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Cooperation between participants of the metal markets of Central Asia, the South Caucasus and Russia strengthens (photo report)

On April 24-25, Tashkent hosted the 5th International Conference “ Iron & Steel Market of Central Asia and the Caucasus ”, organized by "Metal Supply & Sales" Magazine. General partner of the event was Novostal-M Holding. The conference was supported by Tashkent Metallurgical Plant and ENTER STEEL Company. The region, which became the center of attention of the conference participants, is now seriously changing, new metallurgical and metal processing facilities have appeared here, breakthrough ...

30 April 2025., 10:40 comment

Time of no change. Russian and world flat steel market: April 23-28

At the end of April there were no significant events on the global or Russian steel market. The situation was determined by the previous trends, which consisted of weak demand for flat products, low level of business activity and relatively stable prices. Russian steel mills, in particular, announced an increase in quotations for May, but in June they will probably have to give up the continuation of growth. Visible consumption of all categories of flat products is noticeably lagging behind ...

30 April 2025., 10:10 comment

Tashkent Welcomes the Opening of the 5th International Trade Fair "INNOPROM. Central Asia"

"On April 28, Uzbekistan hosted the opening of the anniversary edition of the International Trade Fair "INNOPROM. Central Asia". The event, having brought together representatives from 35 countries, including Russia, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Qazaqstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, China, Türkiye, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, is being held at Tashkent’s brand-new business venue — CAEx Uzbekistan," shares Anton Atrashkin, Program Director of "INNOPROM. Central Asia". Over the past five ...

29 April 2025., 11:54 comment

Rebar is in a good demand before the May holidays

The analytical service of “Metal Supply & Sales” Magazine continues publishing the "MSS-TM index" (Market Temperature). The value of this index is determined through expert surveys on a weekly basis. At the end of April, according to experts' reports, rebar became a highly demanded type of steel products. Most of them pointed to increased sales before the holiday break and decent consumer demand. The situation in the medium-sized profile pipe sector was also generally favorable, while hot-rolled ...

29 April 2025., 10:40 comment

The return of the cold weather. Russian and world market of long products: April 18-25

Before the pause in the first half of May, the Russian market of rolled products for construction purposes was in a “frozen” state. The demand for rebar in some regions was characterized as weak, and the level of spot prices in the end of the month was slightly lower there. In other places more active consumption allowed metal traders to stabilize quotations. However, even that weak growth, which was observed throughout most of April, came to naught. The Central Bank's decision to keep the key ...

29 April 2025., 10:10 comment

Novostal-M Holding visited India Steel 2025 exhibition and conference

A Russian government delegation headed by Mikhail Yurin and the management of Novostal-M Holding visited India Steel 2025 exhibition and conference. India Steel 2025 is the largest platform where representatives of the steel industry, technology suppliers and partners gather annually. India remains the only country in the world where steel demand is growing at 8-10% annually, while many other countries are facing contraction or stagnation. Ivan Demchenko, shareholder of Novostal-M Holding Company, ...

28 April 2025., 11:10 comment

Severstal plans to place bonds in China

Severstal, one of the world’s most efficient metals and mining companies, for the second year is working out the issue of placement of yuan bonds in the infrastructure of China. Irina Butenko, head of the mining and metallurgical company's treasury department, told about it at the Russian-Chinese investment and legal forum. “We definitely see this as one of the main sources of financing in the near future,” she said. “Severstal is considering bond placement in China as one of the possible channels ...

28 April 2025., 10:20 comment

On the implementation of the Russian Stainless Company project

Evgenia Zolotarskaya, Head of Marketing Department of Russian Stainless Company, in her speech at the conference “Iron & Steel Market of Central Asia and the Caucasus” in Tashkent, told about the progress of the project on construction of facilities for production of stainless flat rolled products (Volgograd region, Russia). The first stage of the project will be realised in the 4th quarter of 2025, when the first products will be produced in the cold rolling shop. In 2026, the hot rolling shop ...

25 April 2025., 10:35 comment

Novostal-M develops sales and presence in Central Asian countries

In 2024, Metallurgical Holding Novostal-M remained among the leaders of Russian exporters of steel products to Uzbekistan. Since the start of operations (June 2022), there have been more than 350 customers in Uzbekistan. The sales volume is 5,000 tons monthly. The Holding has 4 warehouses in Uzbekistan with a total storage capacity of up to 14,000 tons of steel products, said Georgy Kim, Director of the Middle Abroad Division of Novostal-M Metallurgical Holding Company, at the 5th International ...

25 April 2025., 10:15 comment

Steel market specialists gathered in Tashkent for an international conference

About 120 delegates have registered for the 5th International Conference “Iron & Steel Market of Central Asia and the Caucasus”, which has been opened today in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). A lot has changed since the first conference in 2018: new metallurgical and metal processing facilities were opened in this region, and many investment projects have been implemented. The region continues to develop actively, becoming a center of attraction for both Chinese and European investors. Speakers of the ...

