Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groisman visited Azovstal Iron and Steel Works on June 1. During his visit, the head of the government had a look at blast furnace No. 4, the most innovative and environmentally friendly smelting facility in Ukraine. Enver Tskitishvili, Azovstal CEO, and Yuri Zinchenko, Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works CEO,…
DetailsThe department of the State Architecture-Construction Inspection in Donetsk region has checked the object of the fifth difficulty category: “The construction of the first stage of the pulverized coal fuel preparation and injection complex for Azovstal blast furnaces”. The inspectors have checked the finished construction of the object on 1 Leporsky Street in Mariupol, as…
DetailsThe Metinvest group minimal wage equals to the average salary in Ukraine, Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman said during his visit to the city of Mariupol and Azovstal Iron and Steel Works.
The company CEO Enver Tskitishvili noted, that in June the salary across the group increased by 20% on average. (Ukrainian metal)
In May railroad transportation increased by 3.5% YoY, to 106.5 million tons. According to the Russian Railroads, in January-May throughput increased by 3.8% YoY, to 516.9 million tons. Coke transportation in 5 months increased by 1.3%, to 4.7 million tons, ferrous scrap – by 7.4%, to 5.6 million tons. At the same time ferrous metals…
DetailsMednogorsk Copper-Sulfur Works railroad crane fleet has increased by one unit. The cost of the new machinery is around 7 million rubles. The lifting capacity of the crane is 25 tons, with the arm length of 15 meters and the lifting height of 14 meters. “This is a long-expected purchase for us. The cranes that…
DetailsChelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works beams are used in the manufacture of railroad cars and flat wagons for cold climate. The company has already supplied 900 tons of rolled metal to Roslavl Wagon-Repair Works. The flat wagons will be used to transport timber and bulk cargo. The metal for such wagons has to be able…
DetailsKyshtym Electrolitic Copper Plant has prepared a site for the construction of two additional rows of electrolyses bathes (40 bathes in each row). All the unnecessary equipment has been disassembled. The next stage is creation of the foundation. The KMEZ copper electrolyses shop capacity will increase from 120 thousand tons to 140 thousand tons of…
DetailsThe ChTPZ group and Rostselmash have signed a cooperation agreement.
The contract is valid till 2019 and makes ChTPZ the main supplier of pipes. The group will supply not less than 90% of pipes for Rostov Press Works, a part of Rostselmash. (Ukrainian metal)
Russia’s Aluminum Association and the aerospace branch of aluminum producer RUSAL will jointly promote seats manufactured by Vemina Aviaprestige, the association said in a statement. The companies have asked the Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, to appeal to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and FAA for certificate approval of the Russian-manufactured seats, which will…
DetailsIn January-April Central Mining and Processing Works produced 674 thousand tons of pellets, down by 19% YoY. According to a company representative, iron ore concentrate output dropped by 11.4%, to 1.536 million tons. In April CGOK produced 67 thousand tons of pellets and 385 thousand tons of concentrate, down from 200 thousand tons of pellets…
DetailsBelarus is ready to help Sudan and Egypt with extracting gold and other mineral resources, Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Minister Andrei Kovkhuto declared. The relevant matters were discussed as a delegation of the Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry visited Sudan and Egypt. Among other things the sides discussed the possibility of…
DetailsA representative of the Swiss company “Argor-Heraeus SA”, one of the biggest refining companies of the world with which “AzerGold” Closed Joint-Stock Company is working, has visited Azerbaijan. The purpose of the visit was to get more acquainted with the Azerbaijani company’s operations. The Argor representative has been to Chovdar Ore Processing Area located in…
DetailsThe Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has signed a decree to increase the number of deposits to be given into concession to investors. According to the document, signed on May 30, three more oil deposits have been included in the list. Now the list has 15 objects, including precious metals deposits of Zuberovo in Minsk region.…
