In January-September Ukraine exported 4.911 million tons of carbon steel semi-finished products, up by 15.8% YoY, valued at $2.354 billion, up by 45.6%. According to the State Fiscal Service, Italy imported 34.65% of the semi-finished products, Egypt – 17.17% and Turkey – 16.7%. In 9 months Ukraine imported 33.616 thousand tons of semi-finished products valued…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine increased copper and copper wares imports by 12.1% YoY, to $69.79 million. According to the customs statistics, copper exports also grew – by 26.3%, to $117.114 million. In September copper imports totaled $9.225 million, and exports – $5.889 million. Nickel imports in 9 months grew by 32.5%, to $73.826 million ($7.431 million…
DetailsIn January-September Dalpolymetal increased ore output by 49.2% YoY, to 623 thousand tons. This exceeds the business plan by 2.2%. Since the start of the year factory has processed 610 thousand tons of ore, up by 51.3%. The company has produced 7.7 thousand tons of lead concentrate, up by 51.7%. Zinc concentrate manufacture totaled 12.6…
DetailsThe Northeastern manufacturing and geological enterprise, a part of the state holding Rosgeologia, has finished designing the project of operations at the Deryas-Yuryaginskaya prospective field. There the company is looking for ore gold under the state contract concluded with the Department on subsoil use of the Far Eastern District. The size of the field is…
DetailsThe growth of the output and the expansion of the product portfolio made Andrometa increase its manufacturing capacities. In 2017 the company management decided to construct the fifth shop with the height of 12 meters and the size of 1.5 thousand square meters. The shop allows working with structures of the size of 1000×2000 mm…
DetailsElectrozinc has completed the annual repairs of its zinc manufacture and commissioned the main and auxiliary shops. The company has also put into operation the absorber of the sulfuric acid shop and the cooling tower of the steam power shop. “The commissioning of the absorber has completed the reconstruction of the sulfuric acid shop, which…
DetailsLukoil president Vagit Alekperov and Severstal chairman Alexei Mordashov have held a working meeting in Moscow. They discussed development of cooperation. “Severstal is an important partner for Lukoil. It is one of the leaders in Russian metal and mining industry, a company with a vast international experience. We’ve been developing cooperation since 2006, helping each…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine increased imports of coal by 20% YoY, to 15.64 million tons. According to the State Fiscal Service, the cost of coal was $2.191 billion, up by 15.4%. Russia supplied $1.374 billion worth of coal (62.72%), USA – $670.563 million (30.59%), Canada – $86.93 million (3.97%) and other countries – $59.532 million (2.72%).…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has received a new order from ArcelorMittal for the manufacture of four supporting rolls for the hot-rolling mills. The rolls have to be delivered to France – to AM Atlantique et Lorraine Seremange HSM and ArcelorMittal Lorraine-Florange CSM. The first two rolls with the weight of 63.2 tons will be shipped to the customer…
DetailsIn September direct deliveries of ferrous scrap to the major Russian metal and pipe works via railroad totaled 1.43 million tons.
According to the railroad statistics, this is up by 10.43% YoY.
