The Kaltan open-pit mine yielded the 100-millionth ton of coal. This is the result of Osinikovskoye and Kaltansky field miners operation since each field has been put into operation. The Kaltan open-put mine was created in 2009 by merging Kaltansky open-pit and Osinnikovsky open-pit. The first ton of Osinnikovsky coal was mined in 1980, and…
DetailsKraft Group is carrying out regular deliveries of rolled metal for the construction of the Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line of the Moscow subway.
The metal is supplied to the construction sites from the Ramenki station to the Novoperedelkino station. The company supplies rebars, wire, mesh, pipes and shapes. (Ukrainian metal)
The Stupino Metallurgical Company, Moscow region, has finished assembling and put into operation the new soaking pit, which now operates together with the first pit, put into operation in 2014. The new pit replaced 2 outdated annealing furnaces, disassembled in shop No. 520. They didn’t comply with the modern requirements on energy efficiency and product…
DetailsOver 6 thousand tons of double tees made by Evraz NTMK were used in the construction of the large housing complex in the “Legends Park” in Moscow. In Q1 the company will supply 1.7 thousand tons more. The usage of the double tees in the project allows applying the steel frame construction technique, which is…
DetailsIn 2016 Russia exported 22.4 tons of gold, down by 43% YoY, while the output remained on the previous year level. Though there is still no data on January-November 2016 output the Union of gold-miners expects the figure to be on the level of 295-297 tons. Central bank bought the most gold on the local…
DetailsIn 2016 Nikolaev Alumina Works produced 1.51 million tons of alumina, up by 2% YoY. In Q4 2016 the company produced 407 thousand tons of alumina, up by 12.3% QoQ. Under the project to increase alumina output to 1.7 million tons the works invested $7 million in 2016. This year NGZ intends to keep increasing…
DetailsUralelectromed, a part of UMMC, has finished the repairs of its shaft kiln, one of the main equipments to produce wire rod. The repair cost around 10 million rubles. According to the department director Maxim Prosvetov, the repair was carried out in 20 days. 80 tons of refractory materials were used in the kiln modernization.…
DetailsThe town of Avdiivka, Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Works and the Donetsk filtering plant have been cut off the electricity grid following the shelling. “One of the two water-heating boilers is operating, we will be providing heat but at a lower volume”, the company CEO Musa Magomedov reported. On January 30, the plant was completely…
DetailsIn January Russian manufacturers increased prices by 12.7% YoY. According to Rosstat, the highest increase was observed in iron ore prices – by 21.7%. Machinery and equipment for metal industry increased in price by 16.8%, quarrying machinery – by 15.8%. Copper prices went up by 6%, pig iron, steel and ferroalloys – by 4.6% on…
DetailsThe Apollo metal structures works (Samara) has finished delivering structures for the booster compressor plant at the Sharkiy Berdakh oil-and-gas deposits (Uzbekistan). The company has supplied cable rack and pillars for units. The weight of the structures totaled 171 tons. The Sharkiy Berdakh is being developed by Uzbekneftegaz, which is constructing the booster compressor plant…
DetailsThe governor of the Rostiv region Vasily Golubev has visited the Aluminiy Metallurg Rus works in the Belokalitvensky district. According to the press-service of the regional government, after the owner changed at the works in 2015 and with the help of the state support the company has been implementing several investment projects. Having become 100%…
DetailsTraders working with MMK report that the management of the company’s sales services plans to review the earlier announced March prices on flat rolled metal by increasing them by 2-3%. The increase is explained by the sharp rise of raw materials prices and the world market rolled metal price growth. The increase in prices for…
DetailsThe repair service of the Kosogorsky Iron and Steel Works (Tula) has completed a number of overhauls in the shops and the plant’s divisions and continues carrying out all the rest of the scheduled repairs. The blast furnace No. 3 saw the replacement of the skip; bins No. 10 and 29 have been repaired at…
DetailsThe governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev visited the town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, where the iron and steel works with the capacity of 160 thousand tons of hot-rolled rebars per year has been constructing since 2013. The project is built in stages. The first stage, providing the construction of the energy substation, was finished last…
DetailsIn 2016 Kazakhstan reduced exports of silver, however revenues grew and the country earned $584 million. Export volume in physical terms decreased by 8.8%, but in monetary terms it increased by 21.2%. In 2016 export of unprocessed or semi-finished silver and silver powder reached 1.17 thousand tons valued at $584.6 million. Kazakhstan’s main partner is…
Details5 plants will be opened in Karaganda region this year, the regional akim (governor) Nurmukhambet Abdibekov said. In particular, copper leaching and refractory materials plants will be constructed. The new companies will be created under the Entrepreneurship road map. “10 projects will be implemented under the roadmap. Aside from the roadmap we will also create…
DetailsGiessenhause has started the construction of the aluminum alloys works in Pavlodar region, the regional akim (governor) Vulat Bakauov reported. The enterprise will serve as the base for creation of the aluminum cluster and the manufacture of automobile disks, sections, sheets, wire and plates of aluminum alloys. “80% of the products will be exported”, Bakauov…
DetailsIn 2017 Chelyabinsk Forge-and-Press Works intends to increase output by 23% YoY, to 8.1 billion rubles. “ChKPZ has implemented the large-scale efficiency improvement program, which will allow us saving 300 million rubles per year without much investments”, the company CEO Andrei Gartung said. In 2016 the works earned 6.6 billion rubles, up by 35% YoY.…
DetailsUkgazvydobuvannya has ordered Interpipe the delivery of steel pipes valued at 87.55 UAH. By the end of February, the company would have supplied seamless hot-deformed insulated pipes at 31-32 thousand UAH and arc-welded pipes of 720×8 mm at 28 thousand UAH. Interpipe did not decrease price during the auction, and so it was only 0.05%…
DetailsThe management of the Evraz Sukhaya Balka Mining and Processing Works claims it has neither not initiated and nor held the meeting at the State Geology Service of Ukraine. “The administration of Evraz Sukhaya Balka, as well as the management of other Evraz Ukrainian companies, have nothing to do with the strike. As far as…
DetailsIn 2016 Chelaybinsk Pipe Works and Pervouralsk Pipe Works shipped 1.713 million tons of pipes to customers, down by 15% YoY. The decrease is explained with the change in delivery schedule to Gazprom and the drop in demand. The largest decrease was in the large diameter pipes segment (27%). At the same time ChTPZ was…
DetailsIn January Kuzbass region mined 18.7 million tons of coal, up by 6.3% YoY. According to the regional coal industry department, energy coal mining reached 13.3 million tons, up by 3.9% YoY, coking coal – 5.4 million tons, up by 12.5% YoY. SUEK-Kuzbass increased output by 0.6 million tons YoY, Kiyzassk and Novokuznetsk site of…
DetailsArcelorMittal Temirtau plans to stabilize the situation with the sharp shortage of open cars necessary to transport raw materials and rolled metal within a month. The company started experiencing railroad car shortages in H2 2016. Kazakhstan used to attract some 12-15 thousand open cars from Russia each month, but now their number dropped to 3-4…
DetailsAfter a 6-months idleness Metal-group has resumed iron ore extraction at its Yakovlevsky mine in Belgorod region.
By March almost all employees have to be engaged in the work. Annual ore output is expected to increase to 100 thousand tons.
Since February 1, the operation started in limited volume, with 55% employees working. (Ukrainian metal)