DetailsMetinvest demands the reimbursement of VAT for 2016 for the works, the control over which was lost in mid-March. According to the group statement, the state debt on VAT reimbursement to the companies on the uncontrolled territories of Donbass stands at $35 million. At the same time, Metinvest claims that in 2016 VAT reimbursement to…
DetailsThe development of the Amulsar gold deposits is the largest investment project of Armenia. Total investments in the project will reach some $370 million. 570 builders are involved in the construction work, with 280 being locals. The mine will create 700 jobs. The project started in August 2016, while preliminary work began in 2006. The…
DetailsArcelorMittal Temirtau has put into operation 4 new heading machines at its mines. In particular, the machines were sent to the Abaiskaya, Kazakhstanskaya, Shakhtinskaya and Kostenko mines. The total cost of the heading machines exceeded 650 million tenge. This year the company plans to invest even more in the development of all its 8 mines.…
DetailsAccording to the analytical center of the Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in January-March Ukraine received 1 million tons of rolled metal (1.1 million tons with pipes), up by 10.2% YoY. Imports increased by 5.4%, to 0.16 million tons. The share of imports decreased to 16.7% from 17.5% in Q1 2016. The delivery of angles…
DetailsRussian gold-mining company Polyus has signed an agreement to sell 10% (12.56 million) shares to the Consortium of investors chaired by Fosun International Ltd. The price of the purchase is $70.6 per share. Within the agreement the company has also provided the Consortium with an option to buy additional 5% of shares at $77.66 per…
DetailsSeverstal has been selected the supplier of rolled metal till August to Renault-Nissan. The Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works sheet will be used in production of cars. “In 2016 CherMK put into operation a cold-rolling mill, which would improve the quality of the cold-rolled metal and would produce wider sheet”, Severstal Management sales director Evgeniy…
DetailsIn May Ukraine produced 1.689 million tons of steel, up by 7.5% YoY. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, pig iron output increased by 10.2%, to 1.591 million tons, that of rolled metal – by 6.3%, to 1.424 million tons. Average daily steel manufacture in May was 54.5 thousand tons, up from 52.4 thousand tons in April. Average…
DetailsIn May Zaporizhstal produced 325.2 thousand tons of steel, down by 11.2% YoY. According to the company statement, pig iron output dropped by 17.1%, to 285.5 thousand tons, that of rolled metal – by 12.3%, to 272 thousand tons. The decrease of output is the result of the shut down of the blast furnace No.…
DetailsAt an Annual General Meeting held on May 31 in St. Petersburg, members of the Russian Steel Association elected the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NLMK Group Vladimir Lisin their new President. Lisin will preside over the Association for the next two years. Anatoly Sedikh, Chairman of the Management Board of OMK, was…
DetailsMetinvest-Resource, a scrap supplier of Metinvest companies, Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsk Pipe Works and ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih have won tenders, organized by Ukrzaliznytsia to sell 84.5 thousand tons of scrap. AMKR won 38 thousand tons of scrap, having offered 193 million UAH (5080 UAH per ton). Metinvest-Resource bought 24 thousands tons of scrap for 114.72 million UAH…
DetailsAlexander Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group has taken over the management of Evraz Sukhaya Balka and appointed Vitaly Bash its new CEO. “We will do our best to make Sukhaya Balka develop. There will be no sharp actions, but we still intend to implement some novelties that we have devised at DCH”, Yaroslavsky said. The next several…
DetailsIn 2016 the world top-10 steel manufacturers remained the same. The main steel manufacturers now are in the Asian region, with 5 in China, 2 in Japan, and 1 each in South Korea and India. The leader is ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg) with 95.45 million tons of steel produced in 2016. Russian companies were able to reach…
DetailsIn January-April the republic of Buryatia mined 1177.5 thousand tons of coal, up by 50.8% YoY.
According to the regional ministry of natural resources, the increase was the result of the coalmining start at Nikolskoye deposits of Tugnuysky open-pit in June 2016. (Ukrainian metal)