2016-10-28 10:00:31 SAZ launches the first RA-550 cell
Rusal announced the launch of the first RA-550 pot of new generation running at over 550 kA at the Sayanogorsk aluminium smelter (SAZ) as part of a $28 mln project.
The key benefit of the new pots is their energy efficiency. A RA-550 cell consumes around 12 kW*h/kg of ...
2016-10-26 17:30:03 Rusal files a request for arbitration against Ukraine
Rusal announced that on 25 October 2016 two of its subsidiaries, Emergofin and Velbay Holdings filed a request for arbitration against Ukraine pursuant to Article 36 of the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States and Article 9 of the ...
2016-10-17 12:08:33 NLMK Group expands use of recoverables in midstream operations
NLMK Group has completed hot-testing of its new crushing and screening unit for the processing of steelmaking slag at its Lipetsk production site.
The project will double the amount of scrap, or ‘metal inclusions‘, extracted from waste and returned to the production ...
2016-10-14 16:45:17 TMK reduced steel pipes sales
In the nine months of 2016, TMK’s plants shipped 2,558 thousand tonnes of tubular products, down 12.8% y-o-y. This decline was mainly due to lower welded pipe sales.
Seamless pipe shipments were down 1.9% to 1,765 thousand tonnes, primarily due to lower shipments of ...
2016-10-12 06:00:28 TMK ships pipe to build 2018 World Cup stadiums
TMK has shipped a batch of seamless pipe for the construction of Mordovia Arena stadium in Saransk, which will host the 2018 FIFA World Cup matches. The contractor for the new stadium will receive 210 tonnes of 219 mm and 426 mm S440 grade steel seamless pipe.
This is not the ...
2016-10-10 12:15:03 EVRAZ received new TSI certificate for its rails
EVRAZ ZSMK has obtained a TSI certificate on its 49 E1 rail produced to the European standard. The mill offers these rails both non-treated and head-hardened in lengths up to 100 meters. The certificate issued by the German TUV Rheinland InterTraffic allows to supply the 49 E1 rail to ...
2016-10-10 06:00:30 Norilsk Nickel signed $500 million RCF
Norilsk Nickel (further the company) has announced the signing of a 5-year $500 million committed revolving back-stop credit facility (RCF) with a syndicate of international banks.
Commerzbank, HSBC Bank, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and UniCredit Bank are ...
2016-10-05 17:39:50 Gazprom and ChelPipe sign a roadmap for launching new generation pipe production
Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Gazprom, and Andrey Komarov, a shareholder and member of the Board of Directors of ChelPipe, signed a roadmap for launching the production of new generation pipes.
Under the roadmap, ChelPipe will develop for Gazprom a laser ...
2016-10-04 12:02:29 NLMK Group and KamAZ expand cooperation
NLMK Group, and KamAZ, Russia’s leading heavy-duty truck manufacturer, have held their first Coordinating Council. At a meeting held in Naberezhnye Chelny, the two companies discussed steel deliveries, as well as the possibility of manufacturing new machinery for NLMK, including with ...
2016-10-04 11:00:57 Metalloinvest and Aktobe Rail and Section Works sign long-term contract
Metalloinvest and Aktobe Rail and Section Works in Kazakhstan have signed a long-term contract for the supply of rail and shaped billets.
Under the terms of the agreement, the shipments will amount more than 600,000 tonnes in total. The rail and shaped billets will be supplied ...
2016-10-03 11:56:36 NLMK bolsters efficiency of blast furnace operations
NLMK Group has put Blast Furnace N6 (BF-6) back into operation after a scheduled overhaul at the Group’s main production site in Lipetsk.
The overhaul enables uninterrupted operation of the blast furnace and excellent product quality for the long term. It also increases ...
2016-10-03 06:00:43 Norilsk Nickel received new credit
Norilsk Nickel announced the signing of a 13-year 37,8 million euro credit facility agreement with Commerzbank under Euler Hermes cover.
Sergey Malyshev, the Company’s Senior Vice-president and Chief Financial Officer commented: “Considering our large-scale ...
2016-09-29 14:15:04 Kamastal received certificates of Lloyd’s Register
Kamastal (a subsudiary of Motovilikha Plants) has been tested for compliance with the requirements of Lloyd's Register and included in its catalog.
