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…
PerfoGrad LLC, Voronezh, has produced a batch of perforated sheets for the construction of the Yekaterinburg Arena. In particular, the company supplied 2 thousand square meters of the perforated sheets for the technical premises of the stadium. The company intends to supply 5 thousand square meters more. PerfoGrad specializes in the manufacture of perforated metal…
In December 2016 Ukraine produced 1.9 million tons of pig iron, 2 million tons of steel and 1.8 million tons of rolled metal. As of January 17, 21 out of 28 blast furnaces (75%), 18 out of 21 converters (86%), 8 out of 9 open-hearth furnaces (89%) and 5 out of 16 electric-arc furnaces (31%)…
