In January-September Izhstal (a part of Mechel) produced 282 thousand tons of metal, up by 48% YoY.
Sales increased by 51%. Steel and rolled metal output went up by 24% and 33% YoY respectively.
In September the works sold 46.2 thousand tons of metal, an absolute record for the last 25 years. (Ukrainian metal)
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih plans to invest $1.5 billion into development until 2020. “We would go on with our investment activities”, Paramjit Kahlon, the company CEO, explained. For the past 10 years AMKR has been investing some $250 million each year. According to Kahlon, the works operation has a positive impact on the economical situation in…
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* – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Ruble exchange rates are as of 31.08.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. (Ukrainian Metal)
In January-September NLMK produced 12.3 million tons of steel, up by 2% YoY. Capacity loading increased by 1%, to 95%. Sales totaled 12.29 million tons, up by 2% YoY, including 4.36 million tons of semi-finished products, up by 1%, and 7.92 million tons of finished products, up by 3%, in particular 6.26 million tons of…
DetailsCorum Group is in search for additional orders on the market of Vietnam. “Vietnam has major plans as to coalmining and so it has to stop using mining by hand. The country is building new mines that will be equipped with machinery. We have a turnkey contract with Vinacomin to construct two shafts of Nui…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.91* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.489* min max min max July 521 521 444 444 August 495 495 409 409 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Ruble exchange rates are as of 31.08.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsRussian steelmaker Severstal’s coal production unit Vorkutaugol is evacuating workers from the Zapolarnaya mine because the carbon monoxide level has exceeded the norm, the company said in a statement. “In accordance with the safety rules, the workers on the shift are being lifted to the surface. Emergency Ministry troops are investigating the mine. There were…
DetailsDTEK Pervomayskoye Mine Group has put into operation a new long face with 430 thousand tons of coal. The length of the face is 280 meters. Coal deposits will be enough for 8 months. Since the year start Pervomayskoye Mine Group has put 2 long faces into operation. The group annual coal target is 3.3…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.91* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.489* min max min max July 443 2135 418 418 August 389 2135 418 418 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Ruble exchange rates are as of 31.08.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsIn January-June Metinvest B.V. received $90 million of net profits as opposed to $166 million of losses in H1 2015. The company revenues dropped by 21% YoY, to $2.88 billion, while EBITDA decreased by 7%, to $580 million. The total debt increased by 1%, to $2.98 billion. According to the group CEO Yuri Ryzhenkov, the…
DetailsOn October 10, the mine named after Skochinsky, situated near the military zone, put into operation a new long face with 493 thousand tons of coal deposits. “The length of the face is 238 meters, the thickness of the layer is 1.5 meters, and the deposits are estimated at 493 thousand tons. We plan to…
DetailsNorilsk Nickel provides an update on the status of the sale of its 50% participation interest in the Nkomati JV. On October 17, 2014 Norilsk Nickel announced that it had entered into a binding agreement for the sale of its African assets to Botswana-based BCL Investments, which was controlled by the government of Botswana. All…
DetailsThe total volume of titanium products shipped by VSMPO-Avisma this year could keep with 2015 level – 28-29 thousand tons. According to the company general director Mikhail Voevodin, sales structure shifted to exports, but would not affect financial results. “We have lost some 4 thousand tons YoY in Russia, but received 2 thousand tons in…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.91* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.489* min max min max July 43 50 59 69 August 46 52 53 61 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Ruble exchange rates are as of 31.08.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsIn January-August Russia decreased the raw nickel output by 10.8% YoY, but increased that of raw cobalt by 71.1%. According to the Federal State Statistics Service, in August raw nickel output dropped by 16.9% YoY but went up by 8.5% MoM, while that of raw cobalt increased 2.4 times YoY and by 8.6% MoM. (Ukrainian…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih plans to stop using natural gas altogether in 2 years replacing it with the pulverized coal mix. On October 12, the Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman participated in the putting into operation of the PCI machine in the blast furnace No. 9 at AMKR. “We’re injecting some 40 tons per hour, that’s around…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.91* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.489* Export, Ukraine, $/t, FOB Black sea ports min max min max min max July 402 539 326 384 365 380 August 373 515 342 384 365 375 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Ruble exchange rates are as of 31.08.16…
DetailsSinarsky Pipe Works (a part of TMK) has produced a batch of casing 146.1 mm diameter pipes with the total weight of 788.7 tons and shipped them to Sugrutneftegaz.
The pipes will be used in gas, gas-condensate and oil fields of the North at minus 600 degrees C. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-August Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works trading house in Schelkovo increased its sections sales share in the Central region from 7% to 12%, while the market itself dropped by 2% since the beginning of the year.
But the trading house sales went up by 76% YoY, to 42 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
Month Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.91* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.489* min max min max July 31 37 34 39 August 33 39 31 36 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Ruble exchange rates are as of 31.08.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsZaporizhstal has started using the new exsufflation system of the casting yard at its blast furnace No. 2. According to the company statement, investments totaled 80 million UAH. For the past 4 years Zaporizhstal invested some 5.6 billion UAH into environmental modernization of its manufacture. The major projects this year are the new sintering machine…
DetailsIn January-September Magadan region mined 22.21 tons of gold and 680.08 tons of silver, up by 9.3% and down by 22.18% YoY respectively. In 2015 Kolyma companies mined 24.5 tons of gold and 1127.5 tons of silver, up by 1.5% and 17.3% YoY respectively. This year the local administration expects gold mining to reach 27…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.91* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.489* Export, Ukraine, $/t, FOB Black sea ports min max min max min max July 409 518 343 392 375 385 August 385 493 343 360 370 380 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Ruble exchange rates are as of 31.08.16…
DetailsIn January-August Russia imported 2.76 million tons of ferrous metals, down by 1.63% YoY. Far foreign countries supplied 1.81 million tons of ferrous metals. According to the Federal Customs Service, steel imports (not counting pig iron, ferroalloys and scrap) decreased by 8.59%, to 2.28 million tons. Steel pipes imports grew by 19.76% YoY, to 0.29…
DetailsIn January-August Russia exported 28.65 million tons of ferrous metals, up by 3.4% YoY. According to the Federal Customs Service, pig iron exports went up by 3.6%, to 3.39 million tons, that of carbon steel semi-finished products – by 3.8%, to 9.72 million tons, all YoY. In monetary terms ferrous exports fell by 16.6% YoY,…
DetailsMachine-building works of Corum Group are loaded at more than 100%. “Our clients are returning to their old investment projects. The underground mining equipment sees the largest demand. This is all due to the increase of demand for and prices of coking coal and the preparation to the heating season”, said the company CEO Yakov…
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