In December Corum Group supplied three headgear sheaves to Norilsk Nickel. According to the company statement, the machinery will be used at Taimyrsky and Zapolyarny mines to extract copper-nickel ores. Taymysrky mine is one of the deepest in Europe and Asia, mining there is carried out at the depth of 1450 meters. Corum Group and…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to rent berths at the Olvia port in Nikolaev to transship its products. “We want to rent some berths at the port, but the process has been suspended”, AMKR CEO Paramjit Kahlon said. Ukraine has 18 seaports, with the most situated in Odessa region, including Odessa seaport and seaport Yuzny. (Ukrainian…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih CEO Paramjit Kahlon has noted the positive impact of the decree on scrap export duty increase on the company. “We don’t import scrap. But the government decision to impose a 30 euro per ton duty really helps us”, he said. “The scrap supplies have remained on the same level. At any rate…
DetailsIn January 2017 Ukraine will produce 2 million tons of steel, according to Ukrmetallurgprom forecast. Pig iron output will also reach 2 million tons, while that of rolled metal – 1.8 million tons. In January-November Ukraine produced 22.2 million tons of steel, 21.6 million tons of pig iron and 19.6 million tons of rolled metal,…
DetailsIn November the copper sulfate shop of Uralelectromed, a part of UMCC, produced 3.5 thousand tons of copper sulfate, up by 30% from the average monthly results.
The increase is believed to stem from the constant modernization of machinery. In 2015 the company worked out a program to increase productivity and output volumes. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2017 Chelaybinsk Pipe Works will decrease pipe supplies to its main clients – Gazprom, Transneft, Rosneft and Lukoil. The volumes will start growing again in 2018. According to ChTPZ estimates Gazprom might receive 205 thousand tons in 2017, down by 25% YoY, 345 thousand tons in 2018, 532 thousand tons in 2019 and 418…
DetailsEvraz NTMK has shipped rails for the construction of subway in the Georgia capital of Tbilisi. Over 350 tons of rails have already been shipped. R50 rails with the length of 25 meters will be used in the construction of a new station called “University”. Tbilisi subway was founded in 1966 and consists of 22…
DetailsAlchevsk Iron and Steel Works, situated on the terrorists-controlled territory, has put its blast furnace No. 1 into operation. The blast furnace has been in reserve after an overhaul since June 1, 2014. The daily output at the furnace ranges from 65% to 75% of its capacity. The increase is hindered by the shortage of…
DetailsMetinvest started supplying galvanized rolled metal to Poland.
“We used to supply these products to CIS and to the local market, but we have started to reorient on European customers”, Metinvest-SMC CEO Dmitry Lippa said.
Galvanized rolled metal is supplied to EU from Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. (Ukrainian metal)
Pridneprovsk Railways, a part of Ukrzaliznytsia, considers the words of ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih on the shortage of railroad cars an attempt to discredit and pressure the state transporting company. “We call unto the company management not to manipulate the corruption theme, but to seek for constructive and mutually beneficial ways to solve the problem”, the…
DetailsIn 2017 Metinvest expects the steel consumption to slow down to 7% after a 26% jump in 2016. Next year the market will total 4.415 million tons against 4.122 million tons in 2016 and 3.269 million tons in 2015. Bars consumption will grow by 4% YoY, to 1.562 million tons, of shapes – by 17%,…
DetailsIn January-November Ukrainian metal companies consumed 1.55 billion cubic meters of gas, down by 16% YoY. Average daily gas consumption totaled 4.6 million cubic meters against 5.5 million in January-November 2015. At the same time in November gas consumption increased by 10 million cubic meters MoM, to 155 million cubic meters. Average daily consumption totaled…
DetailsIngulets Mining and Processing Works has paid 2.07 million UAH to the state budget for not keeping state assets. According to the State Property Fund, the local department checked the state property not taken from InGOK during privatization and kept by it. For not keeping 7 objects of the state property InGOK was fined for…
DetailsInterpipe has won a tender for the delivery of tyres to Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways). The auction was held on December 8, with two companies participating. “The expected price of tyres was over 44.5 million UAH, but thanks to the auction we were able to decrease it to 42 million. Another important aspect is that the…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has estimated its losses in January-June from the cooperation with Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) on the level of 217 million UAH. “In 6 months we have lost 217 million UAH because of Ukrzaliznytsia. And Ukraine has lost 45 million UAH of taxes. Ukrzaliznytsia operation is damaging business”, the company CEO Paramjit Kahlon said.…
DetailsNorilsk Nickel Group and VDM Metals GmbH, the world’s leading producer of specialty steels and nickel alloys, announce a major 5-year contract for the supply of nickel. VDM Metals will use this nickel to manufacture high nickel content alloys for the oil and gas, chemical, petroleum, automotive and other industries. The contract was signed on…
DetailsOn December 12, Lvivugol received 34 million UAH for products sold.
