DTEK, which produces some 70% of electricity in Ukraine, has received the first offers from power-generating coal suppliers from SAR and Australia, who can sell it at 1.7-2.15 thousand UAH ($68.5-86.6) per ton with 5.7 thousand kcal quality. According to the company commercial director John Woodham, deliveries from the temporarily uncontrolled territories (the so-called Donetsk…
DetailsIn January-June Ferrexpo produced 5.72 million tons of iron ore pellets, down by 1.6% YoY. According to the company statement, 65% Fe content pellets output went up by 5.9% YoY, to 5.35 million tons, that of 62% Fe content fell by 51.9% YoY, to 363.9 thousand tons. Ferrexpo own ore pellets output totaled 5.7 million…
DetailsIn January-June Ukrainian companies mined 18975.1 thousand tons of coal, down by 2.6% YoY, or by 496.6 thousand tons. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal mining went up by 7.3% YoY, or by 4357.1 thousand tons, while that of power-generating coal dropped by 5.1% YoY, or by 793.6 thousand tons,…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 318 545 291 340 May 451 614 368 468 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsDTEK draws attention to the highly unstable deliveries of A-grade coal from the terrorist-occupied regions of Donbass.
“The delivery volume is extremely low”, said the DTEK Energo communications department director Irina Milyutina.
According to DTEK, daily deliveries total 7-10 tons. (Ukrainian metal)
NLMK Group has started hot testing two high-pressure grinding rollers at section 4 of Stoilensky’s beneficiation plant. The new process will now cover 50% of Stoilensky’s grinding capacity. High pressure grinding roller (HPGR) technology is new to the Russian market. Stoilensky was the first to commission HPGR units. These will enable a 10% increase in…
DetailsFor the past few weeks the Black Sea pig iron price fall has been lower than in May. Metal companies try to shift prices to August output. Metinvest kept its prices on the level of $250 per ton CFR Turkey and Italy. Its latest sales to Turkey were at $245-250 per ton, and to Italy…
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Zaporizhstal has concluded an agreement with Danieli Corus for the delivery of the conoless feeder within the blast furnace No. 3 overhaul. According to the company statement, the price of the contract is 165 million UAH. The new equipment will increase the furnace output. The feeder will be delivered in November. The reconstruction will also…
DetailsIn January-June Donetsk Iron and Steel Works produced 350 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 87.2% YoY. In June the company produced 35 thousand tons of pig iron, down from 106 thousand tons in May. Open-hearth manufacture was shut down in 2012, and the steel smelting complex is under construction, so the works doesn’t…
DetailsIn 2016 metal consumption in Ukraine will grow by 2.6% YoY, or by 3358 million tons, according to Metinvest-SMC. “We believe the rise will continue next year as well. At least all the companies involved should demonstrate better results”, said the company CEO Dmitry Lippa. He also noted the increase in the mining industry by…
DetailsIn January-May Poltava Mining and Processing Works exported 4.99 million tons of iron ore pellets. According to Ukrpromvneshexpertisa, pellets were exported to Europe and the Near East, as well as Japan, China and Korea. At the same time Central GOK exported 870 thousand tons of pellets. In January-May Poltava GOK produced 4.82 million tons of…
DetailsVladimir Potanin, president of Norilsk Nickel, came to Norilsk. He visited various production sites, where the company carries out its strategic projects, and held business meetings with the Polar Division management to discuss reconfiguration of production, implementation of capacity increase programs, and improvement of the environmental situation in Norilsk industrial region. According to Norilsk Nickel…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 18 20 22 26 May 17 20 26 30 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsIn January-June Zaporizhstal produced 1987.8 thousand tons of steel, up by 2.2% YoY, or by 43.4 thousand tons. According to the company statement, it has also increased pig iron (by 2.7% YoY, or by 49.2 thousand tons, to 1846.8 thousand tons) and rolled metal (by 3.5% YoY, or by 58.6 thousand tons, to 1736.2 thousand…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has opened a metal warehouse in the central region of Ukraine, in the city of Dnieper (renamed from Dniepropetrovsk). “This is our 8th warehouse in Ukraine, we plan to supply over 3 thousand tons of metal from there each month. The warehouse carries all the AMKR products”, said the company in its…
DetailsAccording to Ukrmetallurgprom, in the first half of 2016 metal companies produced 12.45 million tons of steel, up by 11%, 10.9 million tons of rolled metal, up by 12%, and 11.94 million tons of pig iron, up by 17% YoY. Pipe output decreased by 7%, to 398 thousand tons, while that of coke went up…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 414 414 427 427 May 443 443 471 471 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsUpon completion of the open tendering procedure, Norilsk Nickel has picked the contractor for supply and installation of communication equipment required for developing the transportation network and outfitting the backup area with radio-link communication across the Yenisei River, as part of the project involving the construction of fiber-optic communication line (FOCL) from Novy Urengoy to…
DetailsIn January-May industrial output in Donetsk region (without the antiterrorist operation zone) increased by 7.2% YoY, but in May it was down by 4% MoM and by 1.2% YoY. The regional metal output went up by 9.3%, while mining production rose by 15.9%, all YoY. Coal mining reached 6.3 million tons, up by 17.1% YoY.…
DetailsIn May the Central Mining and Processing Factory, registered in Antrazit, the city in the Russia-supported terrorist-controlled territory, started exporting anthracite having acquired the appropriate license from the Ukrainian authorities. The coal was supplied to Slovakia. The coal price on the border is around $80 per ton DAP. The precise export volumes of the Central…
DetailsIn the first quarter United Mining and Chemical Company received 177.3 million UAH of pre-tax profits, with net income exceeding 400 million UAH. Net profits reached 144 million UAH, with EBITDA at 168.9 million UAH. In the first quarter of 2015 the company net income totaled 215 million UAH, with net profits at 44.9 million…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has created a private company Steel Service to provide auxiliary services to manufacturing processes of the company. “Steel Service will provide high quality service to AMKR from the single center. We can take any auxiliary function and develop it, increasing its quality and implementing innovations”, said the company director Irina Footrook. (Ukrainian…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* Export, Ukraine, $/t, FOB Black sea ports Export, Russia, $/t, FOB Black sea ports min max min max min max min max April 378 630 362 388 480 485 400 485 May 452 700 433 453 425 470 430 475…
DetailsThe shutdown is a step in the comprehensive plan to close up the obsolete nickel production facilities and move the feed to other sites. Nickel Plant, in operation since 1942, is located within the city limits and negatively impacts the environment. “Last year Nickel Plant emitted 340 thousand tons of sulfur dioxide, half of which…
DetailsVostochny Mining and Processing Works has chosen the trading house Eco-Service for the delivery of 12.82 thousand tons of lime worth 34.75 million UAH in July-December.
The offer was accepted on June 21. Torgservice Company offered 36.56 million UAH. (Ukrainian metal)