In January-August Russia’s imports totaled $157.9 billion, up by 9.5% YoY. According to the Federal Customs Service, metals and metal wares accounted for 7.3% (7% last year). The import volumes of ferrous metals grew by 8.5%. At the same time the imports of steel pipes dropped by 29.4%, while of iron and unalloyed flat steel…
DetailsPetropavlovsk Plc has put into operation a floatation shop at the Malomyr mine. It will produce gold-containing concentrate – raw materials for the autoclave complex. The shop could process 3 million tons of refractory ore per year. Petropavlovsk intends to have started producing autoclaves by the end of the year. The Pokrovsky complex will be…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine exported 4.911 million tons of carbon steel semi-finished products, up by 15.8% YoY, valued at $2.354 billion, up by 45.6%. According to the State Fiscal Service, Italy imported 34.65% of the semi-finished products, Egypt – 17.17% and Turkey – 16.7%. In 9 months Ukraine imported 33.616 thousand tons of semi-finished products valued…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine increased copper and copper wares imports by 12.1% YoY, to $69.79 million. According to the customs statistics, copper exports also grew – by 26.3%, to $117.114 million. In September copper imports totaled $9.225 million, and exports – $5.889 million. Nickel imports in 9 months grew by 32.5%, to $73.826 million ($7.431 million…
DetailsIn January-September Dalpolymetal increased ore output by 49.2% YoY, to 623 thousand tons. This exceeds the business plan by 2.2%. Since the start of the year factory has processed 610 thousand tons of ore, up by 51.3%. The company has produced 7.7 thousand tons of lead concentrate, up by 51.7%. Zinc concentrate manufacture totaled 12.6…
DetailsThe Northeastern manufacturing and geological enterprise, a part of the state holding Rosgeologia, has finished designing the project of operations at the Deryas-Yuryaginskaya prospective field. There the company is looking for ore gold under the state contract concluded with the Department on subsoil use of the Far Eastern District. The size of the field is…
DetailsThe growth of the output and the expansion of the product portfolio made Andrometa increase its manufacturing capacities. In 2017 the company management decided to construct the fifth shop with the height of 12 meters and the size of 1.5 thousand square meters. The shop allows working with structures of the size of 1000×2000 mm…
DetailsElectrozinc has completed the annual repairs of its zinc manufacture and commissioned the main and auxiliary shops. The company has also put into operation the absorber of the sulfuric acid shop and the cooling tower of the steam power shop. “The commissioning of the absorber has completed the reconstruction of the sulfuric acid shop, which…
DetailsLukoil president Vagit Alekperov and Severstal chairman Alexei Mordashov have held a working meeting in Moscow. They discussed development of cooperation. “Severstal is an important partner for Lukoil. It is one of the leaders in Russian metal and mining industry, a company with a vast international experience. We’ve been developing cooperation since 2006, helping each…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine increased imports of coal by 20% YoY, to 15.64 million tons. According to the State Fiscal Service, the cost of coal was $2.191 billion, up by 15.4%. Russia supplied $1.374 billion worth of coal (62.72%), USA – $670.563 million (30.59%), Canada – $86.93 million (3.97%) and other countries – $59.532 million (2.72%).…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has received a new order from ArcelorMittal for the manufacture of four supporting rolls for the hot-rolling mills. The rolls have to be delivered to France – to AM Atlantique et Lorraine Seremange HSM and ArcelorMittal Lorraine-Florange CSM. The first two rolls with the weight of 63.2 tons will be shipped to the customer…
DetailsIn September direct deliveries of ferrous scrap to the major Russian metal and pipe works via railroad totaled 1.43 million tons. According to the railroad statistics, this is up by 10.43% YoY. In January-September scrap deliveries grew by 4.4%, to 10.23 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
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