Lermontovsky Mining and Processing Works intends to resume operation on April 25, when the new machinery has been tested. Since the start of the year, the company has already shipped 51 tons of tungsten. Last year Lermontovsky GOK received a subsidy from the state (250 million rubles) to resume activities. The company purchased new machinery,…
DetailsIn 10 years Sredneuralsky Copper Works has processed over a quarter (26%) of metal slag, accumulated during 78 years of operation. According to the SUMZ chief environment engineer Marina Sycheva, each year the processing factory produces over 60 thousand tons of copper concentrate, which the works uses in its manufacture. Another product of slag processing…
DetailsIn 2017 Russian Copper Company enterprises paid over 3 billion rubles to the budget of the Chelyabinsk region, up by 50% YoY. Budgets of all levels received 5.6 billion rubles, up by 40% YoY. In 5 years the tax payments of RCC companies to the Chelyabinsk region budget increased 4-fold. Last year the enterprises invested…
DetailsThe supervisory boards of Azovstal, Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works, Zaporozhogneupor and Zaporozhkoks, all parts of Metinvest, have extended the offices of their CEO – Enver Tskitishvili, Taras Shevchenko, Sergey Gorman and Vitaly Litovka respectively – for one more year. The decisions were taken on April 2. The offices have been prolonged from April…
DetailsThe supervisory board of Dneprovsky By-Product Coke Plant has fired Pavel Rafalskiy from the office of the general manager of the company, appointing Yevgeniy Didus, the CEO of the Inkor and Co, a part of Metinvest, instead. The decision was taken on April 2. The office of Rafalskiy expired on April 2, while Didus was…
DetailsThe Eurasian Economic Commission has extended the antidumping duty on cold-deformed seamless stainless pipes supplied to the territory of the Union from China and Malaysia. The duty has been prolonged for the duration of another investigation – through January 18, 2019. The volume of the duty is 19.15% of the customs cost. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsThe prices of the main precious metals vary in Azerbaijan, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold increased by 15,079 manats, to 2275,416 manats per troy ounce compared to the price on April 2. The cost of silver increased by 0.2318 manats, to 28.1628 manats per ounce. The cost…
DetailsRosterminalugol JSC, the largest dedicated coal port in the European part of Russia, handled 5.02 million tons of coal in January-March, up by 2.4% YoY. Amid challenging ice conditions the terminal handled 71 vessels with average daily handling totaling 70,700 tons (up by 13.7%). In the first quarter of the year, coal unloading at the…
DetailsExport of Russian coal in January-March increased by 6.8% YoY, to 44.42 million tons, the Ministry of Energy said. In March coal exports from Russia totaled 15.638 million tons. (PortNews/Ukrainian metal)
DetailsKamensk-Uralsky Iron and Steel Works is commissioning the second stage of the rolling complex. The commissioning is carried out according to the schedule. The project will provide the manufacture of qualitatively new semi-finished products and increase the share of Russian wares of aluminum-lithium alloys in the total volume of supplies both to major local and…
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