NLMK Group announces the launch of its new Strategy 2022 and changes to its dividend policy. Strategy 2022 targets net gains of +$1.25 billion to EBITDA per annum, with $0.5 billion from operational efficiency programs that require no additional capex. Strategy 2022 is based on enhancing NLMK Group’s competitive advantages. Through operational efficiency initiatives and…
DetailsCoal produced in Russia-occupied Donbas, Eastern Ukraine, is shipped not only to Russia but also to Turkey and countries in Europe, namely the European Union member states, without the latter’s knowing that, as shipping documents are falsified to show that the coal is of allegedly Russian origin. “This does not mean that these countries intentionally…
DetailsIn 2019, Italy will become a new export destination for Azerbaijan’s Ganja Aluminum Plant, a source at the company reported. The source noted that presently, almost all of the plant’s production was exported. “The company’s products are exported to a number of European countries and the former USSR countries, and in the coming months, exports…
Details“Downgrading of the State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use of Kyrgyzstan to an agency will bury the mining industry,” Chairman of the Mining and Metallurgical Trade Union Eldar Tadzhibaev declared. According to him, proposals on creation of an independent Ministry of Energy and the restoration of the State Agency for Geology and Mineral…
DetailsIn January Russia produced 4.15 million tons of pig iron, down by 7.8% YoY (4.715 million tons in December 2018). Ukraine, no longer a part of CIS, decreased pig iron output by 9.6%, to 1.789 million tons (1.832 million tons). Kazakhstan produced 250 thousand tons of pig iron, down by 20.4% (260 thousand tons). All…
DetailsIn 2019 Beringpromugol LLC plans to extract 750 thousand tons of coal in Chukotka. The company will be developing the Fandyushkinskoye field deposit. Last year the company received a license to prospect and extract at the Zapadniy site till September 2038, as well as prolonged its license for the Levoberezhniy site till 2038. In 2018…
DetailsOn March 1 Belarus Iron and Steel Works put into operation a new machine to produce metal cord for bulk and extremely bulk tyres. The GCR machine was assembled in the steel wire shop No. 2. This is the only shop at the company to produce such a cord. It has improved strength because of…
DetailsThe Uralelectromed powder shop has received a new Gecam mill. The mill processes the surface of wares made of copper powder. Previously wares were treated manually. The machine will do it 3-4 times faster and is expected to process some 20 to 30 thousand spare parts per month. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko took part in the launch of a continuous casting machine No. 4 of the Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. “I was pleased to learn that the company had a sharp increase in wages in the second half of 2018. And the average salary at the enterprise is UAH 18,000 ($670).…
DetailsVerkhovna Rada has approved as a whole the decree to decrease the ferrous scrap shortage on the domestic market by increasing the scrap export duty from 42 euro to 48 euro per ton and prolonging it for three years. 234 members of the Parliament voted in favor of the decree. This is the third decree.…
DetailsCherepovets Iron and Steel Works has been smelting steel for 10 years. On March 1, 2009, the converter shop, electric arc furnace shop and limestone-dolomite shop were united into the steel-smelting manufacture. In 10 years the combined output of converter and electric steel exceeded 110 million tons. In 2018 the company produced 9.9 million tons.…
DetailsThis year Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) intends to actively sell scrap and outdated cars and earn some 2 billion UAH. Since late 2018 Ukrzaliznytsia has started selling scrap via the Prozorro.Sales program. At that time the company put its first four lots for sale with the combined initial cost of 260 million UAH. In January the…
DetailsThe bar rolling shop No. 2 of the Uzbekistan Iron and Steel Works is finishing the project to organize manufacture of carbon steel rolled wire. The main machinery has already been assembled at the mill-300. Commissioning is scheduled for April 15. As the result of the project the company will be able to produce rolled…
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