9 million (with VAT). Koris says that…
DetailsIn January-February Russia produced 636 thousand tons of steel structures, down by 14% YoY.
According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in February output increased by 10.4% MoM.
Aluminum structures manufacture dropped by 12.8%, to 8 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-February Russia increased rolled metal output by 3.3% YoY, to 10 million tons. In February output dropped by 6.9% MoM, but grew by 2.3% YoY. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, pig iron manufacture totaled 8.6 million tons, up by 1.7% YoY, with February results up by 1.1% YoY, but down by…
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