In January-September scrap deliveries grew by 4.4%, to 10.23 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In September sales of steel and pipes via railroad from the major metal companies dropped by 4.5% YoY, to 4.94 million tons. Delivery to the local market totaled 2.91 million tons, down by 7.4%, while exports grew by 0.1%, to 2.03 million tons. In 9 months steel sales via railroad reached 47.7 million tons, up…
DetailsIn September Russia transported 6.22 million tons of ferrous metals via railroad, up by 1.7% YoY. Deliveries to the local market dropped by 0.8%, to 3.6 million tons, while exports grew by 7.5%, to 2.21 million tons. Imports decreased by 16.8%, to 303.7 thousand tons. In January-September ferrous metals transportation reached 58.22 million tons, up…
DetailsThe Vorgashorskaya mine has become the first enterprise of Vorkutaugol to mine 2 million tons of coal this year. By the end of the year the mine intends to have extracted one more million tons of coal. The mine is the largest coal-extracting enterprise on the European part of Russia. This is also the youngest…
DetailsNizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel Works, a part of Evraz, will construct its fifth continuous casting machine. “We’re modernizing extraction systems in the mixing department, which will decrease impact on the environment. We are also planning to develop the department of continuous cast steel and have started the project of the CCM No. 5”, Evraz…
DetailsIn Q3 Zagorsky Pipe Works reached its design capacity and produced 138 thousand tons of large diameter pipes in January-September. In July the company shipped 45 thousand tons, in August – 37 thousand tons, while in September – 56 thousand tons. In particular, for Gazprom ZTZ produced 130 thousand tons, including 37 thousand tons for…
DetailsThe project to create a new pipe manufacture at Vyksa Iron and Steel Works is entering the investment stage. The new shop will produce a wide range of seamless pipes with the diameter of 70-273 mm with the annual capacity of 450 thousand tons. Investments in the project are not disclosed. Danieli will supply the…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has won a tender to supply over 700 tons of rolls to ABB. The rolls will be used in electric engines. According to the schedule of deliveries, the billets will be shipped to the customer in February 2019. In September EMSS shipped a batch of rolls for ABB to Finland. The batch included 12…
DetailsBelarus Iron and Steel Works intends to commission a new gas and dust extraction system in 2019. According to the company information, investments in the project will exceed $13.5 million. 55% of funds have already been used. WaterGroup Ltd. (Finland) has supplied all the necessary equipment. To assemble the system, the electric furnace No. 3…
DetailsMagnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has decided to use the electronic trading platform B2B Center to choose equipment repair services. This will ensure the openness of tender procedures, as well as automating the collection of proposals from potential contractors and expanding the customer base. “We have successfully tested the capabilities and functionality of B2B…
DetailsPrices of gold, silver and platinum decreased in Azerbaijan on October 8, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The price of gold fell by 2.3 manats, to 2,035.3165 manats per ounce on October 8 compared to the price on October 5. The price of silver dropped by 0.1433 manats, to 24.6487 manats…
DetailsAlliance Altyn Company is going to put a license for development of Jerooy gold deposit in pledge in a bank to get a loan of $180 million, Daniyar Zhanykulov, head of the company’s public relations department, reported. According to him, the wording of the law on mineral resources, adopted in May, allows companies to carry…
DetailsThe price of one ounce of gold increased by 17.527 manats or by 0.87% last week in Azerbaijan, to 2,033.8273 manats. The price of one ounce of silver decreased by 0.0936 manats or by 0.39%, to 24.3830 manats. The price of one ounce of platinum grew by 18.3022 manats or 1.32%, to 1,400.0622 manats. While…
DetailsAn alternative route has been established for the supply of raw materials from Azerbaijan to Tajikistan for the needs of the Tajik Aluminum Company (TALCO), the Tajik Embassy in Azerbaijan reported. This route implies deliveries from Azerbaijan through Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to Tajikistan bypassing Turkmenistan. The transit through Turkmenistan has recently been closed, and…
DetailsIn 5 years the KamAZ foundry works has decreased the level of faulty products 4-fold, to 2.05%. By the next year the works intends to have reduced it by 25% more. According to the chief technical engineer of the company Vitaliy Martemyanov, every day special working groups analyze the conditions of the foundry rigs and…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine increased rolled metal output by 6% YoY, to 13.844 million tons. Steel manufacture grew by 4%, to 15.767 million tons and pig iron – by 9%, to 15.288 million tons. In September Ukraine produced 1.657 million tons of pig iron, down by 3.7% MoM, 1.787 million tons of steel (on par) and…
DetailsThe converter shop of Evraz NTMK – the first converter shop in Russia – is celebrating its 55th anniversary. Since its launch the shop has smelted 140 million tons of steel and produced 70 million tons of steel billets. Now the converter shop boasts four 160-ton converters. It also has four ladle-furnaces and two circulatory…
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