ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih will shut down one of its blast furnaces; two coking batteries and a sintering shop because they don’t correspond to the environmental directives of EU according to BAT. “Ukraine has no BAT norms as yet, but AMKR European companies have already switched to them”, said the company environmental director Liana Maksimenko. AMKR…
Dniepropetrovsk region has started implementing a new environment program, aimed at decreasing air pollution and improving water quality. Industrial companies of the region will invest over 26 billion UAH into modernization in the nearest decade. This year they have already invested 300 million UAH, with major project underway at Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works, ArcelorMittal…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has issued Sustainable Development Report 2015. The non-financial report demonstrates the results of the company activity in the sphere of 10 goals of sustainable development: health and safety, products and infrastructure, resources and wastes; air, land and water; energy; supply chains; talented scientists and engineers; development of local communities and the contribution of the…
In 2015 ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih fired several dozens of employees, summoned to serve in the army. According to the Ukrainian legislation, such conscripts retain their work place and receive average monthly salary. And they cannot be fired according to the Labor Codex. Some of the conscripts filed a suitcase as the company refused to employ…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has opened a metal warehouse in the central region of Ukraine, in the city of Dnieper (renamed from Dniepropetrovsk). “This is our 8th warehouse in Ukraine, we plan to supply over 3 thousand tons of metal from there each month. The warehouse carries all the AMKR products”, said the company in its…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has created a private company Steel Service to provide auxiliary services to manufacturing processes of the company. “Steel Service will provide high quality service to AMKR from the single center. We can take any auxiliary function and develop it, increasing its quality and implementing innovations”, said the company director Irina Footrook. (Ukrainian…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has started producing a new type of reinforcement steel – A400 die-rolled section rebar with 6 mm diameter according to DSTU 3760:2006. Such rebars are used in housing and industrial construction. “We have increased the range of our rolled products from 22 types to 56. The new A400 rebars have been developed…
ArcelorMIttal Kriviy Rih has dismissed three members of the supervisory board ahead of time. Among them is the ex-head of the President Secretariat Oleg Rybachuk. According to the company statement, Frantisek Chowaniec and Gerhard Renz have also been dismissed. At the same time ArcelorMittal Berislav has dismissed Wilhelmer Michael from the office of the supervisory…