In January-August Lermontovsky Mining and Processing Works produced 235 tons of tungsten concentrate. The company employs 240 locals from the Svetlogorye village. In April LGOK resumed operation after a scheduled shut down. Since February the company has been assembling new machinery. Last year LGOK received 250 million rubles from the regional budget to resume operation.…
DetailsSignify (previously Philips Lighting) has modernized lighting systems at three Metalloinvest enterprises: Lebedinsky and Mikhailovsky Mining and Steel Works as well as Oskol Electrometallurgical Works. All in all the company has replaced over 5 thousand lamps in 15 shops. As the result of the second stage of the large-scale program to modernize lighting at Metalloinvest…
DetailsA record indicator for the resilience of the refractory lining of the main arch of the two-hearth furnace (THF) was achieved at the electric steel smelting shop at Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK). Periclase carbonaceous refractories within the lining of THF No. 32 withstood three full months and 1,265 melts. The previous highest indicator…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal has successfully fulfilled a contract to supply supporting rolls to a major Chinese metal company Anyang Steel. Under the contract EMSS has shipped two heavyweight supporting rolls with the combined weight of 230 tons. The rolls will be used in the hot-rolling plate mill-3500. The successful fulfillment of the order will allow EMSS receiving…
DetailsIn early September Ukrzaliznytsia announced a tender to buy tyres for rolling stock valued at UAH 47.7 million. Two companies participated – Interpipe Ukraine and Intervtorprom. Neither decreased their offers, thus raising suspicion. Journalists of the “Railroad without corruption” project found out that the companies often participated in such trades. This time all the documents…
DetailsKarabashmed is completing the assembly of the machinery of the third oxygen station. The new shop is being constructed under the program to modernize the chemical and metallurgical complexes of the enterprise and will increase Ausmelt furnace output. The capacity of the new oxygen station will be 5 thousand cubic meters per hour. The main…
DetailsBerezitovy Rudnik LLC, which is developing a gold ore deposit in Amur region, has increased its machinery fleet for 638 million rubles. According to the company statement, it has purchased 17 units of special machinery for the operation at its quarry. In particular, that’s 5 Caterpillar CAT-773 dump trucks with the lifting capacity of 55…
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