Severstal has started manufacturing high-strength and wear-resistant steel grades. Their usage decreases the thickness of rolled metal used by increasing its strength, thus affecting the railroad cargo throughput. The company has also presented two-layer steel grades. “The Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works two-layer metal could replace foreign analogues on the Russian market, which the railroad…
DetailsThe industrial port of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has started the 2018 navigation. The first vessels with metal will head to St Petersburg, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Taganrog and Nizhny Novgorod. The warehouses stock some 40 thousand tons of metal. The warehousing territory has been increased by one third. In 2017 the CherMK port throughput was…
DetailsIreland has considered several scenarios of intervention in operations of a local plant of Russian aluminum maker RUSAL Aughinish Alumina after the U.S. sanctions. Yet all of them have been rejected, Reuters reported, citing a source with knowledge of the situation. On April 6 the U.S. imposed sanctions against 38 Russian tycoons, officials and companies…
DetailsRussia’s RUSAL will overhaul its board and management in the hope the U.S. will remove the aluminum firm from a sanctions list so it can restart shipments to its customers around the world, Reuters reported citing two sources. The sources, familiar with the developments but who asked not to be named because they were not…
DetailsIn 2017 Zaporizhstal increased net profit 2.5-fold YoY, to 5.118 billion UAH, having increased its net income by 5.2%, to 33.208 billion UAH. According to the company statement, the prime cost of metal sold totaled 23.724 billion UAH. Last year Zaporizhstal produced 3926.4 thousand tons of steel, up by 0.9% YoY. The company also produced…
DetailsIt is planned to produce 20 tons of mercury, 104 tons of antimony and 3,450 tons of fluorite (fluorspar concentrate) this year at Khaidarkan mercury plant, the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Mining and Metallurgical Trade Union Eldar Tadzhibaev declared. According to him, in the first quarter of the year the enterprise received…
DetailsUkrainian steelmakers boosted steel output by 4.7% YoY in March, to 1.7 million tons, having slid from the 12th to the 14th place in the international steelmakers rating drawn up by the World Steel Association (WSA). In January-March Ukraine reduced steel production by 2.8% YoY. China continued to top the rating in March with 73.9…
DetailsIn February Metinvest increased the adjusted EBITDA by 29.8% YoY, to $196 million, but dropped by 14% MoM. According to the company statement, its revenue grew by 54.5% YoY, but decreased by 9.4% MoM, to $914 million. In February Metinvest increased metal sales by 47.6% YoY, but decreased by 18.2% MoM, to 1.287 million tons.…
DetailsIn January-March Ukraine produced 4.59 million tons of metal, down by 2% YoY, taking into account operation of metal enterprises in January-February 2017 on the occupied territories. Without them metal output increased by 8% YoY. Exports totaled 3.23 million tons, or 83.3% of the overall output, down from 85% in Q1 2017, or 3.97 million…
DetailsIn January-March Mechel decreased its net losses 1.7-fold YoY, to 5.1 billion rubles. According to the company statement, its revenue grew 2.2-fold, to 2 billion rubles. Gross profit increased 2.1-fold, to 2 billion rubles. Sales profit totaled 1.6 billion rubles, up 2.8-fold. The company fixed liabilities increased by 2.6%, to 239.7 billion rubles, while current…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to spend the 2017 profit on the manufacture development.
The decision was taken at the recent annual shareholders meeting. A new supervisory board and revision committee have also been elected.