Kamastal received Lloyd's Register certificates for steelmaking and semi-finished products (ingots and blooms) manufacturing as ...
2016-09-28 06:00:19 Severstal and Rutgers Group lainched joint venture
Severstal and Rutgers Group (Belgium) announced a new joint venture: Rutgers Severtar.
The Rutgers Severtar facility will be built in place of the old coal-tar processing unit at Cherepovets Steel Mill’s coke production plant. Rutgers Group will own 65.3% of the facility, ...
2016-09-27 11:50:22 ChelPipe shipped the first 3,300 tons of pipes for Nord Stream 2
The ChelPipe Group has shipped the first 3,300 tons of large diameter pipes (LDP) for the construction of the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline.
The official shipment ceremony was held in Chelyabinsk in the presence of ChelPipe Group shareholders Andrey Komarov and Alexandr Fyodorov, ...
2016-09-26 06:00:20 NLMK Group opens sales office in Peru
NLMK Group has announced the opening of its new sales office in Lima, Peru. The new sales office and warehouse will not only bolster NLMK Group’s position in the promising Peruvian market but also provide convenient supply routes to the entire South American Pacific coast. ...
2016-09-14 17:05:00 World’s largest banks visit Novolipetsk
Representatives of 16 banks – world’s leading lenders and NLMK’s major partners – visited Novolipetsk, NLMK Group’s main production facility in Lipetsk.
Representatives of leading financial institutions met with the management of NLMK Group and ...
2016-09-12 06:00:48 Eurasia Mining shipped fist batch of concentrate from West Kytlim
Eurasia Mining has shipped the first batch of concentrate from West Kytlim deposit to the Ekaterinburg Non-ferrous Metals Processing Plant (EZOCM).
Eurasia Mining had previously agreed terms with EZOCM and has commenced shipment of raw platinum concentrate from its mine in ...
2016-09-09 06:00:11 Dagong affirms Metalloinvest’s rating
Metalloinvest announced that Dagong Global Credit Rating (Dagong), a Chinese credit rating agency, has affirmed the Company’s ‘BBB+’ long-term issuer credit rating in domestic and foreign currencies with a Stable outlook. According to the national scale of China, this is ...
2016-09-08 15:41:45 Arconic SMZ and VSMPO-Avisma launched joint venture
Arconic SMZ, Russia’s largest producer of fabricated aluminum, and VSMPO-Avisma Corporation, the world′s largest manufacturer of titanium ingots and forged products, today announce the operational launch of its joint venture – named AlTi Forge - after receiving all ...
2016-09-08 06:00:33 Highland Gold signed two agreements for state support of Kekura
Highland Gold has signed two agreements with state agencies on financing and infrastructure to aid in the development of Kekura, which is located the Far Eastern province of Chukotka.
In the first agreement, the Far East Development Fund (FEDF) committed to providing Highland ...
2016-09-08 06:00:28 Премии на алюминий в Японии могут упасть до семилетнего минимума
Японские потребители стремятся обеспечить приемлемые для них объемы закупок алюминия с помощью годовых контрактов вместо спотовых, причем по как можно меньшим ценам.
«Довольно много алюминия накопилось на складах, поэтому мы можем заключать более выгодные сделки, если будем ...
2016-09-08 06:00:04 EVRAZ rails certified with Deutsche Bahn
EVRAZ ZSMK has successfully completed the qualification tests of its rails with Deutsche Bahn and received the HPQ certificate from the German operator. The document allows EVRAZ, after the completion of the ongoing track tests, to bid in Deutsche Bahn's tenders starting from 2017. ...
2016-09-07 11:40:08 TMK ships a large batch of premiumproducts to the Yamal LNG
TMK has shipped a batch of premium tubular products to Yamal LNG, finalizing the delivery of shipments, contracted for 2016.
TMK has been a supplier of premium tubular products for Yamal LNG (develops the South-Tambeyskoye field in the North-East of the Yamal Peninsula) since ...
2016-09-07 06:00:08 Amur Minerals will cooperate with IG Copper
Amur Minerals, a far east Russian sulphide nickel copper explorer, is pleased to announce the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent with IG Copper to investigate potential synergies in processing the companies’ respective sulphide concentrates.
