Russia’s metals and mining group Mechel has prolonged an agreement to deliver up to 700,000 tons of premium quality coking coal to China’s Baosteel Resources until July 2019, it said in a statement on July 4. Yakutugol subsidiary will ship up to 40,000 tons every month. The price will be set monthly. CEO Oleg Kirzhov…
Mechel and Gazprombank are negotiating the attraction of investors to the Elginskoye deposits (Elga), but do not expect to find any this year. The share of Mechel in the project is 51%, and Gazprombank – 49%. Main negotiations are carried out with companies interested in supplying coal to their enterprises in South-East Asia. (Ukrainian metal)
Russian metals producer Mechel has retained 23 million tons of coal as a production target for 2018 but does not rule out underperforming, CEO Oleg Korzhov said at an annual general meeting. “The plan to produce 23 million tons of coal stands, but it will be hard to meet it as of today. We will…
Russian metals producer Mechel has prolonged its coal supply agreement to Japan’s JFE Steel for three years, until June 2021, the company said in a statement on June 7. Mechel will ship up to 1.5 million tons of coking coal concentrate produced by Mechel’s affiliate Yakutugol and PCI coal of Yuzhny Kuzbass to JFE Steel…
Mechel intends to buy Izhevsk Works of Metallurgy and Machine-Building (Izhmetmash). A group of Mechel representatives has held a meeting with the local ministry of industry. According to Udmurtia governor Alexander Brechalov, those were the second negotiations with the potential buyers. Earlier the works was offered to Izhora-Metall. On July 9 Izhmetmash will be reorganized.…
In January-March Mechel produced 1.055 million tons of steel, down by 6% YoY. Pig iron output also dropped by 6%. “We’ve focused on the manufacture of sections and mastering new sizes of beams. Because of the stable demand for these products, we have increased their output by 17%. We now produce some 20 types of…
In January-March Mechel decreased its net losses 1.7-fold YoY, to 5.1 billion rubles. According to the company statement, its revenue grew 2.2-fold, to 2 billion rubles. Gross profit increased 2.1-fold, to 2 billion rubles. Sales profit totaled 1.6 billion rubles, up 2.8-fold. The company fixed liabilities increased by 2.6%, to 239.7 billion rubles, while current…
Mechel has rented 10 BelAZ dump trucks within the agreement with the State Transport Leasing Company. According to Mechel statement, the total cost of the agreements is 900 million rubles ($14.5 million). The new machinery with the lifting capacity of 90 tons has already been transported to Korshunovsky Mining and Processing Works. 6 dump trucks…