Vitaly Zyusko, a former deputy CEO of the Krasnolimanskaya mine, and acting director after Konstantin Kiselev has been fired, was met with damnations and shouts he was not supported by anyone in this office.
Rinat Akhmetov’s DTEK assets have been illegally privatized and their return to the state ownership will look not like reprivatization or nationalization, but like a return of the wrongfully amortized property.
Zaporizhstal has concluded a contract to carry out design and survey work on construction of the hot-rolled coils complex within the converter shop. The sum of the contract is about 100 million UAH.
Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works and Primetals Technology (Austria) have signed an agreement to construct a continuous casting machine.
Metallurgprom board of directors has appointed Alexander Kalenkov, the Institute for strategic researches director, the president.
In January-August Ukraine imported $1121.34 million worth of anthracite and black coal, including $138.11 million in August.
According to the Metinvest CEO Yuri Ryzhenkov, Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works and Azovstal Iron and Steel Works operate at 80-85% of their capacities, while Severny, Ingulets and Central Mining and Processing Works have all their capacities fully loaded.
The head of the Lviv region state administration Oleg Sinyutka, Lvivugol representatives and Lviv region coal industry trade union have discussed the debts to the Lviv miners.
Energomashspetsstal (Kramatorsk, Donetsk region) plans to produce a large batch of rolls for ArcelorMittal Bremen (Germany), ArcelorMittal Sestao (Italy) and ArcelorMittal Atlantique et Lorraine-Florange (France).
Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works, a part of Metinvest, has changed its legal address and registered anew in Mariupol.
The Supervisory board of Ilyich-Stal, a part of Metinvest, has extended the term of office of the acting CEO Alexander Alipa from October 1, 2015 till April 1, 2016.
The employees of the state stock company Ukrainian Polymetals have asked the court of law to recover salary owed to them.
On October 28, shareholders of the Artemovsk Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Works (AZOTSM, Donetsk region) plan to discuss the renaming of the company.
In August the major Ukrainian ferroalloys manufacturer Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NZF) produced 4.1 thousand tons of ferromanganese, down by 38.8%, or by 2.6 thousand tons YoY.
In August Ukraine produced 76.8 thousand tons of ferroalloys, down by 55%, or by 93.9 thousand tons YoY.
Employees of the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Works, a part of the Metinvest Group, after all the dangers and constant shelling don’t view money as the main goal of their work.
In January-August Mezhdurechensky Mining and Processing Works, a part of the titanium business of Group DF, produced 106.7 thousand tons of ilmenite concentrate with 42% Ti2O content, up by 12.5% YoY.
In August Ukraine produced 155.1 thousand tons of manganese concentrate and sinter, down by 50.4% YoY, or by 157.4 thousand tons.