The state company Gazprom invest has announced 3 auctions for the purchase of large diameter pipes valued at 8.2 billion rubles. The manufacturers of the pipes have to be Vyksa Iron and Steel Works and Volzhsk Pipe Works. According to Gazprom information, the pipes will be used in the construction of the Gryaznovets – Vyborg…
DetailsIn January-August DTEK Energo mined 15.2 million tons of gas coal, up by 13.2% YoY. After the anthracite blocks of combined heat and power plants are switched to gas coal, the need in this fuel will increase. “That is why now we witness the overfulfillment of targets of coal mining at our mining companies”, the…
DetailsThe court has arrested all the assets of the Zaporozhye Aluminum Works. “In order not to allow the theft of state property and the destruction of the enterprise, the investigators, the prosecutors and the court decided to arrest all the assets of the works”, the prosecutors’ office reported. The Zaporozhye region is investigating the criminal…
DetailsKaspersky Lab and the Nornickel group of companies have agreed to cooperate in the sphere of information security. The partnership is aimed at creating a comprehensive protection system for corporate and industrial networks, as well as integrating cutting edge technologies to combat cyberthreats and increase the overall security level of one of the world’s largest…
DetailsThe state enterprise Mirnogradugol has hired Vostokugleservice LLC to mine coal. The cost of the work is 3.8 million UAH. The company has to mine 3256 tons of coal from the first south long face of the Centralnaya mine. Thus, the average cost of the coal mining is 1167 UAH per ton. The contract is…
DetailsThe first vessel able to be serviced at the Mariupol trade seaport, has passed under the Kerch bridge. Having loaded 14.5 thousand tons of pig iron, the Kopan sailed to Italy. “Knowing of the limitations when going through the Kerch strait because of the construction of the bridge, the ship owners shortened the Kopan mast,…
DetailsSeverstal Distribution will supply 1800 tons of cold-rolled metal to the Volgogazoapparat company, which produces gas and electric stoves. The household appliances producers have very strict requirements as to the metal quality, among which the main are the surface purity, flatness of not more than 5 mm per 1 m, absence of defects on the…
DetailsThe state company Russian Railroads has started using decreasing coefficients when calculating tariffs for transportation of rolled sheet for NLMK and some other companies. The decreasing coefficient will be valid through December 31. It covers rolled sheet transportation from the railroad stations of Novolipetsk, Revda, Apparatnaya, Nizhneserginskaya, Yekaterinburg, Vorsino and Vladivostok. At the same time…
DetailsRosterminalugol, the largest dedicated coal port in the North West of Russia (a part of Port Management Company LLC) handled more than 15.9 million tons of export coal in January-August, up by 42% YoY, the terminal operator said in a press release. In the reporting period, Rosterminalugol unloaded 16.2 million tons of coal from 226,064…
DetailsDeputy Chairman of the Board of Kyrgyzaltyn JSC for Economy, Finance and Investments Bektur Sagynov told the deputies of the Respublika – Ata Jurt faction why Kyrgyzaltyn opposed the purchase of Thompson Creek. According to him, three members of the board of directors of Centerra Gold Inc. voted against the deal. “We didn’t have time…
DetailsThe Rodninskaya mine employees (a part of Mirnogradugol, Donetsk region) still cannot make the enterprise management clear salary debts. “The miners have issued an ultimatum to the enterprise managers and the Ministry of energy and coal industry on July salary debts clearing (2.6 million UAH) and August salary payment. Now the salary is paid with…
DetailsThe scheduled increase of railroad tariffs by 22.5% from October 1 will result in a significant increase of Azovstal products prime cost. “The transport component in the prime cost structure of our products is some 10-12%. That’s because we have expenses not only while shipping rolled metal, but also while bringing raw materials to the…
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