Metallurgy

Kobe Steel, Ltd.’s Machinery Business has opened a 40 MW test facility for large-capacity nonstandard compressors at its Takasago Works in western Japan. Construction of the 8-billion-yen facility began in February 2015

GE and South32 today announced the signing of a three-year  strategic partnership to assist in then development of South32’s technology roadmap ad activation of the Company’s digital transformation.

NORNICKEL ANNOUNCES THE SALE OF BUSINESS CENTER, LEGION TI, FOR APPROXIMATELY USD 100 MILLION

ChelPipe Group announces financial results as of year-end 2016 in accordance with IFRS

UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486, Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL, Moscow Exchange: RUAL/RUALR), a leading global aluminium producer, announces its results for the year ended 31 December 2016

TMK, one of the world’s leading producers of tubular products for the oil and gas industry, has shipped the first batch of drill pipe with TMK UP EXD second-gen double-shoulder premium tool joint connections. The pipe batch was shipped to Samotlorneftepromkhim.

Mechel PAO (MICEX: MTLR, NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, reports launching a new longwall at V.I. Lenina Underground Mine which is part of Southern Kuzbass Coal Company.

SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH announces large investment at Swiss Steel

Metinvest Group’s metallurgical enterprises generated approximately $45 million of extra profit from new products sale. These new products were launched within 2010-2016. At the same time, the share of new items launched in 2016 totaled over $6 million.

KAZ Minerals has produced its first saleable copper concentrate from sulphide ore at the Aktogay project

Igor Bardintsev has been appointed as Severstal’s Chief digital officer (CDO).

OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works ("MMK", or "the Company") (LSE: MMK) shipped 1,135,500 tonnes of galvanized steel to its consumers in 2016, the most in the Company’s history.

OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works ("MMK", or "the Company") (LSE: MMK) produced 5,948 thousand tonnes of metal at its hot-rolled products Mill 2000 in 2016 – the all-time record for annual output since the mill was commissioned.