Amur Minerals plans to ...
2016-09-06 14:00:55 NLMK Group supports fair competition
NLMK Group welcomes the determination of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) against an issuance of antidumping duty orders on imports of cold-rolled flat steel products from Russia.
USITC has decided not to issue duty orders on Russian cold-rolled flat ...
2016-09-06 12:00:40 Novokuznetsk Aluminum Plant started the production of new food alloys
Novokuznetsk Aluminum Plant (a subsidiary of of Rusal) started the production of several new alloys demanded by the domestic food industry.
Customer special alloys is a Russian manufacturer, producing products for tourism and recreation: barbecue, smokehouse, skewers, campfire ...
2016-09-06 11:48:30 В Улан-Удэ построят уникальный ледовый дворец
В столице Бурятии возведут уникальный объект - ледовую арену, совмещенную с океанариумом. Предварительная стоимость проекта составит 1,4 млрд руб, сообщают местные СМИ.
Проект «Селенга» предполагает возведение ледовой арены, сопряжённую с океанариумом, в котором ...
2016-09-06 11:30:06 Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Works plans to sale girder products to European Union
Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Works (a subsidiary of Mechel Group) has certified its girder products according to European quality standards and can now deliver it to the European Union. The products has been tested by an independent laboratory in Germany. Experts also conducted surveillance ...
2016-09-06 06:00:51 Stans Energy can help to restart lithium ores mine in Russia
Stans Energy announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (the MOU) for an option to acquire 100% of Pervomayskiy GOK, the owner of a Lithium Mineralization Stockpile), the Zabaikalsky Mill and supporting infrastructure.
Under the terms of the MOU, Stans Energy ...
2016-09-05 06:00:55 China National Gold Group buys deposit in Russia
Indiand-based company Sun Gold is selling China National Gold Group 70% share in the project of the exploration of the Kluchevskoe gold deposit in Zabakalskiy region.
Kluchevskoe deposit resources are 74.4 tonnes of gold. Earlier Sun Gold planned to run a processing plant on the ...
2016-09-05 06:00:25 STW is to launch new project
Severskiy Tube Works (STW) continues reconstruction of a steel tubes production facility, Mikhail Zuev, STWs Managing Director told Denis Pasler, Chairman of the Government of the Sverdlovsk area when he visited this enterprise.
«Our plant produces high demand range of steel ...
2016-09-01 10:00:02 Rusal changed heads of two aluminium smelters
Today Rusal announced senior staff appointments within Aluminium Division.
Oleg Buts has been appointed as Managing Director of Irkutsk Aluminium Smelter (IrkAZ). Prior to the appointment, Mr Buts worked as the Director of Department for Production System Training at Production ...
2016-08-29 11:00:03 Severstal will ship flat rolled steel for Arctech Helsinki Shipyard
Severstal has announced that it won the tender for the delivery of flat rolled steel to Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, Finland.
According its press release, Severstal will ship 8,330 tonnes of flat rolled steel, which will be used for a ice breaker bulding.
Flat rolled steel will ...
2016-08-26 12:00:48 Norilsk Nickel closed the old Nickel plant
Norilsk Nickel announced today, that another major milestone of the strategic downstream reconfiguration has been reached whereby the outdated Nickel plant in the city of Norilsk was fully decommissioned two months ahead of the schedule. On August 17, production the nickel-refining workshop ...
2016-08-26 10:00:04 Metalloinvest rose production in 1H 2016
In 1H2016 Metalloinvest revenue dropped by 20.8% to $1,931 mln, net income – by 17.2% to $438 mln.
But Metalloinvest rose iron ore production by 4.6% to 20.4 mln tonnes, pellets – by 4.9% to 12.3 meln tonnes, HDB/DRI – by 5.9% to 2.9 mln tonnes.
Also ...
2016-08-25 06:00:42 TMK sold LDP to Turkmenenergo
TMK has shipped large diameter longitudinal pipe (LDP) to Turkmenenergo State Power Corporation of Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Energy to support the construction of a gas supply pipeline to the Mary-3 gas turbine power plant.
