Mechel-Service has supplied over 2 thousand tons of rolled metal for the construction of a road junction on the M-5 Ural road. Most of the metal used in construction is rebars of 35GS and 25G2S steel grade produced by Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works. The plant will soon produce and ship a batch of welded…
DetailsIn late 2018 a delegation of Yekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Works visited Uzbekistan. The members of the company met with the representatives of two mining and processing works, cement manufacturer and continuous basalt fiber enterprise. The latter is already a customer of EZOTsM. The company intends to increase exports to Uzbekistan at least 2-2.5-fold. The…
DetailsCherepovets Iron and Steel Works has finished a series of capital repairs in its steel manufacture. In particular, the company has repaired continuous casting machines Nos. 1, 3 and 5, rotary kiln No. 5 and the ladle furnace No. 1. Moreover, while repairing the converter No. 2, an investment project has been carried out thanks…
DetailsMagnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works turns 87. The birthday of the Russian metal giant is February 1, 1932, when the first pig iron was produced at the first blast furnace. In a year MMK added open-hearth manufacture and started producing steel. In August 1934 the mill-500 was commissioned. In 2018 MMK produced 12.7 million tons…
DetailsSpecialists have started assembling and welding the first belt of the blast furnace No. 3 jacket at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. Metal structures for the jacket have been produced by Vitkovice, the Czech Republic. Rolled metal for the jacket was produced at the mill-5000 in Kolpino. With the new jacket the blast furnace will…
DetailsDonetsk Iron and Steel Works could again suspend operation. According to a well-known blogger, ex-terrorist Yevgeniy Tinyansky, who is now in the opposition to the current authorities of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization created and supported by Russia, he has information that because of the lack of raw materials the blast furnace…
DetailsThe Teghut mine might get re-launched, according to Minister of Economic Development and Investments Tigran Khachatryan. When asked about the chances of Teghut resuming operations, the minister said: “Yes, there is hope, nothing is hindering them to start restoration works after clarifying their relations with the bank,” he said. In 2017, Teghut produced and exported…
DetailsIn 2018 Metalloinvest produced 5.1 million tons of steel, up by 6.2% YoY. Pig iron manufacture grew by 12.6%, to 3 million tons. HVA products sales share was 43%. In 2018 Metalloinvest produced 40.4 million tons of iron ore, up by 0.2% YoY, and in Q4 – 10.3 million tons, up by 3.5% QoQ. The…
DetailsIn 2018 combined coal output at all Raspadskaya Coal Company LLC enterprises increased by 11%, to 12.7 million tons. In particular, the Raspadsky pit increased mining by 26%, and Raspadskaya-Koksovaya – by 297%. Raspadskaya mine extracted 6 million tons of coal. Coal concentrate sales increased by 7%, to 7.4 million tons. Coal sales grew by…
DetailsThe Cabinet of Ministers could provide 450 million UAH to pay for electric energy consumed by state coal mining enterprises in 2019. According to the Cabinet order, these expenses will be covered from the state budget reserve fund. Because of large debts of state mines for electricity there are no companies wanting to supply it…
DetailsIn 2018 Evraz decreased steel output by 7.3% YoY, to 13 million tons. The main reason of the decrease was the sale of Evraz DMZ in March 2018, as well as a drop of output at Evraz ZSMK due to the capital repair of the blast furnace No. 3 in August-December 2018 and an accident…
DetailsIn 2018 Ukraine decreased rolled metal exports by 1.17% YoY, to 14.415 million tons. 78.5% of all rolled metal manufactured last year were exported. In 2017 the share was 79.6% (14.59 million tons out of 18.33 million tons). Semi-finished products accounted for 43.64% or 6.291 million tons (43.14% last year). The share of flat metal…
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