Metinvest expects that the general manager of Ukrzaliznytsia Wojciech Balczun will work on the improvement of the company effectiveness. “We hope that all the tariff payments that Ukrzaliznytsia receives from metal companies, will be spent on fuel, spare parts and new locomotives, so that the company increases its effectiveness. The tariffs have been increased several…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to shut down its open-hearth manufacture when it completes its project of gas-purifying machine assembly at the converter shop. “The operation of the open-hearth furnace was closely connected with the gas-purifying machine project in the converter shop. The sooner we finish the project, the sooner we will close the open-hearth manufacture”,…
DetailsShareholders of Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Works have decided to increase the supervisory board from 1 to 5 members. According to the company statement, Yuri Ryzhenkov, Alexander Pogozhev, Julia Dankova, Svetlana Romanova (all of them top-managers at Metinvest Holding and representatives of Metinvest B. V.) and Alexei Kolchanov (corporate secretary at Metinvest Holding) have been…
DetailsShareholders of Komsomolskoye Mine Group have decided to increase the supervisory board from 1 member to 5. According to the company statement, Yuri Ryzhenkov, Alexander Pogozhev, Julia Dankova, Svetlana Romanova and Olga Larina (all of them top-managers at Metinvest Holding) have become members of the supervisory board. They have been elected for 3 years. At…
DetailsTwo of the largest blast furnaces at Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works set new records for monthly volumes of pig iron in April. Blast furnace No. 9 produced 157.49 thousand tons of pig iron, beating its previous monthly record of 153.52 thousand tons, set in July 2013. Blast furnace No. 10 also set its own…
DetailsDneprovsky Iron and Steel Works wasn’t able to reach its output target in April. The reasons haven’t changed since the year start: absence of raw materials, lack of coke and scrap. According to the company statement, in April it produced 59.6 thousand tons of sinter less. Blast furnaces stood idle because of the lack of…
DetailsIn April scrap shortage in Ukraine totaled 34 thousand tons, or 12% of the metal companies need. “With scrap deficiency imports of Russian hot-briquetted iron (HBI) increased 9.6 times”, said Interpipe. Local market received 264 thousand tons of scrap, while it needed 298 thousand tons. “Ukraine wasn’t able to satisfy its needs because of the…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has cast and forged the hemispheric ingot weighing 125 tons for the manufacture of the high-pressure steam-generator shell for Kudankulam nuclear power station in India. “Taking into account technical characteristics, this ingot is the only one on the ex-USSR territory. The shell is also the first product of such weight to be produced from…
DetailsIn April Ukraine produced 2063 thousand tons of pig iron (68.8 thousand tons on average per day, up by 4% MoM), 2201 thousand tons of steel (73.4 thousand tons, up by 5% MoM) and 1967 thousand tons of rolled metal (65.6 thousand tons, up by 8% MoM). In January-April output was as follows: pig iron…
DetailsShareholders of Donetskkoks have decided to increase the supervisory board from 1 member to 5. According to the company statement, Yuri Ryzhenkov, Alexander Pogozhev, Julia Dankova, Svetlana Romanova (all of them top managers at Metinvest Holding) and Maxim Novikov (Ingulets Mining and Processing Works legal department director) have been elected members of the board for…
DetailsNorilsk Nickel, the world’s largest refined nickel and palladium producer, hosted its annual strategy day. The management reported on the main results of the completed strategic cycle of 2013-2015 and set key goals and priorities for the next strategic cycle of 2016-2018. In 2013-2015, a significant progress was achieved in transforming Norilsk Nickel into a…
DetailsShareholders of Zaporozhkoks have decided to increase the supervisory board from 1 member to 5. According to the company statement, Yuri Ryzhenkov, Alexander Pogozhev, Julia Dankova, Svetlana Romanova (all of them top managers at Metinvest Holding) and Andrei Akulich (Zaporizhstal commercial director) have been elected members of the board for 3 years. At the same…
DetailsShareholders of Yenakievo Coke Plant have dismissed Vitaly Litovka from the office of the supervisory chairman and appointed Vitaly Romansky instead.
