In June Severstal-Gonvarri-Kaluga LLC successfully passed the re-certification audit for the correspondence to the international standards of ISO 9001:2015 and IATF 16949:2016. Bureau Veritas carried out the re-certification audit. SGK management system is certified according to ISO 9001:2015, IATF 16949:2016, ISO 14001:2015 and OHSAS 18001:2007. The first certification was carried out in 2011 according to…
DetailsIzhstal has repaired the arc steel furnace to produce stainless, tool and speed steel grades. The repair of the rolling mill-450 has also been completed. All the work was performed according to schedule. The repaired arc furnace produces high-alloyed steel grades. The site capacity is 60 thousand tons per year. The mill-450 produces rolled metal.…
DetailsNext year prices of metal products and raw materials will stabilize, Evraz says. “We believe the prices of coal and steel will return to a more sensible level. It’s difficult to say, when this happens, but probably already in the second half of the year. Or next year”, Evraz vice president on finances Nikolai Ivanov…
DetailsIn 2017-2018 the United Mining and Chemical Company bought special machinery worth 195.9 million UAH. In particular, for its subsidiaries of Volnogorsk Iron and Steel Works and Irshansk Mining and Processing Works it purchased 47 units of machines, including 24 special machines, and 17 cargo and passenger machines. Volnogorsk Works saw the largest machine park…
DetailsThe prices of the main precious metals varied in Azerbaijan on July 6, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold increased by 0.085 manats, to 2133.8825 manats per ounce compared to the price on July 5. The cost of platinum increased by 5.1425 manats, to 1434.8255 manats. The cost…
DetailsThe electricity supplier has cut the state enterprise Volynugol mines off grid because of the debt. “Since the second shift on July 4, the Regional Electric Networks has stopped supplying electricity to the Volynugol mines”, Mikhail Volynets, chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine, wrote on his Facebook page. According to him, the regional…
DetailsIn 2017 Rusal Armenal received 49.7 billion drams, up by 31.5% YoY. The company gross profit grew by 67.5%, to 6.031 billion drams. Assets increased by 2.6%, to 46.7 billion drams. The company liabilities dropped by 1.1%, to 36.5 billion drams. The foil-rolling plant Rusal Armenal in the city of Yerevan was created by Rusal…
DetailsTaking into account the Lysva Iron and Steel Works capacities, the MMK share of the coated rolled metal market could reach 30%. In June LMZ sold 35 thousand tons of polymer-coated metal, which became a historical record. This year Lysva Works intends to sell 280 thousand tons of metal. So far 110 thousand tons have…
DetailsIngulets Mining and Processing Works has shipped the first batch of iron ore premium quality concentrate to a metal company in Mexico. According to the company CEO Alexander Gerasimchuk, the delivery to Mexico allows InGOK to expand sales markets. “Our products are sailing to the customers. The interest of foreign companies proves that InGOK is…
DetailsThe United Mining and Chemical Company has transferred 332.6 million UAH of dividends for 2017 to the state budget, having set another record. According to the company statement, last year it paid 321.8 million UAH of dividends for 2016. “For the fourth year in a row our company remains a socially responsible taxpayer, annually increasing…
DetailsSeverstal has finished the record-long series of steel pouring from one ladle at the continuous casting machine of the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. The ladle carried out 200 pourings. The duration of the continuous pouring process was 166 hours and 22 minutes. The ladle has poured 24.8 thousand tons. The previous record was 158…
DetailsThe Russian Copper Company and the National prospecting company Kazgeologia have signed a memorandum of cooperation in seeking out and developing non-ferrous and polymetallic ore deposits on the territory of Kazakhstan. “RCC has been operating in Kazakhstan for almost 15 years. We see the interest of the authorities in the cooperation development with Russian companies.…
DetailsUp to 1 thousand miners are striking near the building of the Verkhovnaya Rada demanding their salary debts to be cleared. They make noise by hitting their helmets on the road. They also carry banners with the inscription of “We do not demand what is not ours. We have come for our salary”, “Give us…
