Metallurgy news

• Donetsk Research Institute of Metals will open a collection point for non-ferrous metal scrap The plans of the Donetsk State Research and Design Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals (DonNIPITsM) are to open an acceptance point for non-ferrous scrap with its subsequent processing into finished products. The director of the institute Fyodor Baryakhtar informed the Donetsk news agency (DAN)... 05.11.2015  17:36

• MEPS: US steel sellers offer "huge" discounts, the market is unstable In an attempt to sell anything, American steel sellers are offering their customers huge discounts, challenging claims that US steel prices have bottomed out. There is so much free capacity in the American metallurgical industry today that any, the most complex order, is completed in less than... 05.11.2015  15:01

• The general director of Zaporizhstal accused Kiev of repression of the enterprise for "displayed civic stance" Rostislav Shurma, General Director of Zaporizhstal PJSC Metinvest Group, Rinata Akhmetova, said that the non-refund of VAT is a reaction of state authorities to the civil position of the plant's labor collective during local elections and a way of pressure on the plant and its staff. This was... 05.11.2015  14:46

• Ukraine in January-October increased the export of scrap metal by 41 percent According to the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, the physical volumes of export of scrap metal increased in ten months of 2015, increased compared to the same period last year by 41.1 percent - up to 1 million 124 thousand 988 tons. In monetary terms, the export of scrap metal in the reporting... 04.11.2015  19:55

• The head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration proposed to nationalize coal mines and processing factories Donetsk Regional State Administration sets itself the ambitious task of returning coal fields and central processing plants to the disposal of mines and state property, as well as their entry into the structure of a single coal company. The head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Pavel... 04.11.2015  18:48

• DTEK protests against the arrest by the Kiev Pechersk Court of its accounts and charges of financing terrorism The Pechersk District Court of Kiev unreasonably seized the accounts of DTEK Kurakhovskaya CEP and blocked the financial activities of the enterprise, the press service of Rinat Akhmetov's company said. “At the entrance of the investigative actions, the facts of offenses by the CEP of K... 04.11.2015  15:33

• Canada increased supplies of coking coal to Ukraine by 123 percent In the first 6 months of 2015, imports of Canadian coking coal amounted to USD 30.5 million, showing an increase of 123 percent compared to the same period in 2014. This was reported by the state-owned company Derzhzovnishinform. The main recipients of coking coal from Canada in the period under... 04.11.2015  15:11

• AK Steel Welcomes US Department of Commerce Decision on Corrosion Resistant Steel AK Steel, a leading US stainless steel producer, welcomes the US Department of Commerce's decision to impose preliminary anti-dumping duties on stainless steel imports from China, India, Italy and South Korea. In particular, a duty of 235.66 percent was introduced against Chinese steel,... 04.11.2015  12:14

• Ukraine will invest 20 billion hryvnia in the modernization of railways. tracks and rolling stock Investments of PJSC "Ukrainian Zaliznytsia" in 2016 in the renovation of tracks, locomotives and cars will amount to 20 billion hryvnia, according to the press service of the department on Tuesday. According to the Minister of Infrastructure Andriy Pivovarsky, the reform of the railway industry,... 03.11.2015  17:53

• For 10 months of 2015 MMK im. Ilyich reduced steel production by 27 percent The Mariupol Metallurgical Plant named after Ilyich (Ilyich Steel Plant) of Rinat Akhmetov's Metinvest Group for ten months of 2015 reduced steel production compared to the same period last year (APPG) by 26.9 percent - to 2 million 304 thousand tons. The company informed the Interfax agency about... 03.11.2015  13:30