According to the company statement, Romansky was the financial director of the plant. Shareholders have also reelected Alexander Mironenko, Oleg Gres, Ivan Avramov and Dayana Ivanyushenko members of the supervisory board. (Ukrainian metal)
Shareholders of Evraz Bagleykoks have reelected Sergey Burilin the company CEO. According to the company statement, he has been reelected for 1 year. The shareholders have also dismissed Palmrose B. V. (the Netherlands) and Dmitri Furmanov from the supervisory board and appointed Alexander Rybalko (representative of Palmrose B.V.), Lyudmila Garmash and Dmitry Skotarenko instead. (Ukrainian…
DetailsHead of Lugansk regional military-civilian administration Yuri Garbuz visited Lisichanskugol and Pervomayskugol. “I want to experience and understand the problems of the coal industry in the region. I know there are salary problems and others as well, of which I hope you will tell me”, explained Garbuz the reason for his visit. According to him,…
DetailsIn 2015 Kharkiv Coke Works decreased its net income by 8.3% YoY, to 454.44 million UAH. According to the company statement, its net profits dropped by 37.5% YoY, to 7.76 million UAH. Its EBIT decreased by 79.4%, to 3.11 million UAH, with its retained earnings on the level of 29.36 million UAH. Last year the…
DetailsIn January-April ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih produced 1.9 million tons of rolled metal, up by 11.8% YoY. Steel smelting went up by 5.6%, to 2.13 million tons, pig iron output increased by 11.7%, to 2 million tons, all YoY. Coke production grew by 10.4%, to 670 thousand tons, that of iron ore – by 20.6%, to…
DetailsA Kiev court has arrested the co-owner of a major scrap procurement and processing complex KVV Group Yevgeny Kazmin on the request from the State Security Service. Kazmin is suspected in financing activities connected with the changing of the country borders and the state border of Ukraine. Kazmin oversees construction of housing in the Russia-annexed…
DetailsIn 2015 the largest ferroalloys producer – Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant received 8.47 million UAH of losses.
According to the company statement, its net income increased by 31.65% YoY, or by 2.51 billion UAH, to 10.45 billion UAH. (Ukrainian metal)
Shareholders of Ingulets Mining and Processing Works have decided to increase the supervisory board from 1 to 5 members. According to the company statement, Yuri Ryzhenkov, Alexander Pogozhev, Julia Dankova, Svetlana Romanova (all of them representatives of Metinvest B. V.) and Alexander Bliznyuk have been elected members of the board for 3 years. At the…
DetailsIn 2015 Ordzhonikidze Mining and Processing Works received 3.59 million UAH of net profits, up by 38% YoY, or by 992 thousand UAH. According to the company statement, its net income went up by 17.97% YoY, or by 180.67 million UAH, to 1.18 billion UAH. This year OGOK plans to produce 947.6 thousand tons of…
DetailsIn January-April Ukraine exported 94.02 thousand tons of ferrous scrap metal, down by 76.9% YoY.
According to the State Fiscal Service, export revenues reached $16.84 million, down by 83.3% YoY. At the same time, in April Ukraine exported 82.47 thousand tons of scrap, with only 11.54 thousand tons in Q1. (Ukrainian metal)
Norilsk Nickel announces that upon completing all preceding loan granting conditions, on May 12, Bystrinskoye LLC received the first tranche as part of the credit line for the implementation of Bystrinsky Mining and Processing Works construction project in Trans-Baikal region. On May 5, Bystrinskoye LLC and Sberbank of Russia signed a loan agreement, whereby the…
DetailsIn 2015 Russian companies illegally imported 1.3 million tons of anthracite from the occupied territories of Ukraine. This coal was then exported to Europe and Africa, according to the Russian Customs Service and Russian Railroads. Most of the companies don’t state the origin of such coal. Last year Russia exported some 800 thousand tons of…
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