In 2016 Ukrainian metal companies increased electricity consumption by 0.02% YoY, to 28.76 billion kW-h. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, machine-building companies increased electricity consumption by 0.2%, to 3.676 billion kW-h, while chemical companies consumed 2.968 billion kW-h of electricity, down by 3.8%. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-December 2016 Russian seaports handled 721.7 million tons of cargo (up by 6.7% YoY), says the press center of Association of Commercial Sea Ports. Transshipment of dry bulk cargo totaled 335.8 million tons (+7.5%) including 136.3 million tons of coal (+10.5%), 28.2 million tons of ferrous metals (+7.8%), 8.7 million tons of ore (+29.6%),…
As of January 12, Ukrainian mining and metal companies are holding 38 cargo trains (2092 cars). “The cars are being held because the companies are unable to unload or load them”, Ukrzaliznytsia press-service reported. “In the first 10 days of January Ukrzaliznytsia supplied 47.8 thousand railroad cars for iron ore raw materials, while the companies…
Azerbaijan is closing down its Steel Production Complex. Azerbaijani Steel Production Complex was created in April 2013 to design, construct and manage the steel-manufacturing works. The complex had to deal with ore mining through steel-smelting. By 2018 Azerbaijan also planned to have created several works and shops to be managed by the complex, in particular…
In 2016 Ukrainian metal manufacturers increased prices by 35.7% YoY. In 2015 prices grew by 25.4% YoY, in 2014 – by 31.7%. According to the State Statistics Service, coal and metallic ore prices saw the largest increase – by 18.6% and by 18.9% YoY. In December 2016 iron ore prices grew by 20.4% and of…
In 2016 prices of the companies in the processing industry grew by 19.6%, in mining – by 14.1%. The wares produced became more expensive by 16.8% YoY, and services – by 3.6%. The largest increase was observed in ferroalloys – by 54%, lead – by 51.9%, rolled ferrous metals – by 39.8%, precious metals –…
Expert Council of the Industry’s Development Fund approved 12 preferential loans amounting up to 2.93 billion rubles (approximately $48.305 million). According to one of them, company Rare Metals of Siberia plans to organize a plant to process beryllium ores into pure beryllium and its compounds. Rare Metals of Siberia has a technology for primary raw…
The Ministry of economical development of Russia believes that in 2017 metal and metal wares output will grow by 1% YoY, with 1.6% and 1.8% growth forecast for 2018 and 2019. Rolled metal growth will be slower (less by 1%), but by 2019 Russia will be producing 61 million tons of rolled metal per year…