Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant intends to start capital repairs of its ore-thermal furnace No. 2 in February 2018. “The furnace is old. We have planned to repair it in February next year”, the company CEO Oleg Bespalov said. The cost of the project is some 50 million UAH, and the repair will last for 45 days.…
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant, a part of Solway, could resume the imports of power-generating coal from Colombia in case the deliveries from Ukraine and CIS countries are blocked. “We have created a data base on coals. Colombian coal fits our technology well, but it’s an alternative variant”, he said. According to Bespalov, if deliveries of Ukrainian,…
The increase of railroad tariffs this year by 25%, planned by Ukrzaliznytsia, is inadmissible, the Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant CEO Oleg Bespalov believes. “They come and say that they need to increase tariffs to buy wagons, as they have no money”, he said. According to Bespalov, this has been heard before, but the situation with the…
In 2017 Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant intends to increase ore processing by 14% YoY, to 1.618 million tons, ferronickel output by 3.5%, to 82.7 thousand tons, and nickel manufacture by 3.3%, to 18.7 thousand tons. According to the company CEO Oleg Bespalov, in H1 the ferronickel output is expected to reach 40 thousand tons, nickel –…
In January-June Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant intends to carry out repairs of its main machinery valued at 46.9 million UAH. According to the company CEO Oleg Bespalov, in 2016 the plant carried out repairs valued at 50.33 million UAH. This year the company will also spend 31.3 million UAH on environment protection. The works intends to…
In 2016 Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant intends to receive 69.51 million UAH of profits as opposed to 244.2 million UAH of losses in 2015, if the UAH exchange rate and resources prices remain on their current levels. “Since April we’ve been working with profits”, said the company CEO Oleg Bespalov. In H1 the company received 49.41…
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant will buy anthracite coal from the South African Republic, if Ukraine experiences a sharp shortage of it. “We have worked out this issue. If there is no way to buy anthracite coals in Ukraine, we have a plan B. Though we do try to buy coal from Ukrainian suppliers or in Kazakhstan”,…
Due to the railroad transportation and electricity tariffs increase expenses of the Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant will reach 130 million UAH in 2016 affecting the prime cost. “Railroad tariffs went up by 15%, electricity tariffs are growing all the time. That’s a gigantic weight on our shoulders. And we still have to meet a certain prime…