Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works, a part of Mechel, has carried out the scheduled repair of its 2300 hot-rolling mill.
The overhaul has been conducted by the works’ employees.
The scheduled repairs will ensure the stable and effective operation of the mill until the next overhaul. (Ukrainian metal)
Lipetsk Gipromez, one of the largest engineering and project design companies in the Russian metals and mining industry and part of NLMK Group, has been rebranded and renamed NLMK Engineering. The changes to the company’s name, logo and strategic positioning are a reflection of the extensive development it has undertaken over the last two years.…
DetailsPJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to purchase each premises located at Lavrenyova and Chystopilska streets (also known as “Zhukovka village”) in Saksahanskiy district of Kriviy Rih at the price of UAH 450 thousand. In general, this is 32 single-story dwelling houses and outbuildings constructed in 1950-1955, located in dangerous zone of ground motion due to…
DetailsResidents of Batken region opposed development of Shambesai gold deposit. The State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use tried to tell them about the advantages of the project. Representatives of Z-Explorer Company held a presentation of Shambesai project with explanation of the proposed technology for development of the field and measures for environmental protection,…
DetailsMetal and metal wares share in the total exports to far foreign countries reached 9.1% in January 2017 (8% year ago). According to the Federal Customs Service, the monetary volume of the exports grew by 66.4% YoY, and physical – by 12%. Copper and copper alloys exports increased 2.2-fold, aluminum – by 17.6%, iron and…
DetailsA new long face has been put into operation at the mine named after Lenin, operating within the Yuzhny Kuzbass coal company. The reserves of the long face are estimated at 369 thousand tons of coking coal. The length of the long face is 120 meters. The coal will be supplied to Russian iron and…
DetailsIn January the share of metal and wares in the imports from far foreign countries totaled 5.3% (5.4% in 2016), with monetary volume up by 34.4% YoY, and physical volume – by 36.8%. According to the Federal Customs Service, ferrous metals imports increased by 39.5%, with pipe imports down by 24.3%, and iron and alloyed…
DetailsThe Russian court has arrested the ex-general manager of Severstal Vadim Larin in his absence on the accusation of bribing during the state checks of the company mines in Vorkuta. At present the Investigation committee of the Komi Republic has no information of his whereabouts. In early February it was believed he was in UK.…
DetailsThe chairman of the government Dmitry Medvedev believes that metal structures for ski lifts at ski resorts, which are currently imported, could be produced in Russia. “We understand that the whole number of structures, including metal structures, used in lifts, we purchase abroad at high price. It’s quite possible to produce them here”, he said.…
DetailsIn 2017 Electrozinc, a part of UMMC, will invest 476 million rubles (up by 19% YoY) into the repair, replacement of the old and purchase of new equipment. Maintenance repairs of 420 objects including 23 capital repairs have been scheduled this year at Electrozinc. Their cost is 340 million rubles. 136 million rubles will be…
DetailsSeverstal will invest 22 billion rubles into the development of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works and other Severstal Russian Steel assets. According to the company statement, 55% of the amount will be invested in the maintenance projects, the major of which is the reconstruction of the coking battery No. 4. The rest will be spent…
DetailsThe L5-UM Larssen sheet piling produced at Evraz NTMK is used in the reconstruction of the Magadan trade seaport berths. The deliveries commenced in February. By May the works will have shipped 3 thousand tons of sheet piling to the Far East. The Larssen sheet piling is the unique product of Evraz NTMK, no other…
DetailsA new plant for the production of metalware for industrial use is planned for construction on the territory of the Free Economic Zone Angren. Memorandum on the project was signed in the framework of the Uzbek-Turkish business forum between management of the FEZ Angren and Director of DAL Teknik Makina Sanayi Ve Tigaret AnonimSirketi Gaudet…
DetailsProblems of Makmal reached the walls of the Parliament. Last week, the state of affairs at the gold mine was discussed by the parliamentarians of the committee on the fuel and energy complex and subsoil use. It was also attended by the head of Kyrgyzaltyn Almaz Alimbekov. He said that Makmal reserves were depleted. With…
DetailsZaporozhye Titanium and Magnesium Works has ordered magnesium valued at 43.85 million UAH from Titan Ukrainy LLC. By the end of the year the company will have supplied 406 tons of MG-90 magnesium at 108 thousand UAH per ton. In August 2016 the same company sold it 28% cheaper to ZTMK – at 77.23 thousand…
DetailsIn February Zaporozhogneupor increased unmolded refractories output by 18% YoY.
The company produced 720 tons of unmolded refractories, in particular 181 tons of refractory concretes and masses and 539 tons of insulating and slag mixes.
In January-February Zaporozhogneupor increased output by 35% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-February Ukraine exported 1.116 million tons of carbon steel semi-finished products, valued at $409.31 million, down by 12.1% and up by 36.6% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main consumers were Italy (19.83%), Egypt (19.77%) and Turkey (19.24%). At the same time Ukraine imported 717 tons of steel semis valued at…
DetailsIn 2016 DTEK mined 33.2 million tons of coal, or 74.33% of all the coal mined in Ukraine. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, last year Ukraine mined 44.68 million tons of coal, with 5 million tons being coking coal and 39.68 million tons – power-generating coal. DTEK Pavlogradugol yielded the largest…
DetailsIn January-February Ukraine imported 184.376 thousand tons of manganese ore and concentrate valued at $28.457 million, up by 69.6% and 2.2-fold YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, the South African Republic (61.36%), Ghana (35.1%) and Gabon (2.37%) were the main suppliers. At the same time Ukraine has sharply decreased manganese ore and concentrate…
DetailsIn January-February Ukraine imported 2.46 million tons of coal valued at $357.59 million. According to the State Fiscal Service, Russia supplied $247.24 million worth of coal, or 69.1% of the total imports, USA – $65.4 million (18.3%), and Kazakhstan – $20.45 million (5.7%). Other countries supplied 6.9% of all coal, or $24.51 million. Coal imports…
DetailsIn February the Vostochnaya processing factory of ArcelorMittal Temirtau started the pilot project on concentrate output increase. With 210 thousand tons according to the business-plan, the shortest month in the year saw 225.1 thousand tons of concentrate produced. In January the plan was overfulfilled by 7 thousand tons, in February – by 15 thousand tons,…
DetailsIn 2017 Mechel-Service plans to sell over 2 million tons of rolled metal (1.9 million tons in 2016) and open at least two new divisions. “We will be using the combined strategy – expand sales geography and increase client base, as well as improve servicing. This year we intend to take part in all major…
DetailsVSMPO-Avisma has signed the acceptance report on the new ring-rolling mill to make products of titanium alloys for engine manufacturing.
With the new mill the corporation will be able to produce titanium rings with highly complex outer and inner sections. The mill can produce rings with up to 3500 mm diameter. (Ukrainian metal)
The net profit of TMK in 2016 reached $166 million as opposed to $368 million of losses in 2015. According to the company statement, its revenues decreased by 19.1%, to $3.33 billion, with gross profit down by 16.7%, to $704 million. EBITDA dropped by 18.6%, to $530 million. Net profit in Q4 2016 totaled $84…
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