The average monthly salary in Vologda region in January-March increased by 5.2% YoY, to 30361 rubles. According to the Vologdastat, in March the increase was even larger – 6.6% MoM, to 31794 rubles. The leaders are still the Cherepovets chemical enterprises, followed by Severstal, which increased average salary by 4.9%, to 69068 rubles in Q1.…
DetailsVyksa Iron and Steel Works will produce wheels of premium quality for the innovative trains of the Moscow subway. By the end of the year VMZ will have supplied 3 thousand wheels of new type to the manufacturer of wagons – Metrovagonmash. The diameter of the wheels produced of L-grade steel will be 860 mm.…
DetailsIn January-April Rusal saved 25.56 million rubles by decreasing electricity consumption. The company is one of the developers and initiators of implementation of a new mechanism in electricity consumption in Russia and the only company to participate in the program of the price-dependant decrease of electricity consumption, having joined it in 2017. The mechanism presupposes…
DetailsA batch of large diameter pipes produced at Zagorsky Pipe Works will be delivered to one of the most eastern parts of Russia using the multi-modal transportation. The lot includes 820 and 1020 mm diameter pipes produced under GOST 20295-85. The pipes will be used in the construction of the heating pipeline. At first the…
DetailsGold bars of Kara-Balta refinery meet international standards. This is confirmed by a special LBMA certificate issued to the enterprise. As the press service of Kyrgyzaltyn OJSC reported, the refining plant has successfully passed certification according to LBMA standards (London Bullion Market Association). The document confirms that, since 2016, the production at the refinery has…
DetailsThe Stepnaya mine in Pershotravensk, Dnieporpetrovsk region, has put into operation a new long face with reserves of over 800 thousand tons of coal. According to DTEK, the owner of the mine, investment in the development reached 70 million UAH. The new long face is expected to yield some 3 thousand tons of gas coal…
DetailsKomsomolskoye Mine Group, nationalized by the terrorist organization Donetsk People’s Republic, created and supported by Russia, has been transferred to the ownership of Vneshtorgservice. “I have an interesting document. This is the certificate of the registration in the so-called DPR of a new owner of one of the Metinvest assets – Komsomolskoye Mine Group. The…
DetailsBeloretsk Iron and Steel Works has provided its mother company Mechel with a 5-year loan of 1.35 billion rubles. The companies do not disclose the conditions of the deal. The goal of the loan is to carry out financial and commercial activity by Mechel. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn January-April gold miners of Khabarovsk Krai yielded 4418.5 kg of gold, up by 0.5 tons of the target. All the gold was obtained from ore deposits. The region has also exceeded silver output – 18180.1 kg instead of 14240 kg planned. According to the local environment ministry, the increase is the result of the…
DetailsUkrainian miners, as usual, do not receive salary for several months. But the Cabinet of Ministers claims that it has already provided money to clear debts, and salary will rise. The price of 1 ton of coal will increase from 1730 UAH to 2 thousand UAH. According to the minister of energy and coal industry…
DetailsAktyubinsk Copper Company, a part of Russian Copper Company, has set development plans. The Vesenne-Aralchinskoye deposits, situated near the border with Russia, will be operated on both sides of the border. For this AMK will construct a plant with the capacity of 500 thousand tons of ore per year. The mine will be operating for…
DetailsKarabashmed, a part of the Russia Copper Company, has started assembling the new automated copper-pouring line and three new converters with the volume of 150 tons each. The modernization of the machinery will increase the company capacity to 150 thousand tons of copper per year. Karabashmed will also reconstruct its power shop and the oxygen…
DetailsNorilsk Nickel has received a 521-million rubles loan from Sberbank for the construction of the magnetite concentrate drying shop of the Bystrinsky Mining and Processing Works. Bystrinskoye deposit is among the largest in the world as to copper, gold, silver and iron reserves. The GOK is planned to start operating in 2017 and will reach…
DetailsOn May 29 Zagorsky Pipe Works produced the first pipe for Gazprom. The first batch of pipes with 1020 and 1420 mm diameter and outer three-layer insulation will be supplied to the customer in June. The agreement on the delivery was reached in April. Under the contract ZTZ will produce over 121 thousand tons of…
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