The total throughput of the Novorosiisk Sea Trade Port in January increased by 6.4% YoY, to 12.67 million tons. In particular, iron ore raw materials throughput dropped by 15.9% YoY, to 177 thousand tons, that of coal – increased by 45%, to 178 thousand tons. Ferrous metals throughput went up by 6.2%, to 963 thousand…
The governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev visited the town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, where the iron and steel works with the capacity of 160 thousand tons of hot-rolled rebars per year has been constructing since 2013. The project is built in stages. The first stage, providing the construction of the energy substation, was finished last…
5 plants will be opened in Karaganda region this year, the regional akim (governor) Nurmukhambet Abdibekov said. In particular, copper leaching and refractory materials plants will be constructed. The new companies will be created under the Entrepreneurship road map. “10 projects will be implemented under the roadmap. Aside from the roadmap we will also create…
In 2000-2015 Russian metal companies invested a lot into their own development to increase competitiveness and satisfy the local demand in metal products both in quality and in volume. Russian Steel enterprises investments into ferrous metallurgy in 2000-2015 totaled 1.868 trillion rubles, with annual investments growing from 23 billion in 2000 to 135 billion in…
In January Ukrainian metal companies increased gas consumption by 5.2% YoY, or by 10 million cubic meters, to 200 million cubic meters. In December 2016 gas consumption grew by 35 million cubic meters MoM, to 190 million cubic meters. January average daily gas consumption totaled 6.5 million cubic meters, up by 0.3 million MoM. Electricity…
Yuzno-Sakhalinsk is carrying out a major project on the construction of the Aqua-City multi-functional complex, which will become the largest aqua-park in the Far East. Andrometa supplies metal structures for the construction. So far the company has supplied 2 thousand tons of welded structures. (Ukrainian metal)
Russian metallurgical company Ruspolymet plans to launch a 1.14 billion ruble plant to produce powdered high-speed steel billets for metal-cutting tools in the Sarov technological cluster in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the company’s board of directors chairman Viktor Klochai announced. The project will be implemented by Ruspolymet’s subsidiary Grankom under state industrial corporation Rosatom’s scientific…
In February the port of Ust-Luga dispatched 201 wagons with large steel plates for Nord Stream-2 (1,005 plates), says press center of Commercial Sea Port of Ust-Luga. From the beginning of the project in October 2016, the port dispatched more than 5,000 steel plates. In January 294 railcars with steel plates left Ust-Luga for Vyksa…
