The metal trading company of Mechel – Mechel-Service LLC – has supplied 210 tons of rebars for the construction of the first wind park in Russia, situated near the town of Ulyanovsk. The first wind power plant will consist of 14 generators (35 MW). Since the beginning of the year Mechel-Service has supplied 210 tons…
DetailsSeverstal is participating in the construction of a stadium in Kaliningrad. According to the company statement, it has already supplied 200 tons of rolled metal to be used in the construction of the roof and the recreation zone of the building. “The wide range of products offered by Severstal to the construction industry, as well…
DetailsGerman Pikhoya, a member of the management board of Russian nanotechnology company Rusnano and former CEO of gold producer Polyus, may become CEO of gold miner GV Gold. Pikhoya has left Rusnano to “chair a large gold producing company,” Rusnano said without any specifications. Pikhoya said he would be ready to discuss the topic only…
DetailsUkrmetallurgprom has addressed the Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groysman asking him to cancel the railroad tariff and port fee discounts for coal and ore transportation from Russia from Q2. The enterprise president Alexander Kalenkov believes that under present circumstances such a decision will make the use of the local transportation infrastructure more efficient and…
DetailsMetinvest has replaced the director of Krasnodonugol, which has lost control over its assets on the uncontrolled territory of the Lugansk region. According to the company statement, the supervisory board ended the office of the Alexander Angelovsky and appointed Valentin Kononov the acting CEO instead. DTEK has replaced director of Komsomolets Donbassa mine, which has…
DetailsThe Guryevsk Iron and Steel Works has started producing a new product type – 35 mm steel milling balls. The new product corresponds to the GOST 7524-2015. Around 200 tons of new balls have already been supplied to the customers. GMZ is one of the leaders on the Russian market of milling balls. It can…
DetailsIn January-February Kazakhstan decreased copper cathodes and raw zinc output by 3.3% and by 1% YoY respectively. According to the Statistics committee of the Economy Ministry, raw steel output went up by 8.6% YoY. Kaz Minerals and KazZinc produce most of the metal. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn February Dneprospetsstal produced 19933 tons of steel and 13235 tons of rolled metal, down by 1.8% and by 6.6% MoM respectively. The total cost of the products manufactured is 603172 thousand UAH, down by 2.7% MoM. In January-February DSS produced 40233 tons of steel and 27408 tons of rolled metal, up by 28.5% and…
DetailsKyrgyzstan is deciding on construction of the copper-smelting works, according to the State committee on industry, energy and soil. To process concentrate the construction of the copper works and the implementation of the new technologies are needed, which are currently absent in Kyrgyzstan. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsOMZ-Spetsstal has produced the largest forging ingot in the company history – weighing 443 tons. The ingot will be used to produce a heavy supporting roll for the 5000 mill of the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. The size of the future product: diameter – 2.36 meters, length – 12 meters. The total weight of…
DetailsThe increase of railroad tariffs this year by 25%, planned by Ukrzaliznytsia, is inadmissible, the Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant CEO Oleg Bespalov believes. “They come and say that they need to increase tariffs to buy wagons, as they have no money”, he said. According to Bespalov, this has been heard before, but the situation with the…
DetailsIn 2016 Ferrexpo received $189.2 million of net profits, up 6-fold YoY, with revenue up by 2.6%, to $986.33 million. According to the company statement, its EBITDA increased by 20%, to $375 million. At the same time its net debt decreased by 32% YoY, to $589 million. Capital investments last year dropped by 25%, to…
DetailsUkrainian companies in January imported coking coal for CAD 48.2 million ($36.2 million under the current exchange rate) from Canada, while in January 2016 no coking coal was imported, Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine Roman Waschuk reported. He said that British Columbia had large stocks of coking coal and production facilities. Supplies from the province could…
DetailsThe privatization of the Chervonogradskaya central processing factory has been named illegal, and the Lviv regional commercial court of appeals returned its assets to the state ownership. After the privatization in 2008 and the creation of the Lviv Coal Company the state controlled 37.58% of shares in the new company, with 62% controlled by the…
DetailsMetinvest plans to finish restructuring debt on eurobonds and pre-export financing (PXF) and issue just over $1.971 billion in new bonds on March 22, the Ukrainian mining and metallurgical holding said in a statement filed with the Irish Stock Exchange. The holding will also complete the formalities for a new PXF facility worth $1.109 billion.…
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