The Ministry of energy and coal industry has developed 4 projects on replacing anthracite coal mined in Donbass and has already implemented 2 of them. According to the energy and coal industry minister Igor Nasalik, one project will decrease anthracite coal consumption by at least 1 million tons. “This project is connected with the Rovno…
DetailsIn 2016 Zaporizhstal consumed 160 million cubic meters of gas, down by 22% YoY, or by 44 million cubic meters. According to the company, such results have been reached due to the complex energy-saving program across the company. “The major measure was the project on coking gas supply from Zaporozhkoks to Zaporizhstal shops”, the company…
DetailsChepets Mechanical Works, a part of TVEL, has shipped the first batch of titanium to a European customer. The delivery was carried out under the 5-year contract, signed in December 2016 with a major foreign distributor. “According to the agreement the ChMZ specialists have worked out a product portfolio that is in demand on the…
DetailsCoal stocks at Ukrainian thermal power plants on February 6-12, decreased by 4.9%, or by 79 thousand tons, to 1.53 million tons. Gas-group coal stocks dropped by 8.4%, or by 63 thousand tons, to 688 thousand tons (with 121 thousand tons at Burshtyn TPP). Anthracite coal stocks decreased by 1.8%, or by 16 thousand tons,…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal will produce 42 axles of horizontal rolls for ThyssenKrupp materials France S.A.S. The company press-service reports that the EMSS shops have already started working on the order. According to the agreement signed, EMSS will supply the axles weighing a total of 131.8 tons to France in April-May. In 2015 the company received 3.21 billion…
DetailsIn 2016 Russia imported 478 thousand tons of steel pipes, up by 17% YoY. According to the Federal Customs Service, far foreign countries supplied 190 thousand tons of pipes, down from 201 thousand tons in 2015. Steel pipes imports from CIS increased from 206 thousand tons to 288 thousand tons. On the whole metal imports…
DetailsIn 2016 Mechel produced 4.252 million tons of steel, down by 2% YoY. According to the company statement, pig iron output remained on 2015 level – 4.053 million tons, while coal mining dropped by 2%, to 22.683 million tons. In Q4 2016 Mechel increased coal output by 1% QoQ, to 5.6 million tons, that of…
DetailsThe minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik believes, that in 2-2.5 years Ukraine could completely stop using anthracite coal in energy sphere. According to him, the decision to switch thermal power plants from anthracite to gas-group coal was taken by the ministry after the coal supplies from the uncontrolled territories were stopped in…
DetailsIt is necessary to introduce the state of emergency in the energy sector if anthracite coal supplies are not resumed in the near future, Ukrenergo Acting CEO Vsevolod Kovalchuk has stated this at a meeting of the anti-crisis energy staff. “There are 842 thousand tons of anthracite coal reserves in the storage facilities of all…
DetailsState Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) has confirmed the fulfillment of investment obligations by ArcelorMittal Duisburg Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (owner of 95.13% shares of ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih) in 2016 according to Sale and Purchase Agreement. SPFU conducted the inspection at ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih on February 7-10. This is the 18th inspection of SPFU conducted directly at…
DetailsDimosenco Holdings, an affiliate of Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim group, has started collecting bids for 2.5% in aluminum giant UC RUSAL at a price of $200 million, a banking source reported. The offer is in the form of accelerated bookbuilding, which indicates that Onexim may increase it, the source said. VTB Capital acts as…
DetailsUkraine’s coal production is expected to increase by 60-80%, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has stated. “I look at the development of coal industry with optimism. We have set a task to increase coal production by almost 60-80%, and we will achieve this result by joint efforts,” Nasalyk said. According to him,…
DetailsThe program to purchase all the necessary things for Selidovugol new long faces will not be financed. This has been reported by the energy and coal industry minister Igor Nasalik, who has thanked the ministry working group for all the claims to the prices that have allowed to decrease the ministry expenses. He said that…
DetailsVIZ-Stal, a part of NLMK, has completed the first stage of transformer rolled metal thermal treatment machinery modernization. In particular, 8 new stands of bell furnaces have replaced outdated machinery, improving the reliability of the furnaces and decreasing expenses. Within the first stage of the modernization program 7% of all the stands at VIZ-Stal have…
DetailsIn 2016 Izhstal, a part of Mechel, increased deliveries to Belarusian MAZ by 71% YoY. Supplies to Spetsagro increased by 96%. Shipments to other major Belarusian companies also increased. In 2016 exports totaled 7.5% of Izhstal output. The company exported to 21 countries. Major importers were Belarus, Belgium, Kazakhstan, USA, Germany and France. Alloyed steel…
DetailsIn 2016 Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant, a part of Russian Copper Company, produced 122180.612 tons of copper cathodes, the record high result in the history of the company. The increase has been achieved thanks to the Karabashmed copper deliveries growth. The plant also produced 93729.629 tons of copper wire rods, or 21% of all the…
DetailsIn 2017 coal companies of Russia plan to export 175 million tons of coal, up by 10 million tons YoY.
In 2016 Russia mined 385 million tons of coal, with Kuzbass region yielding 227.4 million tons. 165 million tons were exported. (Ukrainian metal)
The Russian aide on image to the head of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic Alexander Kazakov said that Ukraine should pay for the coal received from the occupied territories of Donbass to the terrorist republics “budgets”. He said this following the comments of the Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman that Ukrainian power and metal industries…
DetailsDneprovsky Iron and Steel Works has asked the President of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko to help break the railroad blockade near the Svetlanovo-Shpilovo stations route in Lugansk region. According to the company letter, DMZ, Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, as well as Alchevsk Coke and Chemical Works pay taxes to the state budget. Last year they…
DetailsMetalloinvest announced the signing of an additional loan agreement with ING Bank. According to the terms of the agreement, the ING Bank has increased the limit of the company’s revolving credit line from $100 million to $150 million and extended the duration of the loan by two years. The bank has also improved the terms…
DetailsOn February 6, the South-Western Railroads, a subsidiary of Ukrzaliznytsia, held its first scrap auctions with the total value of 4.2 million UAH. The trade was announced on January 25. Only 2 companies participated: Nizhin Research and Mechanical Plant (NDMZ) and Trading House Budkom. The initial price of the auction was 5935 UAH per ton.…
DetailsNovotroitsk Plant of Chromium Compounds has invested 868.1 million rubles in construction of a ferroalloy production facility in the city of Novotroitsk, the Orenburg region government said in a statement. The annual production capacity of the new facility is 240 tons of degassed aluminothermal chrome in the form of tablets, 7.1 tons of metallurgic chrome…
DetailsIn 2016 Almalyk Mining and Processing Works manufactured an industrial machine to produce coal briquettes. The further works is underway.
In January the works produced and assembled 5 new machines. By May the company plans to have produced 61 units.
In January coalmining companies of the Siberian Coal and Power Company in Zabaikalsky Krai increased deliveries of coal by 11.6% YoY. The increase was the result of the grown demand from power companies, and miners even had to work during New Year holidays. In 2016 SUEK mined 4.4 million tons of coal, up by 208.8…
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