“All this money will be spent to pay salary to miners. Thanks to this money, they will be paid 80% of their October salary”, the first deputy of the Lviv regional state administration chairman Rostislav Zamlinsky said. (Ukrainian metal)
On December 1-11, coal stocks at the thermal power plants totaled 1.948 million tons, up by 110 thousand tons YoY.
Of them 928 thousand tons are of anthracite coal, including 140 thousand tons at Lugansk TPP.
Gas-grade coal stocks total 1.02 million tons, with 114 thousand tons at Burshtyn TPP. (Ukrainian metal)
ArcelorMittal Temirtau has completed the cycle of its blast furnace modernization. According to the company statement, its blast furnaces No. 2, 3 and 4 can now produce 14 thousand tons of pig iron per day. AMT plans to increase steel output to 6 million tons per year. BF No. 4 modernization allows increasing steel output…
DetailsFrom the beginning of the year Dalpolymetall produced 36.5 thousand tons of concentrate.
According to the company statement, in November it produced 1.2 thousand tons of lead concentrate and 1.7 thousand tons of zinc concentrate valued at 221.5 million rubles.
In January-November Dalpolymetall sold 2.5 billion rubles worth of products. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-November Izhstal, a part of Mechel, produced 346 thousand tons of rolled metal, up by 48% YoY. According to the company statement, steel smelting went up by 30% YoY, to 237 thousand tons, with rolled metal output up by 33% YoY, to 315 thousand tons. Sales volumes increased by 53%. The increase in output…
DetailsIn January-November the shortage of scrap in Ukraine reached 582 thousand tons. During 11 months Ukrainian metal companies received 2.9 million tons of scrap, with their need at 3.5 million tons. The main reason for the shortage is the record low scrap procurement – 3.1 million tons, down by 22% YoY, and by 36.3% than…
DetailsInterpipe has appointed new sales directors for CIS, EU, North and South America. According to the company statement, Vera Smal has been appointed CIS sales director. She has been working for Interpipe for 13 years. Daniel Valk is now responsible for North and South America sales. Previously he worked as the general director of Poltava…
DetailsIn January-October Russian steel exports totaled 35.563 million tons, up by 3% YoY. Exports to far foreign countries accounted for 31.127 million tons. Ferrous metals exports (apart from pig iron, ferroalloys, waste and scrap) totaled 24.131 million tons, up by 4.6% YoY. Far foreign countries imported 20.859 million tons of ferrous metals. Semi-finished carbon steel…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to invest over $100 million into the construction of the new continuous casting machine. “We plan to build another CCM with the total capacity of 1.4 million tons per year. This requires investments in the amount of $100 million. And that’s just one of the investment projects we want to implement…
DetailsIn 2016 ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to produce 7 million tons of steel. “That’s up by 10% of the plan”, the company CEO Paramjit Kahlon said. According to him, despite the high output capacities, the company experiences difficulties with raw material deliveries. In particular, AMKR has to import coal, coke and lime, as it can’t…
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