In January-June Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant produced 8.8 thousand tons of nickel, up by 0.3% YoY. In particular, the company processed 704277 tons of ore (down by 0.3% YoY), which equals 39709 tons of ferronickel (down by 19.8% YoY), or 8.8 thousand tons of nickel. The company carried an overhaul of the main technical equipment valued…
DetailsThe largest global aluminum producer Rusal wants to supply all the metal produced to Russia in the long run, Sales Director for Russia and CIS Roman Andryushin said.
Rusal expects aluminum consumption to grow from 1.4 million tons per year at present to 2.5 million tons by 2024, the manager said. (TASS/Ukrainian metal)
In 2016 Poltava Mining and Processing Works intends to slightly increase pellets output from the last year level of 11.6 million tons. According to PGOK chairman Victor Lotous, in the first half of the year the company decreased overall pellets output, but increased pellets output of its own ore by 200 thousand tons YoY. He…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 308 641 370 370 May 419 705 504 558 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsIn January-June Severniy Mining and Processing Works produced 4.65 million tons of pellets, up by 13.2% YoY. According to the company statement, concentrate output dropped by 0.8% YoY, to 6.26 million tons. In June SevGOK produced 750 thousand tons of pellets and 983 thousand tons of concentrate down from 812 thousand tons and 1.01 thousand…
DetailsIn January-June Interpipe Steel produced 304 thousand tons of steel, up by 5.2% YoY. According to the company statement, in June the works produced 61 thousand tons of steel up from 51 thousand in May. In 2015 Interpipe Steel produced 596 thousand tons of steel, down by 32% YoY. Because of the lack of scrap,…
DetailsSupervisory board of Ingulets Mining and Processing Works has extended the office of the acting general director Alexander Gerasimchuk by 8 and half months from July 16, 2016 till April 3, 2017. The ex-managing director of Evrazruda A. Salkov was appointed InGOK CEO from August 21, 2013 till April 4, 2014. At the end of…
DetailsIn 2016 Ferrexpo-owned Yeristovo Mining and Processing Works plans to keep production on the level of 2015 – at 15 million tons of ore. Output volumes depend on orders from Ferrexpo and Poltava GOK, where this ore is turned into pellets. EGOK cannot process ore by itself as yet. Fe content in the EGOK-mined ore…
DetailsIn August Ukrainian metal companies might decrease steel and rolled metal output by 4.5% and 5.3% MoM, to 2.1 million and 1.8 million tons respectively. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, pig iron output will remain on July levels – 2.1 million tons. In January-June steel output went up by 10% YoY, to 12.41 million tons, that of…
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Supervisory board of Zakarpatvtormet has dismissed Alexander Alyaniy from the office of the chairman and general director. He also occupied the same office in Ternopolvtormet. Yuri Osipenko has been appointed instead. Osipenko used to work in Azovstal and Metinvest. Ternopolvtormet appointed Alyaniy in July 2015. Metalinvest Ltd owns 90.5459% of Ternopolvtormet and 98.0236% of Zakarpatvtormet.…
DetailsIn January-June Ukrainian metal companies consumed 860 million cubic meters of gas, down by 20% YoY. In June gas consumption totaled 125 million cubic meters, down by 12% MoM, or by 17 million cubic meters. In H1 daily average gas consumption was on the level of 4.7 million cubic meters, as opposed to 6 million…
DetailsSeverstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, announced its operational results for Q2 & H1 2016. Hot metal output decreased by 6% QoQ to 2.21 million tons (2.35 million tons in Q1) mainly impacted by short-term maintenance of BF No. 5 at Cherepovets Steel Mill (CherMK) during the quarter.…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 328 471 344 354 May 337 622 431 518 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsThe first lawsuits against Interpipe NMTZ, Niko Tube and NTZ Alfa-Bank filed in August and September 2015. The bank wanted $5.7 million according to loan agreements of 2013 and $9 million and 41 million euro according to loan agreements of 2012. Interpipe had to return the debt by March 2015. But didn’t manage to. “Last…
DetailsMetinvest has to spend over $300 million to make its mining and processing works correspond to the European standards. “Some pollutions at our companies are already within the European norms, so we can only welcome the implementation of the European environmental standards in Ukraine. But it’s a long way, we have just passed a small…
DetailsEcology and natural resources minister of Ukraine Ostap Semerak has visited Zaporizhstal and has been shown the modernization processes: sintering machine No. 5 gas-purifying system construction, as well as the already working gas-purifiers at sintering machines No. 1-4; sand bed exsufflation system of the blast furnace No. 4, as well as the hydrochloric acid digestion…
DetailsIn January-June Ukraine imported $24.91 million worth of copper and copper wares, up by 14.9% YoY. According to the State Fiscal Service, copper exports dropped by 50.8% YoY, to $35.14 million. In June Ukraine imported $4.88 million worth of copper wares, while exports reached $5.8 million. Nickel imports in H1 decreased by 12.9% YoY, to…
DetailsOn July 10, Krasnolimanskaya yielded 1 millionth ton of coal since the year start.
“This is the 120-th million of coal since the mine started working”, said the company director Alexander Dubovik. (Ukrainian metal)
Month Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 121 148 140 145 May 121 148 141 146 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsDniepropetrovsk Iron and Steel Works named after Komintern (Kominmet) has dismissed Andrei Mouchkin from the office of the deputy chairman. According to the company station, Mouchkin resigned from his position. He has been in the office since April 22, 2015. None has been appointed in his place as yet. In 2015 Kominmet received 197.52 million…
DetailsZaporizhstal has turned on the gas-purifying equipment at its sintering machine No. 5. “We have put the gas-purifier at SM5 in time, as promised and immediately started constructing the last one – No. 6. We have to build it in three months and complete the ecological modernization of the sinter factory”, said the company CEO…
DetailsOn July 7, Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works put into operation its blast furnace No. 5, and is now operating two BFs. According to a company representative, the works produces some 2.5 thousand tons of pig iron daily. BF3 was put into operation on July 3. In January-June AMK produced 694 thousand tons of rolled…
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* – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. (Ukrainian Metal)