In January-February Ukraine exported 2.71 million tons of metal, or 88% of the total amount produced. Last year the share was 84.8%, or 2.64 million tons of 3.11 million tons produced. Semi-finished steel products accounted for 47.53% of exports, up from 43.19% last year. The share of the flat metal was 33.35% against 31.91%, while…
DetailsThe price of one ounce of gold decreased by 43.418 manats or by 1.9% last week in Azerbaijan. Accordingly, the average price of one ounce of gold stood at 2,218.2875 manats. The price of one ounce of silver dropped by 0.6647 manats or by 1,06%, to 25.917 manats. The price of one ounce of platinum…
DetailsCherepovets Iron and Steel Works blast furnace No. 4 has turned 50. The blast furnace produces one fourth of all the company pig iron. The furnace was blown on March 27, 1969, and the first pig iron was produced on March 29. The volume of the furnace was 2.7 thousand cubic meters, and the capacity…
DetailsIn 2018 Belarus Iron and Steel Works produced 2.4 million tons of steel, with bars manufacture at 2.1 million tons, seamless pipes – 139 thousand tons, metal cord – 92 thousand tons, and wire – 332 thousand tons. Revenue reached $1.5 billion. Last year BMZ exported metal to 66 countries. The main markets are EU…
DetailsArcelorMittal Temirtau has purchased three coal cutter-loaders from Yasinovataya Machine-Building Works situated on the territory of the Russia-occupied Donetsk region in Ukraine, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization created and supported by Russia. The price of the contract, concluded in June 2018, was $1.65 million. Paramjit Kahlon, the CEO of the AMT, is…
DetailsIn January-February domestic consumers received 555.9 thousand tons of rolled metal, with 186.9 thousand tons, or 33.6% imported. In January-February 2018, domestic market consumed 663.1 thousand tons, of which 193.1 thousand tons, or 29.1% were imported. Thus, this year metal consumption dropped by 16.2%, with imports down by 3.2%. Most metal was supplied from the…
DetailsThis year Unisteel intends to increase cold-rolled galvanized metal output to 70 thousand tons. According to the company CEO Sergey Miroshnichenko, in 2017 Unisteel sold 14.8 thousand tons of metal mostly domestically. “In 2018 sales reached some 35 thousand tons. This year we intend to double them”, he said. Around 20% of metal was exported…
DetailsThe state enterprise Yuzhniy Machine-Building Works named after Makarov has concluded and agreement with the Joint Ukrainian-Turkish enterprise Ecologia LLC on the delivery of rolled titanium valued at 30.5 million UAH. This year the company will receive 10 tons of titanium sheets with the size of 11x1100x2300 mm at 3050 UAH ($112) per kg. Last…
DetailsFrom April 1, Metinvest will increase wages to its employees by 15% on average. The salary of the directors of Metinvest enterprises and employees of the managing company will not increase. Last year Metinvest increased the wages twice: in April they grew by 20%, and in October – by 10%. In 2018 the average salary…
DetailsIn 2018 rare-earth metals consumption in Russia totaled 1.2 thousand tons, while in China – 100 thousand tons. Thus, the local market is still weak. The main consumption industries are manufacture of catalysts, glass and optics. Consumption could grow, according to the experts, by increasing catalysts output and by developing the metal industry. At present…
DetailsRusal has put into operation the second line of the first stage of the new works in Krasnoyarsk, increasing aluminum capacity from 150 thousand tons to 300 thousand tons per year. The total cost of the plant with the capacity of 600 thousand tons was estimated at $2.6 billion, of which the first stage accounted…
DetailsIn 2018 Chelyabinsk Zinc Works increased output by 4.3% YoY, to 200.9 thousand tons of zinc. The company also produced 4.013 tons of indium (+3.8%), 926.9 tons of cadmium (+6.7%) and 332.4 thousand tons of sulfur acid (+4.2%). 76.2% of the zinc produced was sold domestically. In 2016-2017 the share of the domestic market was…
DetailsIn 2018 the enterprises of UGMK-Stal were able to improve sales due to the mastering of new rolled metal types. Electrostal Tyumeni showed the highest increase – by 17% YoY. “This year the company will continue increasing sales with the help of new products, namely 25-40 mm angles. In 5 years of operation Electrostal Tyumeni…
DetailsIn 2018 Sukhaya Balka received 786.4 million UAH of net profit as opposed to 1.17 billion UAH of net loss in 2017. At the meeting scheduled for April 11, the shareholders will discuss the loan from Oschadbank of up to $30 million for 36 months with the interest rate of 23% in hryvnia, 10% in…
DetailsIn 2018 Chelyabinsk Zinc Works received 1.92 billion rubles of net profit, down 2.8-fold YoY. At the same time the revenue grew by13.9%, to 33.78 billion rubles. A part of the profit was spent to construct the Korbalikhinsky mine (3 billion rubles). Without this spending the net profit would have reached some 5 billion rubles.…
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