At the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting (AGM) held on June 8 in Lipetsk, NLMK shareholders voted to confirm Grigory Fedorishin as the Group’s President and Chief Executive Officer; and to elect a new Board of Directors, with a majority of independent directors (five seats out of nine). Nine members of the Board of Directors were…
DetailsThe newly elected Board of Directors of NLMK Group held its first meeting on June 8 following the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting. Vladimir Lisin was re-elected as Chairman of the Board. The Board of Directors approved a schedule of the Board meetings and formed Board Committees. Independent directors comprise the majority on two of the…
DetailsAt the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting (AGM) held on June 8 in Lipetsk, NLMK shareholders approved the payment of FY2017 dividends of 14.04 rubles per share (considering the previously paid interim dividends, the amount outstanding to be paid for Q4 2017 is 3.36 rubles per share). Shareholders also approved the payment of dividends for Q1…
DetailsA worker of the mine of Vertex Gold Company was injured, eyewitnesses reported. The 34-year-old worker was hospitalized in serious condition. He’s in intensive care unit. The mine of the gold mining company is located in Chatkal district of Jalal-Abad region. The main activity of Vertex Gold Company is the development and extraction of minerals.…
DetailsThe rolled metal consumption is expected to grow by 3-3.5% in 2018. According to Denis Dyatlov, MMK Trading House director, consumption will grow in car manufacture and machine-building, and will remain on the same level in pipe industry. Unfortunately, the construction industry shows negative results. In January-April rolled metal consumption dropped by 2%. This year…
DetailsAccording to Igor Malyshev, director of the Fund of pipe industry development, the pipe market is still facing the problem of quality dumping, indicated by a growth of faked products sales, in particular, used pipes, which are sold as new under forged documents. The volume of the shadow market is considerable – over 1 million…
DetailsMarket players expect stabilization of supply and demand in the second half of the year. Small and medium diameter pipes consumption growth is expected on the level of 5%, and seamless pipes – 3%. The second half of the year will see a seasonal increase of demand for small and medium diameter pipes, while the…
DetailsIn January-April exports from Russia totaled $140.2 billion, up by 26.8%. According to the customs statistics, the share of metal grew to 10.7% from 9.9% in January-April 2017. In money terms exports increased by 36.7% YoY, and in physical terms – by 15.4%. Pig iron exports grew by 39.9%, copper and copper alloys – by…
DetailsIn January-April Russian imports totaled $75 billion, up by 18.6% YoY. Far foreign countries accounted for 88.9% of all supplies, while CIS countries – 11.1%. The share of metal grew to 7.2% from 6.8% in January-April 2017. In physical terms imports increased by 26% and in money terms – by 25.2%. Ferrous metals imports grew…
DetailsKAZ Minerals has signed an agreement with Non Ferrous of China on investments into Koksay project. According to the agreement, in exchange for the investments of $70 million NFC will receive 19.4% in the project. “We have successfully worked with NFC at the Bozshakol and Aktogay construction and intend to develop our relations”, the company…
DetailsThe state enterprise Lvivugol has completely cleared the salary debts for April to its miners. According to a company representative, the enterprise received a payment from the state enterprise Ugol Ukrainy (Coal of Ukraine), which allowed paying April salary in full. Soon May salary will also be paid. Earlier miners threatened to go on a…
DetailsIn January-May Ukraine exported 242.684 thousand tons of titanium-containing ores and concentrate valued at $50.296 million, up by 8.6% and by 44.5% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, the Czech Republic imported 22.92% of goods, Turkey 21.7% and Mexico 14.14%. At the same time Ukraine imported 15.457 thousand tons of ores from Senegal…
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