24 April 2025., 10:10 comment

Russia has sharply increased its coking coal exports to India by nearly 1.7 times

In the past fiscal year - from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. - Russia increased coking coal supplies to India almost 1.7 times to 8.2 million tons. This is stated in the April review of the Indian analytical company Bigmint. In total, India bought 57 million tons of coking coal on foreign markets during these 12 months - 0.7% less than a year earlier. Thus, Russia provided 16% of all Indian imports in this nomenclature, according to Bigmint data. The largest supplier to the country was Australia ...

23 April 2025., 11:00 comment

Spring always comes. Russian long products market: April 14-21

The weather this spring is simply “wonderful”! Then early warmth, then cold, then summer heat! Now we expect cold weather again. Nevertheless, seasonal growth in the construction industry has occurred. Although in absolute values it looks more modest than in the previous two years, the intensification of consumer demand allows metal trading companies to raise prices, trying to bring them to the level of primary market quotations or slightly higher. Metallurgical companies, for their part, maintain ...

23 April 2025., 10:15 comment

Import substitution of metallurgical and machine-building equipment in Russia

Until 2022, Russia was heavily reliant on Europe for supplies of metallurgical and machine-building equipment. In 2021, Russian enterprises purchased approximately $1 billion worth of such equipment, including $700 million from EU suppliers. The main suppliers of metallurgical equipment were SMS Group (Germany), Danieli (Italy) and Primetals Technologies (headquartered in London). In 2022, a shift in trend was observed. In light of the recent trade restrictions, European firms have almost completely ...

22 April 2025., 11:10 comment

Market environment is relatively stable

The analytical service of “Metal Supply & Sales” Magazine continues publishing the MSS-TM index (Market Temperature). The value of this index is determined through expert surveys on a weekly basis. In the middle of April the situation on the Russian market of steel products was relatively stable. The previous processes continued on it, no significant rate changes were observed. Estimates of sales and demand in the last week were contradictory, but the extremes compensated each other's influence. ...

22 April 2025., 10:34 comment

Russian Steel Association forecasts 2.5% growth in steel exports as demand in Russia falls

The Russian Steel Association expects steel exports to increase by 2.5% in 2025, the association's president Alexey Sentyurin said at the "Scrap of Ferrous and Nonferrous Metals" Forum. “In 2021 we shipped maximum volumes for export of 31 million tons, they had to be reduced last year to 20 million tons - that's a minus of almost 35%. This year, given the months that have already passed, we hope that exports will maintain the increase in rates, so for the year, we think we will be able to increase ...

21 April 2025., 11:30 comment

Russian Railways (RZD): iron ore loading for export grew by 13.3% in the first quarter

“Iron ore loading for export via the Russian Railways network increased by 13.3%. A total of 3.7 million tons of iron ore was loaded for export in the first quarter of 2025,” the press service of RZD reported. Including 2.1 million tons shipped in the eastern direction (+20.5%), 706.8 thousand tons shipped in the western direction (+9.6%), and 907 thousand tons shipped in the southern direction (+2.1%), the report said. The leading regions by volume of loading for export: - Belgorod region (1.1 ...

21 April 2025., 10:56 comment

Electrometallurgy accounts for more than 30% of total steel production in Russia

The 20th International Forum “Scrap of Ferrous and Nonferrous Metals” was held in Moscow. Nikita Ryblenkov, Executive Secretary of Association of Electrometallurgical Enterprises, spoke at the strategic plenary session. He presented an analysis of the current state and prospects of development of the electrometallurgical industry in Russia. Electrometallurgy accounts for more than 30% of the total volume of steel production in Russia. Smelting remains stable, and new production facilities are ...

21 April 2025., 10:30 comment

The Russian Federation will increase the capacity of border infrastructure

The Russian Federation is implementing projects aimed at improving international logistics and increasing cargo flows. A number of them are related to the modernization of border checkpoints and increasing the capacity of the network. “Within the framework of the national project “Efficient Transportation System” checkpoints are being updated on a large scale. By 2030, we will build and reconstruct 27 facilities on key international trade routes. As a result, 2 times more cargo will be able ...

18 April 2025., 10:45 comment

The organizing committee of the June complex of exhibitions “synchronized the clock”

On April 15, a meeting of the Organizing Committee of the exhibition of manufacturers of metal structures, products and their consumers SteelStructures’2025 and a complex of specialized exhibitions Metallurgy.Russia’2025, Litmash.Russia‘2025, Tubes.Russia’2025 was held. Heads of industry associations, unions and research centers of metallurgy, construction industry and mechanical engineering discussed the current situation in the metals market, the progress of preparations for the exhibitions ...

17 April 2025., 11:00 comment

Participants of the conference in Tashkent will visit two leading enterprises in their industries

On 25 April, as part of the 5th International Conference “ Iron & Steel Market of Central Asia and the Caucasus ”, participants will have the opportunity to visit two major plants in Uzbekistan. One of them is Enter Steel, Central Asia's largest group of engineering and steel construction plants, which produces a wide range of steel structures for infrastructure construction, apparatus and reactors of capacitive type for the oil and gas and chemical industries, a large hot-dip galvanising shop ...

17 April 2025., 10:30 comment