The metal trading company of Mechel – Mechel-Service LLC – has supplied 210 tons of rebars for the construction of the first wind park in Russia, situated near the town of Ulyanovsk. The first wind power plant will consist of 14 generators (35 MW). Since the beginning of the year Mechel-Service has supplied 210 tons…
DetailsSeverstal is participating in the construction of a stadium in Kaliningrad. According to the company statement, it has already supplied 200 tons of rolled metal to be used in the construction of the roof and the recreation zone of the building. “The wide range of products offered by Severstal to the construction industry, as well…
DetailsGerman Pikhoya, a member of the management board of Russian nanotechnology company Rusnano and former CEO of gold producer Polyus, may become CEO of gold miner GV Gold. Pikhoya has left Rusnano to “chair a large gold producing company,” Rusnano said without any specifications. Pikhoya said he would be ready to discuss the topic only…
DetailsUkrmetallurgprom has addressed the Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman asking him to cancel the railroad tariff and port fee discounts for coal and ore transportation from Russia from Q2. The enterprise president Alexander Kalenkov believes that under present circumstances such a decision will make the use of the local transportation infrastructure more efficient and…
DetailsMetinvest has replaced the director of Krasnodonugol, which has lost control over its assets on the uncontrolled territory of the Lugansk region. According to the company statement, the supervisory board ended the office of the Alexander Angelovsky and appointed Valentin Kononov the acting CEO instead. DTEK has replaced director of Komsomolets Donbassa mine, which has…
DetailsThe Guryevsk Iron and Steel Works has started producing a new product type – 35 mm steel milling balls. The new product corresponds to the GOST 7524-2015. Around 200 tons of new balls have already been supplied to the customers. GMZ is one of the leaders on the Russian market of milling balls. It can…
DetailsIn January-February Kazakhstan decreased copper cathodes and raw zinc output by 3.3% and by 1% YoY respectively.
According to the Statistics committee of the Economy Ministry, raw steel output went up by 8.6% YoY.
Kaz Minerals and KazZinc produce most of the metal. (Ukrainian metal)
In February Dneprospetsstal produced 19933 tons of steel and 13235 tons of rolled metal, down by 1.8% and by 6.6% MoM respectively. The total cost of the products manufactured is 603172 thousand UAH, down by 2.7% MoM. In January-February DSS produced 40233 tons of steel and 27408 tons of rolled metal, up by 28.5% and…
DetailsKyrgyzstan is deciding on construction of the copper-smelting works, according to the State committee on industry, energy and soil.
To process concentrate the construction of the copper works and the implementation of the new technologies are needed, which are currently absent in Kyrgyzstan. (Ukrainian metal)
OMZ-Spetsstal has produced the largest forging ingot in the company history – weighing 443 tons. The ingot will be used to produce a heavy supporting roll for the 5000 mill of the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. The size of the future product: diameter – 2.36 meters, length – 12 meters. The total weight of…
DetailsThe increase of railroad tariffs this year by 25%, planned by Ukrzaliznytsia, is inadmissible, the Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant CEO Oleg Bespalov believes. “They come and say that they need to increase tariffs to buy wagons, as they have no money”, he said. According to Bespalov, this has been heard before, but the situation with the…
DetailsIn 2016 Ferrexpo received $189.2 million of net profits, up 6-fold YoY, with revenue up by 2.6%, to $986.33 million. According to the company statement, its EBITDA increased by 20%, to $375 million. At the same time its net debt decreased by 32% YoY, to $589 million. Capital investments last year dropped by 25%, to…
DetailsUkrainian companies in January imported coking coal for CAD 48.2 million ($36.2 million under the current exchange rate) from Canada, while in January 2016 no coking coal was imported, Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine Roman Waschuk reported. He said that British Columbia had large stocks of coking coal and production facilities. Supplies from the province could…
