Metalloinvest has signed an agreement with the authorities of the Kursk region and the town of Zheleznogorsk on social and economic partnership in 2019. According to the agreement, the company will invest over 1 billion rubles. “Mikhailovsky GOK is a driver of the regional economy. In 2018 the consolidated budget of the region received over…
DetailsIn order to expand the mineral and resource base of Kazakhmys Corporation in key regions, Kazakhmys Holding LLC has created a new prospecting company – Kazakhmys Barlau LLC. Galym Nurzhanov has been appointed the company CEO. The task of the company is to provide Kazakhmys with new deposits of copper with the combined reserves of…
DetailsCherepovets Iron and Steel Works has carried out a scheduled repair of its 5000-mill in the sheet-rolling shop. The repair lasted for 6 days. Investment in the project totaled 94 million rubles. The preparation for the repair began in late 2018. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsThe output of Chelyabinsk Zinc Works, a major facility of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC), amounted to 50,851 tons of commercial zinc, 239 tons of cadmium, and 1,729 tons of indium in January-March, the plant said in a statement. CEO Pavel Izbrekht attributed the result to upgrading. In 2018, the company invested 1.3…
DetailsOrmet has received a right to commission the second stage of the Djusinskiy pyrite-polymetallic ore mine. The construction lasted from March 2017 till February 2019. Investments in the project totaled some 500 million rubles. Since the start of operation Djusinskiy mine has already extracted 300 thousand tons of ore. The operation of the mine is…
DetailsLocal market is demonstrating low demand mostly due to elections. Since mid-March sales have been very low. Plate prices are stable, while rebars have grown in price by 200 UAH per ton. In central regions 8-10 mm rebars are traded at 16,350-16,650 UAH per ton EXW. 12-32 mm rebars grew in price to 16,100 UAH…
DetailsSukhaya Balka and Duferco have concluded an agreement on the delivery of iron sinter ore valued at 2.5 billion UAH ($93 million). The shareholders of the company on April 11 have to approve of the contract concluded on January 9. The shareholders also have to prolong 4 contracts on ore delivery. The value of each…
DetailsVolgograd Iron and Steel Works Krasniy Octyabr intends to put into operation the arc steel furnace No. 5 this month. “In March the works produced over 10 thousand tons of metal. In Q2 the capacity loading is planned on the March level. And the repaired arc furnace No. 5 will help achieve this”, the company…
DetailsKarelsky Okatysh will modernize one of its main transportation lines – the K-17 conveyer, which is able to transport 3.2 thousand tons of ore per hour. “It was partially modernized in February, when an old engine was replaced with a more powerful one, which increased the speed and efficiency”, the company said. The second stage…
DetailsIn 2018 Nadezhdinsky Iron and Steel Works received 1.32 billion rubles of net profit, up from 610.7 million rubles in 2017. This is also the highest result so far. At the same time, in 2016 the company received 1.2 billion rubles of net losses, in 2015 – 2 billion rubles and in 2014 – 4…
DetailsThis year Severniy Mining and Processing Works intends to buy 16 BelAZ trucks. 3 of them have already been commissioned. In one shift each dump truck will be able to transport around 800 cubic meters of rock. Until the end of the year the works will be operating 91 dump trucks. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn January-March Ferrexpo produced 2.538 million tons of pellets, down by 1.8% YoY. The decrease is due to the drop of 62% iron content pellets output – to 107.5 thousand tons from 149.9 thousand tons. At the same time the manufacture of 65% iron content pellets fell by 0.2%, to 2.431 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn 2018, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) contributed a total of 8.967 billion rubles to environmental causes, up by 27% YoY. Most of the investment in environmental safety went towards the construction of environmental facilities. Last year, this effort received 5.845 billion rubles. As a whole, MMK’s Environmental Program for 2018 consisted of 84…
DetailsNLMK Group has appointed Dmitry Kholkin to the newly created position of NLMK Group’s Vice President for Digital Transformation and IT. Previously, he served as Vice President for Digital Transformation. The new function is formed by merging digital transformation and IT practices. Elena Demyanova, NLMK Group’s former Vice President for the Development of Information Systems,…
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