Metallurgy news

• Ukrainian construction market has reached the bottom, we expect growth - expert On December 3, during the IV National Conference of Steel Construction Market Participants, industry experts were looking for answers to the questions - where to play and how to win in a crisis period. The largest event in the steel construction industry this year brought together a record... 04.12.2015  15:42

• Zaporizhstal shipped two million tons of steel through the river port of Zaporozhye From the end of 2012 to 2015, PJSC Zaporizhstal of Metinvest Group shipped about 2 million tons of steel through the Zaporozhye river port. In 2015, the company exports about 700 thousand tons of metallurgical products by ships of the Ukrrichflot JSIC, the press service of Zaporizhstal... 04.12.2015  09:38

• PJSC "ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih" admitted that layoffs cannot be avoided PJSC "ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih" is forced to make difficult decisions that are inevitable to maintain production and ensure the operation of the enterprise. This was announced on Thursday in the press service of the enterprise. The company will not be able to avoid partial redundancies in order... 03.12.2015  17:28

• Ukraine may introduce anti-dumping duties on galvanized and other rolled steel coated from the PRC The initiator of the anti-dumping investigation against the Chinese rolled metal products is the network of service metal centers of the Dutch group Metinvest B.V. Metinvest-SMC. Dmitry Lippa, General Director of Metinvest-SMC, announced his desire to see protective duties on coated flat products... 03.12.2015  12:58

• Janet Yellen drops gold prices to 6-year lows After comments by the head of the US Federal Reserve System Janet Yellen about a possible hike in the refinancing rate this month, gold prices collapsed to the lows of 2009-2010. Spot gold prices fell nearly $ 10 to $ 1,045.85 an ounce, their lowest since February 2010. US gold futures fell... 03.12.2015  12:40

• Azovstal started to produce SVP-profile from 20G2AF steel In November, Metinvest Group will supply DTEK Pavlogradugol (Dnipropetrovsk region) with about 150 tons of special profile No. 19 of the new 20G2AF steel grade. These products are manufactured at the Azovstal plant and are used to strengthen mines. Especially for these products, Azovstal has... 02.12.2015  22:04

• Chelyabinsk scientists have come up with a new method of steel production Young scientists of the South Ural State University (SUSU) won the competition for participants in the youth scientific and innovative competition "U.M.N.I.K." As told in the State TV and Radio Company "South Ural", the guys distinguished themselves in the direction of "Modern materials and... 02.12.2015  12:49

• The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine warned about the consequences of the power blockade of Crimea After discussing the information provided by the specialists and the leadership of the Kherson region, the specialists of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry conducted an analysis of the risks of long-term use of the reserve power supply circuit of the region (in the absence of power supply on... 02.12.2015  12:26

• Production volumes fell on Zaporizhstal In January - November 2015, steel production at Zaporizhstal PJSC of Rinat Akhmetov's Metinvest group decreased by 3.4 percent compared to the same period last year, to 3.63 million tons. Production of finished rolled products decreased in the reporting period by 2.1 percent - to 3.05 million tons.... 01.12.2015  19:01

• Blackout of Zaporizhstal lasted for several hours: the light is turned on after the repayment of part of the debt JSC Zaporozhyeoblenergo fully resumed electricity supplies to the Zaporizhstal Metallurgical Plant of Metinvest Group immediately after it received 70 out of 140 million hryvnia of electricity debt from the company. This was reported by the press service of the metallurgical plant, UNIAN... 01.12.2015  18:53