Some 90% of scrap, supplied to TMK companies, is provided by TMK Chermet.
Daily over 3 thousand tons of scrap are delivered to Seversk, Volzhsk and Taganrog works.
Since the start of the year TMK Chermet has been exceeding the delivery plans by 14% on average. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-June Severstal supplied over 315 thousand tons of rolled metal to Russian machine-building companies, up by 27% YoY. “The growth of the deliveries was the result of the metal consumption increase in some industry sectors, as well as the unique offer of Severstal to Russian machine-builders,” Severstal Russian steel sales director Yevgeniy Chernyakov said.…
DetailsThe prolongation of the 30 euro per ton export duty on scrap for 1 year is good for economy. According to the president of Ukrmetallurgprom Alexander Kalenkov, 1 ton of scrap processed into metal yields 5-6 times more to the budget than that ton exported. “Each ton of scrap not exported but turned into metal…
DetailsNLMK Group is embarking on the second stage of its project to implement High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR) technology at the Stoilensky beneficiation plant, NLMK Mining Division core asset. Four HPGRs were installed in 2016 at two of the four sections of the beneficiation plant. The HPGR technology, unparalleled in Russia, has delivered a 12.5%…
DetailsUC RUSAL has commissioned a $1.14 million two-stage gas purification unit at Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Smelter to make sodium sulfate used for production of pulp, glass and construction materials, the company said in a statement on August 3. The unit has been tested and made over 50 tons of the product. According to preliminary assessment, RUSAL…
DetailsDneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine has resumed manufacture of rolled metal – 50×50 angles and wire rod. The company has also resumed manufacture of billets for milling balls with the diameter of 40 mm. One ball mill has been put into operation. The rolling shop has enough scrap to operate. The sinter shop operates 4…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih received the most VAT returns in July among mining and metal companies. According to the State Treasury Service, AMKR was reimbursed 1.075 billion UAH, followed by Azovstal (707.7 million UAH) and Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works (493.6 million UAH). Most of VAT was reimbursed to the taxpayers of Kiev (4.9 billion…
DetailsIn January-July Irkutsk region yielded 11395 kg of gold, including 6543 kg of ore gold and 4852 kg of alluvial gold. Ore gold output decreased by 3% YoY, while that of alluvial rose by 2%. At present 3 companies mine for ore gold in the region. Pervenets, a part of Polyus, mined 3652 kg of…
DetailsIn January-June Severstal increased purchases of goods and services from small and medium enterprises of Vologda region by 1.7 billion rubles YoY. According to the company statement, total cost of products and services purchased in Vologda region constituted 10.6 billion rubles, up by 19% YoY. At present Severstal cooperates with almost 300 Vologda region companies.…
DetailsIn January-June Izhstal increased output and sales by 31% YoY. Metal sales reached 204 thousand tons. In particular the company produced 152 thousand tons of steel, up by 34% YoY, and 173 thousand tons of rolled metal, up by 13% YoY. High margin sales showed the most growth: alloyed products sales increased 1.6-fold, while speed…
DetailsUkraine should try not to take measures, which contradict the World Trade Organization principles and the DCFTA, for example, the imposing of export duties on metal scrap. “The EU doesn’t see the prolongation of the additional export duty on scrap as positive. This is a fundamental issue”, the chairman of Ukraine support group in the…
DetailsIn June world pig iron manufacture increased by 2.1% YoY, to 99.603 million tons, according to the World Steel Association. China remains the world leader with 61.678 million tons of pig iron produced in June. Ukraine is on the 9th position, having produced 1.52 million tons of pig iron. In January-June Ukraine produced 10.957 million…
DetailsPJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih continues the work on relocation of the citizens out of the zone of probable ground motion on Saksahanskiy district of Kriviy Rih city and the company is ready to purchase each premises located at Lavrenyova and Chystopilska streets (“Zhukovka village”), at price of UAH 425 thousand under condition of execution of…
DetailsThe board of directors of RusHydro may discuss participation in projects of aluminum giant UC RUSAL in August, RusHydro CEO Nikolai Shulginov reported on August 3. “So far no decision has been made. We will submit it to the next meeting of the board in autumn. So far we’ve only held a meeting of the…
DetailsCargo throughput at St. Petersburg based Neva-Metal container / general cargo terminal in January-July edged up by 1% YoY, to nearly 1,8 million tons, the stevedoring company reported. In the seven-month period container traffic at the terminal totaled nearly 55,000 TEUs. CJSC Neva-Metal is a part of a transport division of Severstal Russian Steel of…
DetailsRussia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service will toughen control over coal producers’ registration of over-the-counter sales of steam coal, the service said in a statement on August 2. The service said citing Deputy Head Anatoly Golomolzin that the failure of companies to duly register the deals prevented the market from forming a liquid price index for steam…
DetailsAccording to the chairman of the Lugansk regional military-civilian administration Yuri Garbuz, the Lisichanskugol monthly salary fund has been paid to the miners. “The Ministry of energy and coal industry is keeping its promise – the salary has been paid”, he said. The chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets hopes that…
DetailsMariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has started the next stage of the large investment project – the assembly of the roof metal structures of the fourth continuous casting machine building. “1.5 thousand tons of metal structures have been assembled so far”, the manager of the project Vladimir Kozlovsky reported. Foundation is also laid for…
DetailsOn August 5 Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine intends to put its blast furnace No. 12 into operation. DMK has already started operating 2 of its blast furnaces having put into operation BF9. In July the works operated BF1M in its blast furnace shop. 3 sintering machines are working at the sinter shop No. 2.…
DetailsIn January-June direct deliveries of ferrous metals to Russian sea and river ports via railroad totaled 10.8 million tons. That’s 1.9% higher YoY and the highest result for the past 9 years. Novorossiysk Sea Trade Port received 4.4 million tons, down by 10.8% YoY. Port Nakhodka – 1.81 million tons, up by 16%, St. Petersburg…
DetailsThe ChTPZ Group has started modernizing its oil pipe manufacture. Investments total 200 million rubles. The machinery modernization will allow the group to double its OCTG output with premium joints. The program will have been carried out by the end of Q1 2018. “This investment project will allow ChTPZ to improve quality and increase output.…
DetailsNorilsk Nickel has reevaluated the reserves of the Bystrinskoye deposits in the Zabaikalye region.
According to a company representative, combined ore and metal reserves increased by 10-25%. After the reevaluation copper reserves have increased by 11%, to 2.3 million tons, gold by 25%, to 9.5 million ounces. (Ukrainian metal)
Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has produced 500 thousand tons of rails since its rail-beam mill has started operating. Most of the rails – some 90% – were sent to the Russian Railways. In 2016 the Railways received 270 thousand tons of rails, this year it is planned to supply 330 thousand tons. ChMK rails…
DetailsThe president of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko has signed the decree No. 6382 to prolong for a year the export duty on ferrous scrap in the amount of 30 euro per ton, earlier adopted by the Verkhovnaya Rada. According to the VR committee on industrial policy chairman Victor Galasyuk, thus an additional margin of safety was…
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