DetailsMetinvest has won the golden medal of the SAP Quality Awards 2018 for the best innovation project in Central and Eastern Europe. Metinvest participated in the competition for the first time. The group project “Coal-coke-pig iron” was nominated in the innovation category. The group specialists have developed and implemented the system to plan the through…
DetailsHaving prohibited the exports of scrap from the main Far East ports for 6 months to help Amurmetal with raw materials, the government can now take similar measures to help Abinsk Electrometallurgical Works (AEMZ). The Ministry of industry and trade intends to hold a meeting on providing AEMZ with raw materials. The authorities of Krasnodar…
DetailsMagnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) won the XV industry competition titled “Metal and Mining Enterprises with Highly Effective CSR”. The competition participants were 61 metal and mining enterprises. For the second year in a row, MMK is amongst the winners in the category “Environmental Protection and Resource Management”. MMK’s investments in environment protection last…
DetailsThe prices of the main precious metals varied in Azerbaijan on July 5, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold decreased by 2.686 manats, to 2,133.7975 manats per ounce compared to the price on July 4. The cost of silver decreased by 0.0476 manats, to 27.2734 manats per ounce.…
DetailsS & P Global Rating believes that the Eurasian Resources Group will see a higher financial stability, and has increased its long-term rating to B from B-. Last year the group EBITDA reached $2 billion, and its free fund flow was positive ($476 million). The group was able to strengthen its positions due to FeCr…
DetailsBy 2024 Seligdar intends to have increased gold output to 10 tons. According to the company development strategy, the first stage of 2018-2021 will see gold output increase to 8 tons. The second stage of 2022-2024 presupposes the commissioning of the Khvoyniy site in Yakutia with the capacity of over 2 tons of gold a…
DetailsThis year Polyus Aldan intends to produce over 6 tons of gold. At present the company ore gold output accounts for 37% of the total output in Yakutia. In 2017 Kuranakhskaya gold-extracting factory processed over 4.6 million tons of ore and produced 171.5 thousand ounces of gold. In 2016 the output was 159.7 thousand ounces.…
DetailsRussia’s metals and mining group Mechel has prolonged an agreement to deliver up to 700,000 tons of premium quality coking coal to China’s Baosteel Resources until July 2019, it said in a statement on July 4. Yakutugol subsidiary will ship up to 40,000 tons every month. The price will be set monthly. CEO Oleg Kirzhov…
DetailsEvraz still supplies slabs to the United States, despite the duty of 25%. According to the Evraz vice president on finances Nikolay Ivanov, “on one hand, the products sold to the US became more expensive, while on the other, because of the duty, as expected, domestic prices have grown“. “So we are still supplying slabs…
DetailsIn June Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works produced 1006 thousand tons of concentrate, up by 0.9% YoY. According to the company statement, sinter output dropped by 41.4%, to 88.1 thousand tons. In January-June UGOK decreased concentrate output by 0.4% YoY, to 6060.2 thousand tons, while sinter manufacture grew by 0.1%, to 894.6 thousand tons. (Ukrainian…
DetailsThe prices of main precious metals increased in Azerbaijan on July 4, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold increased by 30.7785 manats, to 2,136.4835 manats per ounce compared to the price on July 3. The cost of silver increased by 0.4613 manats, to 27.321 manats per ounce. The…
DetailsNikolai Kovalchuk, an employee of the Novovolynskaya-10 mine, who took part in the underground strike demanding salary debts to be cleared, ended up in the hospital. According to Mikhail Volynets, chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine, he suffered from vomiting and bleeding. Kovalchuk has been taken to the hospital by the mining rescuing…
DetailsInterpipe has invested $8 million in the construction of the pipe finishing line at its Interpipe Niko Tube works in the city of Nikopol. The assembly of the machinery has been completed. Now the line is being tested. When it reaches its project capacity it will be able to process 93 thousand tons of pipes…
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