Energomashspetsstal has produced machinery for the fourth block of the Indian Nuclear Power Plant “Kudankulam”. According to the company statement, it has produced 361 units of equipment. The total weight under the contract is 3.952 thousand tons. The company has produced metallurgical billets for steam-generators, pressurizers, main reactor coolant pipe, main circulation pump, etc. (Ukrainian…
DetailsIn 2016 Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Works invested 1.135 billion rubles into ecological modernization, with 1 billion rubles to be invested in 2017. For the past several years the main goal of the company was to start producing highly technological wares from aluminum produced without increasing the metal output volumes. Thus the works has been modernizing its…
DetailsChelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works, a part of Mechel, hit several historical output highs in March. In particular, the blast furnace shop produced over 370 thousand tons of pig iron, the highest volume since 2009. Steel smelting in the oxygen-converter shop reached 350 thousand tons, which was an absolute record since the shop’s putting into…
DetailsMetinvest has extended the office of the current CEO of the Central Mining and Processing Works Dmitry Shevchik for a year. Shevchik’s office has been extended from Aril 4, 2017 till April 2, 2018. Dmitry Shevchik was appointed CGOK CEO on September 1, 2015. Earlier he worked as the deputy chairman and deputy CEO on…
DetailsMetinvest has extended the office of the current CEO of the Central Mining and Processing Works Dmitry Shevchik for a year. Shevchik’s office has been extended from Aril 4, 2017 till April 2, 2018. Dmitry Shevchik was appointed CGOK CEO on September 1, 2015. Earlier he worked as the deputy chairman and deputy CEO on…
DetailsDTEK Burshtyn TPP has imposed limitations on coal deliveries from state mines. According to the minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik, there is no shortage of G and D grade coal, mined in the western regions, but there could be problems with sales. “Gas-coal stocks increase each day”, he noted. On March 31,…
DetailsThe Federal Antimonopoly Service has stopped investigation in Mechel, Severstal and Evraz alleged increase of rebars prices. Last summer constructors and machine-builders applied to FAS as to the drastic increase in metal prices, in particular, of rebars (by 34-103% from December 2015 till May 2016). The service started investigating the matter in July 2016, suspecting…
DetailsIn January-March UGOK produced 3.038 million tons of iron ore concentrate, up by 11.9% YoY. According to the company statement, iron ore sinter production increased by 14%, to 450.8 thousand tons. In March UGOK produced 1.05 million tons of concentrate, up by 13.4% YoY, sinter output dropped by 12.9%, to 111.9 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsThe UMG Resource company, which specializes in industrial waste management, in 2016 increased its revenue from the sales of ash-slag materials by 47.5% YoY, to 149 million UAH. Sales of ash-slag materials (fly ash, wet fly ash, slag, ash slag) increased by 38.7%, to 480,000 tons. Products were dispatched from the DTEK’s thermal power plants…
DetailsThe Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Ildar Khalikov has met the representatives of the Gemont company (Turkey) and discussed the prospects of further cooperation. In particular the parties discussed the creation of a metallurgical works to produce rolled sheet. The project has been developed by Gemont, which specializes in manufacture and assembly of…
DetailsIn 2015 the state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works increased uranium concentrate output by 5.8% YoY, or by 54 tons, to 980 tons, in 2016 – by 2.6%, to 1005.1 tons. The Ministry of energy and coal industry expects that in 2017 VostGOK will increase concentrate output by 21.5% YoY, or by 215.9 tons,…
DetailsIn 2016 the state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works increased its net profits 37.2-fold YoY, or by 480.617 million UAH, to 493.891 million UAH. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, the company net income in 2016 dropped by 5.8%, or by 164.107 million UAH, to 2680.422 million UAH, while its bulk…
DetailsIn the first quarter of 2017 Ukraine decreased carbon steel output by 7.9% YoY, to 5.596 million tons. This is the minimal level since March 2015. Pig iron manufacture dropped by 13.6% YoY, to 5.054 million tons, that of rolled metal – by 8.1%, to 4.909 million tons. Metallurgical coke output decreased by 21.4%, to…
DetailsRussian Copper Company (RCC) intends to invest 670 million rubles to boost production at its Kyshtym copper and electrolytic facility, the company said in a statement on April 3. A project to upgrade the copper electrolysis unit will be finished in January 2018 and will need 380 million rubles of investment while 288 million rubles…
DetailsUkraine seeks to import 2.5-3 million tons of anthracite from the United States, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has said. “We have received information that we can supply around 2.5-3 million tons of coal from the United States. I as minister has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of State asking…
DetailsIn March Zaporizhstal produced 325 thousand tons of steel, up by 9.2% YoY. According to the company statement, pig iron output increased by 6.7%, to 286.5 thousand tons, rolled metal – dropped by 3.1%, to 273.3 thousand tons. In Q1 Zaporizhstal produced 825.5 thousand tons of pig iron, 944.5 thousand tons of steel and 790.3…
DetailsThe Amur artel has decreased its output plan because of the thinning of deposits. This year the new platinum output target is 1400 kg, down from 1526 kg in 2016. The constant decrease in Konder deposits output has been observed for several years. In 2014 the artel yielded 3794 kg of platinum, in 2015 –…
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