Prices for precious metals in Azerbaijan continued to decline on July 17, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The price of gold decreased by 5.457 manat, to 2110.227 manats per ounce compared to the price on July 16. The price of silver decreased by 0.0605 manats, to 26.8797 manats per ounce. The…
DetailsThe Georgian Industrial Group (GIG), the largest industrial holding in Georgia owning Saknakhshiri coal mining company, is ready to gift the company to the state in the wake of the fatal incident in the Tkibuli Mindeli Mine, which claimed the lives of four miners and left six others with severe injuries. GIG states that despite…
DetailsRussia’s production of finished, semi-finished, and powdered gold fell by 13% YoY but rose by 26.5% MoM in June, the Federal State Statistics Service said in a report. In January-June gold production decreased by 1.2% YoY. Previously, absolute figures on production of non-ferrous metals were a state secret. The figures are no longer classified, but…
DetailsPrime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze has announced the closure of Mindeli coal mine where four died and six injured as a result of a methane explosion on July 16. “I express my wholehearted condolences to the families of the victims in this difficult moment. The state cannot allow the vulnerability of health and life…
DetailsIn January-June Electrozinc fulfilled zinc manufacturing plan by 101.5%. According to preliminary data, sales are expected on the level of 2863 million rubles, up from 2507 million rubles in H1 2017, and net income – 330 million rubles (252.388 million rubles). Payments to all budgets will reach 564 million rubles. In H1 the company produced…
DetailsRusolovo intends by the end of 2022 to have constructed and commissioned the mining and processing works at the Pravourminskoye tin ore deposits. Investments will total 9.7 billion rubles. Construction of the GOK itself will cost 6.7 billion rubles. The company will also have to construct a road from the site to the settlement of…
DetailsIn June, according to the railroad statistics, direct deliveries of ferrous metals to the enterprises of the railroad machine-building industry reached 137.2 thousand tons. This is by 57.4% more YoY. In January-June deliveries grew by 21.7% YoY, to 760.8 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsUralmashzavod will supply the sixth EKG-18 excavator to Kuzbassrazrezugol, a part of UGMK. Since the beginning of the year the company has already received 3 excavators. Assembly of the two of them has begun. 3 more machines will have been supplied by the end of the year. EKG-18 is one of the most sought after…
DetailsThe chairman of the Samara region Dmitriy Azarov has visited Arkonik SMZ, the largest manufacturer of aluminum semi-finished products in Russia. The company manufactures unique products – light-alloyed drilling pipes, parts for the newest Russian aircraft MS-21, as well as the first in Russia aluminum hoppers and bridges. In 2016 the company underwent modernization, the…
DetailsMagnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) plans to invest 38 billion rubles until 2025 into environment protection, an MMK representative reported. The Chelyabinsk region’s department of the Federal Service for Natural Resources Oversight sent a report to the federal department stating that MMK inflicted 3.2 billion rubles of financial damage on water bodies of the…
DetailsA new plant for the enrichment of sludge at sludge depository No. 2 has been launched at PJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works’ (MMK) ore-dressing workshop. This will allow the company to increase the share of its own iron ore materials in sinter production’s burden, but also to significantly decrease its industrial impact on the…
DetailsAlexander Zakharov, ex-director of the tool-mechanical shop of the Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Works, has been appointed the CEO of the Ukrainian Casting Company LLC. Zakharov has replaced Valeriy Kotikov, who has been chairing the company since June 2015. The new director sees the priority in the increase of output to 120 tons of castings per…
DetailsSo far Energomashspetsstal has mastered the manufacture of over 300 steel grades according to GOST, DIN and ASTM. Since 2017 the company has produced 2500 tons of high-alloyed stainless steel for the power industry, including the new steel grade according to EDF. EMSS has also produced 10 bulk ingots weighing from 205 to 290 tons,…
DetailsIn January-June Sibcable increased cable output by 40% YoY. In particular, the company produced 530 km of power cables. Control cable output grew 2.5-fold, to 17.6 thousand km. (Ukrainian metal)
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