The shipment totalled more than 17,000 tonnes ...
2016-08-23 16:30:55 TMK ships premium tubular products for Chayandinskoye field
TMK, one of the world’s leading producers of tubular products for the oil and gas industry, has shipped a large batch of premium threaded connection pipe to Gazprom Dobycha Noyabrsk.
The shipment comprised casing pipe with TMK GF and TMK FMC threaded connections, as well ...
2016-08-23 15:00:55 Polymetal is to expand Amursk POX plant
Polymetal announced that its Board of Directors has approved the debottlenecking project at the Amursk POX plant.
The debottlenecking project will expand the capacity of the existing Amursk POX plant by approximately 50% in terms of concentrate processed. The key additions to ...
2016-08-19 16:28:15 Metalloinvest increases pellet shipments to NLMK
Metalloinvest is increasing shipments of pellets to Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) by 900,000 tonnes in the second half of 2016. Lebedinsky GOK and Mikhailovsky GOK will supply the products to NLMK’s main production site in Lipetsk. The total volume of pellet shipments this year will amount ...
2016-08-18 11:05:05 Rusal produced first output of scandium oxide
Rusal started tge production of scandium oxide of the concentration exceeding 99%. The market price of the new product is up to $2,000 per kg.
The new product output commenced at the Urals Aluminium Smelter (UAZ) after the installation and launch of the pilot unit for the ...
2016-08-17 06:00:17 СhelPipe Group shipped 865,000 tonnes of pipes in H1 2016
Over the first six months of 2016, ChelPipe Group’s pipe division production sites - the Chelyabinsk Pipe plant and Pervouralsk Pipe plant, shipped 865,000 tonnes of steel pipes to the customers, which is less by 19% than the amount of the same period in 2015 (-206,000 tonnes). The ...
2016-08-16 15:00:03 NLMK Group and Novatek extend gas supply contract
NLMK Group has signed an additional agreement to its contract with Novatek for the supply of natural gas to the Lipetsk site. Similar additional agreements to contracts for the supply of natural gas to NLMK Group’s other key Russian production facilities* will be signed in the nearest ...
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2016-08-15 15:00:45 ChelPipe Group rises profit and reduces debt
ChelPipe Group has announced IFRS Financial Results for 1H 2016.
According to its press release, the gross profit went up by 2% to 21,945 mln rubles, with EBIDTA growing by 2,503 mln rubles. The EBITDA margin rose by 5.7 percentage points to 24.7% as a result of the improved ...
2016-08-10 10:00:36 IMH increased coking coal concentrate production
In the first half of 2016 production of coking coal at Industrial Metallurgical Holding (IMH) totaled 925,000 tonnes. that is 13% less compared to the first half of 2015. Reduced production accounts for scheduled lava reinstallation at the Butovskaya coking coal mine.
Coking ...
2016-08-09 11:00:52 NLMK Group boosts energy efficiency of hydrogen production
NLMK Group has begun commercial operation of a hydrogen unit that generates hydrogen from natural gas through vapour reforming at VIZ-Steel in Yekaterinburg, where hi-tech transformer (grain-oriented) steel is produced.
This project will provide a three-fold reduction in the ...
2016-08-04 14:12:03 OEMK will increase high-quality rolled steel production
Metalloinvest has started construction of a reduction and calibration section for Rolling Mill 350’s mid-size production line at Rolling Unit #2 at OEMK (part of the Company).
The new reduction and calibration section will ensure that every steel bar is the correct size. ...
2016-08-04 06:00:58 НГЗ планирует увеличить производство глинозема до 1,7 млн т
Во 1-м полугодии 2016 г. Николаевский глиноземный завод (НГЗ, входит в состав Русала) произвел 740 тыс. т глинозема, что на 3,6% больше по сравнению с аналогичным периодом прошлого года. Продолжается реализация проекта по расширению мощностей предприятия до 1,7 млн т глинозема в год. ...
2016-08-02 12:29:57 Acron Group launched rare earthes production
As part of its long-term investment programme, Acron Group implements a project of complex apatite-nepheline rock processing at Veliky Novgorod production site to produce rare earth elements (REE) cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, concentrates of light, medium and heavy rare earth elements from ...