The prices of main precious metals increased in Azerbaijan on June 11, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold increased by 4.165 manats, to 2,208.4275 manats per ounce compared to the price on June 8. The cost of silver increased by 0.322 manats, to 28.7133 manats per ounce. The…
DetailsTMK Chermet has invested over 80 million rubles in the purchase of 16 units of modern machines, including KamAZs with crane manipulators, Volvo artics and a Liebherr loader. The new machines arrived at the scrap-procuring sites of Yekaterinburg, Volgograd, Saratov and Bataysk. They will considerably increase the speed and volumes of delivery, loading and unloading…
DetailsVSMPO-Avisma has received a loan of 100 million rubles to create a site to process bulk titanium rings. 30% of the sum is provided by the Sverdlovsk-based Fund of industry development, and 70% – by the Federal fund. The company has started assembling the technological line. Vertical borers will be assembled to process titanium rings…
DetailsMetalloinvest will build a heat treatment facility for hot-rolled steel at OEMK. The heat treatment facility will have an annual capacity of 70,000 tons of high-quality (Special Bar Quality, SBQ) bars, and will be established within the enterprise’s finishing plant. The facility will add to the existing heat treatment capacities at OEMK’s rolling plant No.…
DetailsAt 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…
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