In January-July exports of raw materials for metal industry grew by 42.2%, to 2.6 million tons, valued at $1.323 billion, up by 32.3%. Pig iron exports went up by 59.3%, to 1.767 million tons, with 175.5 thousand tons valued at $64.56 million exported in July, which was one of the lowest results since the start…
DetailsThe board of directors of Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel has recommended paying 776.02 rubles per share, or a total of about 122.802 billion rubles in dividends for January-June, the company said in a statement. The shareholders will discuss the recommendation at an extraordinary meeting scheduled for August 27. The record date for the dividends…
DetailsNovocherkassk Electrode Works (NEZ) has put into operation a new line of pitch impregnation. The line will increase the output of electrodes with the diameter of 250 mm to 710 mm 2-fold, from 1500 tons to 3 thousand tons. The cost of the project is 172 million rubles. Until 2020 Energoprom will invest 2.6 billion…
DetailsSmart Maritime Group has shipped to the customer the first batch of metal structures produced under the contract to assemble three thickener tanks for Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works with the combined cost of 175 million UAH. So far 180 pillars have been sent to the city of Krivoy Rog. All of them have been…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has supplied a batch of supporting rolls for ArcelorMittal. The companies have been cooperating since 2001. This time EMSS shipped rolls to AM Atlantique et Lorraine Seremange HSM (France), AM Bremen GmbH (Germany), AM Espana SA (Spain) и AM Poland S.A. (Poland). The combined weight of rolls to be used in cold- and hot-rolling…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has shipped another batch of slag ladles to ArcelorMittal Temirtau. The batch included 3 slag ladles with the total weight of 67.6 tons. Each ladle has the volume of 16 cubic meters. EMSS has been producing slag ladles since 1987. The first ladle castings were supplied to Taganrog Iron and Steel Works. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsUralmashzavod has concluded a contract with Karelsky Okatysh to supply a gyratory crusher with improved performance and crushing quality. The modernized crusher with the weight of 430 tons will be able to process 5 thousand tons per hour. And the size of the ore should not exceed 250 mm. At present Karelsky Okatysh is using…
DetailsElectrozinc has started preparations for the tender to design a new zinc electrolysis shop. Within this project Outotec (Finland) representatives visited the company. The new shop with the capacity of 96 thousand tons of zinc will replace the shop built in 1934. 3 companies intend to participate in the project: Outotec, Engitec Technologies (Italy) and…
DetailsNLMK has finished assembling new machinery under the project to expand the shipping sites in the hot-rolling shop. The increase of the area to process rolled metal and the development of the infrastructure will create a reserve of hot-rolled coils for the periods of seasonal fluctuations of demand. NLMK supplies hot-rolled metal in coils and…
DetailsCherepovets Iron and Steel Works has started construction works within the project to modernize hydraulic roll screwdowns of edging stands and horizontal stands of the mill-2000 in the sheet-rolling shop No. 2. Investments in the project total 1 billion rubles. At present the general contractor is constructing foundation pits for the pump stations and prepares…
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