Bratsk Aluminum Works has received 2 peripheral anode fluting machines. The new machinery has been designed by the company engineers and produced at Rusal subsidiary in Krasnoyarsk. The program to replace machinery at BrAZ has been carried out since 2015. “The new machines are more efficient”, the BrAZ managing director Yevgeniy Zenkin said. The program…
DetailsThe ex-MP of the Verkhovnaya Rada Ihor Gumenyuk is leaving the beneficiaries of Krasnolimanskoye LLC. The seller has already received 10% of the prepayment. The rest should be paid by October. Gumenyuk is selling all his shares (72%). Together with him two minor shareholders also leave the company – Vasiliy Mikulin and Irina Fridman, each…
DetailsThe supervisory board of the Yasinovsky By-Product Coke Plant, situated on the Ukraine-uncontrolled territory, has decreased the number of its members from 7 to 3, having extended the office of the acting chairman Leonid Kuzmichev for 3 years. The other two members, who have remained in the board, are Tatyana Varavka and Marina Kremen. (Ukrainian…
DetailsIn 2016 Ukraine imported $13.07 million worth of gold, down almost 2-fold YoY. According to the State Fiscal Service, the Netherlands supplied the most gold last year – $8.4 million, Switzerland – $3.8 million. Silver imports dropped as well – by 7.1%, to $3.6 million. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsThe Kharkiv Machine-Building Works “Corum Svet shakhtera” has produced a modernized KA-200 combine for the mine named after Space Heroes. The combine will be used to mechanically take coal from breakage faces and has a chainless haulage system, which increases the equipment life time. The machine will operate at the depth of 370 meters and…
DetailsInterpipe has appointed Andrei Lukyanov the new products and resources director. The new manager began working on August 1. Lukyanov started working at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (Russia), he then was the transformation director at ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih (2011-2013). While working for Boston Consulting Group Lukyanov participated in Interpipe strategy projects. Before coming…
DetailsAzerGold has concluded an agreement with Bestcomp Group for the delivery of IT-equipment (computers and accessories). The cost of the contract is 211.57 thousand manats. AzerGold was created by the president Ilham Aliyev’s decree in 2015. It prospects, develops and manages gold- and iron-bearing sites Garadag, Chovdar, Geydag, Dagkesemen, Kokhnemeden and the Kyuryakchai basin. (Ukrainian…
DetailsIn January-July Russia increased raw and powder gold manufacture by 11.7% YoY. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in July gold output increased by 12.1% YoY, but dropped by 0.1% MoM. (Ukrainian metal)
Details5 ultrasonic testing units by ScanMaster and BiA have been assembled at the forging complex in the town of Verkhnyaya Salda. Investments totaled 2.7 million euro (188.6 million rubles). VSMPO plans to unite all the ultrasound testing units in one place. For this in July the company started moving 8 units from the south extension…
DetailsOmutninsk Iron and Steel Works is carrying out its program of technical revamping. At present the company is preparing to modernize its steel-smelting capacities, in particular repair its open-hearth shop premises. OMZ faced a shortage of steel because of the increase of rolled metal capacities with the mill-500 being put into operation. To balance the…
DetailsIn January-June, according to the customs statistics, Russia imported 130.4 thousand tons of strips from Austria. In June imports totaled 13 thousand tons, in May – 30.7 thousand tons, the largest volume since October 2016, when Russia started importing strips from Austria. The main customer is Vyksa Iron and Steel Works, which supplies large diameter…
DetailsThe State Security Service has uncovered officials who have bought equipment for a Volyn region state mine in the pro-Russian terrorist-occupied Donbass. An official was born in the now temporarily occupied regions. And he has bought equipment valued at 25 million UAH from a company registered in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic. To adapt the…
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