DetailsThe privatization of the Chervonogradskaya central processing factory has been named illegal, and the Lviv regional commercial court of appeals returned its assets to the state ownership. After the privatization in 2008 and the creation of the Lviv Coal Company the state controlled 37.58% of shares in the new company, with 62% controlled by the…
DetailsMetinvest plans to finish restructuring debt on eurobonds and pre-export financing (PXF) and issue just over $1.971 billion in new bonds on March 22, the Ukrainian mining and metallurgical holding said in a statement filed with the Irish Stock Exchange. The holding will also complete the formalities for a new PXF facility worth $1.109 billion.…
DetailsOn March 20, a working group on the liberalization of the coal market in Ukraine was created to fulfill an order issued by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman. Vice Prime Minister Volodymyr Kistion was appointed head of the group, reads a report on the government’s website. “On March 9, under the chairmanship of…
DetailsRussian gold producer Polyus will sell an 82.34% stake in the Nezhdaninskoye gold deposit for $158 million to a company beneficially controlled by Ivan Kulakov, a former managing director of Highland Gold Mining, Polyus said in a statement on March 21. The payment will consist of two tranches: $100 million will be paid upon completion…
DetailsMagnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works has decided to modernize its continuous casting machine No. 6 and the 5000 plate mill in order to start producing hot-rolled metal of the 350 mm thick slab. The project, including modification, assembly and putting into operation, is expected to be finished this year. At present the CCM No. 6…
DetailsIn 2016 the Russian Railways throughput dropped by 1% YoY, mostly because of the considerable decrease in coal transportation. 99% of the transit raw materials come from Kazakhstan, and last year they decreased by 24.4% YoY. On the other hand, this has been compensated for by the ferrous metals transportation from Kazakhstan, which increased by…
DetailsIn February Ukraine exported $31.203 million worth of pig iron, with imports on the level of $0.223 million. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main importer of Ukrainian pig iron in February was Italy ($10.166 million). In January-February Ukraine exported $99.642 million worth of pig iron, while imports totaled $0.286 million. Pig iron exports…
DetailsFollowing the cave-in of the Stepnaya mine in the Lviv region the government commission will check 300 mining companies. “We are checking all the documents at 300 enterprises of the mining complex which are deemed dangerous”, the Vice Prime Minister Gennadiy Zubko said. The commission started operating on March 6. According to Zubko the Stepnaya…
DetailsIn 2017 Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant intends to increase ore processing by 14% YoY, to 1.618 million tons, ferronickel output by 3.5%, to 82.7 thousand tons, and nickel manufacture by 3.3%, to 18.7 thousand tons. According to the company CEO Oleg Bespalov, in H1 the ferronickel output is expected to reach 40 thousand tons, nickel –…
DetailsChepets Mechanical Works has concluded a 5-year contract for the delivery of a large batch of rolled titanium to Hermith GmbH. According to the agreement, the works will supply over 1 thousand tons of various titanium products to the European market valued at $34.5 million. “We plan to supply the ChMZ metal to all the…
DetailsIn January-June Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant intends to carry out repairs of its main machinery valued at 46.9 million UAH. According to the company CEO Oleg Bespalov, in 2016 the plant carried out repairs valued at 50.33 million UAH. This year the company will also spend 31.3 million UAH on environment protection. The works intends to…
DetailsIn 2016 Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Works received 808.74 million UAH of net profits, up 2.6-fold YoY. According to the company statement, the cost of its assets at the end of 2016 totaled 19.07 billion UAH. The company accounts receivable reached 11.61 billion UAH, current liabilities – 10.53 billion UAH and fixed liabilities – 817.24…
DetailsU.K. Highland Gold Mining (HGM), which operates in Russia, has estimated capital expenditures on the Unkurtash deposit in Kyrgyzstan to amount to $322 million, the company said in a statement on March 20. The field’s annual gold output is expected at 133,000 ounces, or 4.14 tons, on average with operating expenses of $616 per ounce…
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