Kolmar intends to start supplying coal to India having commissioned the coal terminal in the port of Vanino. After the construction VaninoTransUgol will be able to load large vessels. At present because of the long logistics scheme and low deadweight such a cooperation is unprofitable. Now the company has contracts for the supply of coking…
DetailsIn January-March Zagorsky Pipe Works shipped via railway 67.4 thousand tons of metal, up almost 4-fold YoY. Large diameter pipes accounted for some 95% of the sales. Almost all the pipes were supplied to the Russian oil and gas sector. The main suppliers of sheet steel to ZTZ were MMK, CherMK and UralStal – 104.6…
DetailsThe largest coalmining enterprise of the Sakhalin – Solntsevskiy Coal Pit – is increasing output. In January-March it mined 1.5 million tons, up 3.7-fold YoY. In February the miners set a regional record having obtained 650 thousand tons of coal. Last year the enterprise received a new KomatsuPC-3000 excavator with the ladle volume of 16…
DetailsPolymetal International plc has confirmed the acquisition of a 50% stake in the silver deposits of Prognoz for $140 million, to be paid in Polymetal shares. As the result of the deal Polymetal stake in Prognoz reached 100%. The total cost of the purchase reached $215 million, including $3 million paid for the initial 5%,…
DetailsThe sintering factory of Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has commissioned the first complex of the modern gas purification. It will allow decreasing dust emissions by 90% and sulfur oxide emission by 43%. Machinery and technologies were provided by Termokimik Corporation (Italy). Investments in the project totaled $220 million. The reconstruction of the sintering…
DetailsGaysky Mining and Processing Works is actively prospecting at 5 sites in Orenburg region. The total size of the prospecting works is some 600 square km. In particular, at the Gayskoye deposits the company is surveying the ore reserves below the 1310 horizon. This year the company intends to invest some 75 million rubles in…
DetailsThe denial of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to allow Metinvest B. V. to purchase Dneprovsky By-Product Coke Plant is not final. “Having analyzed the situation we provided the company with preliminary results where we see monopolization. This is not a denial – Metinvest can react to the preliminary results”, the committee chairman Yuri Terentiev…
DetailsIn 2017 Zaporozhye Iron Ore Complex increased net profit 2.9-fold YoY, to 1.286 billion UAH. According to the company statement, its EBITDA grew 3-fold, to 1.586 billion UAH. Net income increased by 45%, to 3.949 billion UAH. Undistributed profit totaled 3.521 billion UAH. Last year the company produced 4.503 million tons of iron ore, down…
DetailsIn 2017 ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih received 66.185 billion UAH of net income, up by 25% YoY. According to the company statement, its net profit increased from 2.704 billion UAH to 5.061 billion UAH. EBITDA grew by 94.3%, to 6.353 billion UAH. The undistributed profit totaled 32.98 billion UAH. Last year the company produced 5.134 million…
DetailsIn 2017 Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant received 2.67 billion UAH of net profit as opposed to 727.46 million UAH of net losses. Net income grew by 68.4% YoY, to 18.88 billion UAH. EBITDA reached 3.27 billion UAH, as opposed to the debt of 837.67 million UAH in 2016. The undistributed profit totaled 2.34 billion UAH. Last…
DetailsZaporizhstal has completed the project on environmental reconstruction of its sintering factory. The cost of the project is some $80 million. The modernization was carried out in stages: since 2012 the company has been commissioning one new gas-purifying unit each year. Such terms have to do with the fact, that the manufacturing process was not…
DetailsHugues Mingarelli, Head of the European Union Mission to Ukraine, visited PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih. This is his first visit to Kriviy Rih and to the biggest mining and steelmaking plant of Ukraine. Along with the delegation Mingarelli held a meeting with the management of the plant, where numerous important issues were discussed, such as…
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