Volnogorsk Mining and Processing Works has ordered BelAZ Technocenter LLC the delivery of 51.73 million UAH worth of trucks.
This year the company will supply 6 quarry dump trucks BelAZ-75473 with the lifting capacity of 45 tons at 8.62 million UAH apiece. The trucks must have been manufactured not earlier than in 2011. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-May Azerbaijan obtained 1741.6 kg of gold, up 2.2-fold YoY.
According to the State Statistics Committee, in May gold output totaled 1369.5 kg, up from 187.2 kg in May 2016.
Last year Azerbaijan mined 1894.1 kg of gold, down by 15% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine has announced a tender for insurance services.
According to the company statement, a participant of the tender should be a legal entity, should have letters of recommendation and experience of working with iron and steel works. (Ukrainian metal)
Since the year start Zabaikalsky region has yielded 2001.02 kg of gold and 9.1 million tons of coal. In May the output was 1009.5 kg of gold and 1.3 million tons of coal. The region also produced 148.5 tons of tungsten concentrate, 3.1 thousand tons of lead and 776 tons of zinc. At present around…
DetailsThe Sredneuralsk Copper Works has finished the capital repair of its Vanukov furnace No. 2. The furnace has been put back in operation. The VF2 was shut down for the scheduled repairs in April, and the overhaul instead of 80 days lasted for 66 days. The cost of the repair was 184 million rubles. (Ukrainian…
DetailsYug-Profil works, a part of Yug-Met, specializing in the manufacture of various sections, has put in operation the third aluminum sections extrusion line.
According to the company statement, it can now produce aluminum sections of all sizes.
With the third line operating Yug-Profil’s capacity will reach 1 thousand tons per month. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-May Russia produced 25.1 million tons of rolled metal, up by 1.1% YoY. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in May output decreased by 1.8% YoY and by 2.1% MoM. Pig iron output in January-May was 21.7 million tons, down by 0.2% YoY. Pipe companies increased output by 10.2% YoY and by…
DetailsNLMK has started implementing the program of gradual replacement of heat-exchanging machinery at the heating furnaces No. 3-5 of the 2000 hot-rolling mill. The furnaces are used to heat steel slabs before rolling. To decrease heat losses and the fuel expenses, the air is heated in heat exchanger by gases from the furnace. The replacement…
DetailsIn January-May steel structures output totaled 1.6 million tons, up by 11.3% YoY.
According to the press-service of the Federal Service of State Statistics, aluminum constructions output increased by 12% YoY, to 22.6 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
Kazan Aviation Works has carried out modernization of its manufacturing premises.
The company used corrugated sheet produced by Stalnye Konstructsii.
Such sheets have improved bearing capacity. (Ukrainian metal)
By 2020 Almaznaya mine of DTEK Dobropolyeugol intends to mine 1.5 million tons of coal per year. At present the enterprise is preparing to put a new line into operation. And a new conveyer, produced by Corum, will be installed there. The length of the conveyer is 260 meters. A similar one has been operating…
DetailsUkraine now has 180 thousand tons of anthracite coal more than last year. According to the minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik, at present the coal stocks are 2.7 million tons, in particular 2.2 million tons of gas-generating coal and 0.66 million tons of anthracite coal. “Last year as of this day we…
DetailsUralelectromed has finished repairing its container site and has put it into operation.
The need to repair the old site was caused by the increase of products for sale.
“The site size increased 3-fold, to 1716 square meters. It can now accomodate 206 large containers”, the company railroad shop director Vadim Duvanov said. (Ukrainian metal)
The state enterprise Yuzhnodonbasskoye No. 1 Mine Group (Donetsk region) has put into operation a new long face with the reserves of around 500 thousand tons. This will allow the enterprise to mine some 800 tons of coal per day. The face was prepared in May. The cost of the work was 39.2 million UAH,…
DetailsMariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works can decrease output because of the shortage of raw materials. “We still intend to increase output, but often it seems, that this is only our wish – out of 23-25 cargo trains through the Kamysh-Zarya route twice-promised by Wojciech Balczun, we in fact had 16 a day on May…
DetailsThe European Commission has imposed 5-year antidumping duties on construction rebars, produced in Belarus. The decision has been taken following the results of the antidumping investigation, which has shown that Belarus metal products have been sold in EU at a price 60% lower than the market price. The investigation started in March 2016, and in…
DetailsIn January-May Russia supplied 4.25 million tons of coal to Ukraine, and the total supplies this year are expected on the level of 10 million tons. Last year Russia supplied 10.11 million tons of coal to Ukraine, according to the Russian Ministry of energy. The Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine has asked…
DetailsSalary to Lviv Coal Company employees has not been paid since February, and the total debt now amounts to 18 million UAH. According to the chairman of the Independent Miners Union Mikhail Volynets, the situation is critical. The situation is made even more complex by the suits as to the bankruptcy of the company and…
DetailsShareholders of DTEK Pavlogradugol decided to pay 647.15 million UAH of dividends for 2016. The dividends will be paid from June 30 through October 20. In 2016 DTEK Pavlogradugol received 647.15 million UAH of net profits, up 3-fold, or by 420.87 million UAH YoY. Last year, according to the Ministry of energy and coal industry,…
DetailsBy July Seligdar will have put the new gold-extracting factory at the Ryabinovoye deposits in Yakutia in operation and plans to mine at least 400 kg of gold there this year. Investments into the factory total 6.335 million rubles. The factory capacity is 1 million tons of ore per year. The factory will produce some…
DetailsLast year the export duty for scrap increased from 10 euro per ton to 30 euro. This has immediately affected the budget – taxes increased almost 2-fold. And much more raw materials stayed in the country. “At present Azovstal Iron and Steel Works is fully provided with scrap. Unfortunately a year ago the situation was…
DetailsIn April, according to the customs statistics, corrosion-resistant rolled metal imports reached 21.6 thousand tons, up by 2.4% MoM and by 18.7% YoY, valued at $50 million, up by 3.3% MoM and by 34.7% YoY. In January-April Russia imported 86.2 thousand tons of corrosion-resistant rolled metal valued at $182 million, up by 36% and by…
DetailsKazakhstan continues increasing exports. In January-April exports increased by 21%, or by $836 million. Metal product exports account for 54% of the total volume. The highest increase in prices was also noticed in the metal industry. China and Russia remain the main export markets, accounting for over 40% of all exports, up by 21% and…
DetailsIn May Vostsibugol mined 723 thousand tons of coal in Irkutsk region. Vostsibugol operates Cheremkhovugol, Tulunugol and Zhronsky open-pits. In May Cheremkhovugol mined 318.6 thousand tons of coal, Tulunugol – 340.4 thousand tons and Zheronsky – 63.8 thousand tons. In January-May Vostsibugol mined 4.496 million tons of coal, up by 2.6% YoY. This year the…
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