In April Zaporizhstal increased pig iron output by 4% YoY and steel by 5.4%. According to the company statement, it produced 279.6 thousand tons of pig iron, 317.3 thousand tons of steel and 265.8 thousand tons of rolled metal. Steel and pig iron output increase has to do with the increased operation of blast furnaces…
DetailsAs of May 1, Druza LLC (a gold-mining company from Irkutsk) mined 229 kg of ore gold at the Nevskoye deposit. The company also owns the Bolshoy Dogaldyn alluvial gold site. Sand washing will begin there in June. This year the company intends to process 850 thousand tons of ore and 100 thousand cubic meters…
DetailsIn 2016 Yekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Works increased output by 20%, and precious metals refining by 10%. The company earnings decreased by 12% YoY, to $346 million, with exports amounting to $235 million. Net profits dropped to $8 million from $23 million in 2015. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn 2016 Trubprom started developing new manufacture – large diameter pipes of stainless steel. According to the company director Ilya Vorontsov, last year Trubprom received trial orders, and this year it has many more. The company has also modernized the mill, having increased the range of products. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsSeverstal has started producing the DP600 dual phase ferrite-martensite pickled hot-rolled steel with increased strength. This steel is used in the manufacture of wheel disks and automobile parts. The new steel grade is manufactured at the 2000 mill in the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works sheet shop. “DP600 steel grade will allow us to increase…
DetailsIn January-March Ukraine mined 10 million tons of coal, down by 3.3% YoY, or by 327.8 thousand tons. In particular, power-generating coal output reached 8.6 million tons, up by 7.8% YoY, or by 616.8 thousand tons, coking coal – 1.8 million tons, down by 13.9%, or by 289 thousand tons. Despite the total increase in…
DetailsIn April Ukraine decreased steel output by 28.6% YoY, to 1.572 million tons. Pig iron output dropped by 30.1%, to 1.443 million tons. Rolled metal production decreased by 31.9%, to 1.341 million tons. In January-April Ukraine decreased steel production by 15.8% YoY, to 6.975 million tons, pig iron by 20.1%, to 6.324 million tons, rolled…
DetailsAbout 20 companies lost their licenses to develop deposits. The decision was made by the State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use. The licensing commission suspended the development of four coal deposits: Kok-Yangak, Kozhokelen (the section of Torpu), Suluktinskoye, and Turuk. “United Coal Company” lost two licenses for Karatutskoye field. “Altyn-Beshikkomur” LLC was deprived…
DetailsRosterminalugol JSC, the largest dedicated coal port in the Baltic region, a part of Russia’s largest coal port holding Port Management Company LLC, says it has exported 7 million tons of coal this year as of May 2. According to the company, the terminal’s throughput surged by 39% YoY. The milestone ton was loaded onto…
DetailsDTEK Pavlogradskaya Central Processing Factory in 43 years has processed 150 million tons of coal. This coal is supplied to 5 out of 7 Ukrainian thermal power plants, operating on gas-coal. In 2016 the factory processed 4.8 million tons of coal, an absolute maximum in its history, producing 2.9 million tons of concentrate. “The factory…
DetailsDTEK Pavlogradugol has reached a total record of coal mining in its history, having yielded 1.8 million tons of coal in March. The previous historical maximum was reached in December 2013 (1.683 million tons), then in September 2016 (1.674 million tons) and in November 2016 (1.678 million tons). The most coal in March was mined…
DetailsIn 2016 Velikoanadolskiy Refractory Works received 237.888 million UAH of net income, up by 50.1% YoY. According to the company statement, its net profit totaled 10.444 million UAH against the net loss of 30.159 million UAH in 2015. The undistributed profit was 14.288 million UAH, with EBITDA profit at 9.977 million UAH as opposed to…
DetailsState enterprises from Donetsk and Lugansk regions will head the list of the most profitless coal companies in 2017. Toretskugol with the coal prime cost of 5804 UAH per ton and Pervomayskugol (4250 UAH per ton) will get the most losses this year. The reason for this is ineffective management and non-transparent operation of the…
DetailsA new long face has been put into operation at a state enterprise Selidovugol mine. “The reserves of the long face are some 365 thousand tons of coal, that’s enough for a year for 2100 employees”, the Donetsk regional state administration chairman Pavel Zhebrivsky wrote on his Facebook page. The mine with the historical name…
DetailsLensib, a part of the state enterprise Lenzoloto, has started the gold washing season of 2017. At present the sand washing has begun on the river Bodaibo. As of May 1, the site has already yielded 12.874 kg of gold. By the end of the season the site intends to have washed 135 kg of…
DetailsThe machine-building shop of Omutninsk Iron and Steel Works has created a new manufacturing site. In April metal makers started producing solid-drawn pitchfork there. Earlier such a product was manufactured only at one enterprise, but it was shut down some 2 years ago. The company plans to sell the lawn and gardening tools all over…
DetailsThe Ministry of Economy of Mexico has prolonged for 5 more years the antidumping duties on Russian hot-rolled sheets. The duty of 29.3% is applied to the products with the thickness of 4.75-10 mm and width of not less than 600 mm made of steel containing at least 0.0008% of boron. The duty was initially…
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