Last year AMKR received 66.19 billion UAH of net income, with net profit at 5.06 billion UAH. (Ukrainian metal)
China National Petroleum Corporation is building a mini-pipe works with the capacity of 100 thousand tons per year. The works will occupy a territory of 18.3 ha in the industrial zone of Almaty. Investments in the project will total $100 million, with a half to be provided by the Chinese investor. In the long-term it…
DetailsInformation from anonymous sources of agencies Reuters and Bloomberg about Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL is questionable, the company said on its Facebook page on April 27. “In connection with publication of reports about RUSAL by agencies Reuters and Bloomberg based on information received from anonymous sources of questionable quality, RUSAL’s press office states the…
DetailsAzerGold closed joint stock company intends to work out a strategic roadmap for integrated development of the mining industry in Azerbaijan, Zakir Ibrahimov, chairman of board of AzerGold CJSC, said. “We intend to work out a strategic roadmap that will reflect a number of key tasks to develop the mining industry in Azerbaijan, as well…
DetailsOleg Deripaska plans to keep control over RUSAL even as the Russian aluminum giant battles for survival in the face of harsh U.S. sanctions, Bloomberg reported on April 26, citing people familiar with the matter. Deripaska was counting on lobbying by European governments to help ease the U.S. sanctions, said the people, who asked not…
DetailsSinida-1, a part of Seligdar, has started the ore gold mining season. On April 25, after a winter break and modernization, the gold-extracting factory at the Nerundinskoye deposits (Buryatia) was put into operation. “We expect increase in gold extraction. We plan to reach 74% of extraction as opposed to 45% last year. This will be…
DetailsIzhstal has been included into the registry of suppliers approved by the Pipe Metallurgical Company. TMK has included Izhstal into its list following the audit of the Pipe Industry Research Institute. The audit has confirmed the Izhstal correspondence with the requirements of ISO 9001, supply agreements and legislation. “This allows us selling metal products to…
DetailsIn 2017 Evraz Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works received the net profit of 2.38 billion UAH as opposed to the net loss of 322.75 million UAH in 2016. Last year the company increased its net income by 56.6% YoY, to 15.78 billion UAH. In 2017 Evraz DMZ produced 174.54 thousand tons of pig iron, 495.68…
DetailsIn 2017 Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsk Pipe-rolling Works received 313.4 million UAH of net profit as opposed to the net loss of 1.14 billion UAH in 2016. Last year the company increased net income 2.1-fold YoY, to 10.42 billion UAH. EBITDA reached 279.87 million UAH as opposed to the negative result of 1.31 billion UAH in 2016.…
DetailsIn 2017 Ferrotrading LLC, specializing in the processing of secondary metals and alloys, decreased net profit by 34% YoY, to 8.287 million UAH.
Net income grew 2.1-fold, to 214.252 million UAH.
EBITDA fell to 8.404 million UAH from 12.563 million UAH in 2016. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-March Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works, sold by Evraz to DCH, produced 154 thousand tons of steel, down by 36.1% YoY and by 40.1% QoQ. Pig iron output fell by 34.1% YoY and by 39% QoQ, to 153 thousand tons. The fall in the output has to do with the unstable operation of the…
DetailsIn 2017 Sukhaya Balka increased net income by 28% YoY, to 4.383 billion UAH. Last year the company net loss grew 7.5-fold, to 1.173 billion UAH. Undistributed profit totaled 1.631 billion UAH. In 2017 Sukhaya Balka produced 2.513 million tons of iron ore, down by 2% YoY. Consolidated accounts receivable decreased by 79.7%, to 254.696…
DetailsIn January-March Corum Svet Shakhtera increased output by 32% YoY, to 199.5 million UAH. The main products are chain-and-flight conveyers, cutter loaders and transformer substations. “From late 2016 till January 2018 our mill fleet increased with new machines of Doosan, Mitsubishi and Taurus. Investments in the manufacture totaled 60 million UAH”, the company director Alexander…
DetailsThe Ministry of Industry and Trade intends to provide state support to domestic metal enterprises to actively increase exports. “As to the metal industry, the development of exports depends on geopolitical factors. But the deep processing both in ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy will provide for the increase of Russia’s export potential”, the minister Denis Manturov…
DetailsThe Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has provided over 131 million UAH to prevent the environment catastrophe and shutting down of mines in Donbass. According to the chairman of the Ministry on temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons Vadim Chernysh, this decision will help regulate not only the problem of the catastrophe and allow…
DetailsThe consolidated steel output of Evraz in January-March dropped by 5.5% QoQ, to 3.3 million tons, mostly because of the decrease in pig iron production. Coking coal manufacture increased by 6.7%, to 6 million tons, thanks to the completion of works at the Alardinskaya and Uskovskaya mines’ long faces. Steel sales fell by 5.7%, including…
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