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Nornickel announces consolidated production results for 1Q 2025
Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and a major producer of Class I nickel, platinum and copper, announces preliminary consolidated production results for the first quarter of 2025. Senior Vice-President — Operating Director, Alexander Popov commented on the production results, "In 1Q 2025, platinum production increased, whereas the output of other metals was slightly lower than a year ago. The modest decline of nickel production was temporary and due to scheduled short-term ...
22 April 2025., 11:17   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

The active construction phase of the Baimsky GOK started
The active construction phase of the Baimsky Mining and Processing Plant (Baimsky GOK) was launched in the Chukotka Autonomous District. This is Russia's first mining and processing plant using unmanned technologies and the Internet of Things in copper ore mining. Dmitry Grigorenko, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Government Staff, and Yury Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, familiarized themselves with the construction ...
22 April 2025., 10:40   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

Rusal's top manager: Almost every aluminum bridge in Russia is unique
Over the past few years, about thirty bridges made of aluminum, a material that until recently was considered exotic in infrastructure projects, have appeared in Russia. The new bridge assembled in St. Petersburg for the Altai region was an impressive technological experiment. Why aluminum may become an important structural material of the near future, how Russian bridges were in demand in Germany and what does the Ministry of Emergency Situations have to do with it - in an interview with “Lenta.ru” ...
18 April 2025., 10:15   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

Russia accounts for 8.8% of the world's copper reserves
Such data is contained in the State Report on the state and utilization of mineral resources of the Russian Federation, published on the website of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia. Copper belongs to the first group of minerals, the reserves of which, under any scenario of the national economy development, meet its necessary needs until 2035. Russia has a large raw material base of copper and ranks 7th among the largest producers. The basis of the country's raw material base is formed ...
17 April 2025., 10:15   comment

Rhenium extraction from Kuril volcano gas may start in 24 months
Pilot-scale extraction of rhenium and other rare metals for subsequent refinement and separation from concentrate may begin in Russia within two years at the world’s only commercial rhenium deposit — the Kudryavy Volcano on Iturup Island (Kuril Islands), one of investors in the Russian Rhenium project Maxim Korobov said. "The project is currently in the research and development phase, which has intensified since 2015. We hold several patents based on the selected technologies and our findings, ...
17 April 2025., 10:08   comment

April issue of “Metal Supply and Sales” Magazine has been released
The pages contain analytical materials on various sectors of metallurgical business, interviews and market reviews. For example, the latest issue contains a detailed report on the conference on coated steels, electrometallurgy, a review dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Rusal, interviews with the Managing Director of Ural Steel on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the enterprise, with the Managing Director of Volzhsky Pipe Plant, General Director of MMK-Informservice and other market ...
17 April 2025., 10:00   comment

It’s better to run badly than to sit well. Russian and global sheet products market: April 2–16
Russian metallurgical plants raised factory prices for hot-rolled sheet and coil in April, with plans to increase prices across the entire sheet products sector by 2,000–4,000 rubles per ton in May. Their key strength lies in limited supply volumes. In the second quarter, scheduled maintenance is planned at all major enterprises, including Kazakhstan’s Qarmet. Additionally, domestic producers are banking on export shipments. In turn, metal trading companies and pipe mills are also forced to ...
16 April 2025., 14:30   comment

Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade assesses work of St. Petersburg metallurgical enterprises
A delegation from Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, led by Ivan Markov, Director of the Metallurgy and Materials Department, visited the production facilities of the Petrostal Metallurgical Plant and the Laboratory of Special Steels and Alloys in St. Petersburg. Participants reviewed: - Current capabilities of the enterprises; - Results of technical modernization efforts; - Key areas of innovative development. Over the past year, over 193 million RUB was allocated for modernization at ...
16 April 2025., 12:48   comment

Major changes are expected in the stainless steel market over the next two years (photo report)
On April 10–11, the 11th international conference "Stainless Steel and the Russian Market " took place in St. Petersburg. The event was organized by the "Metal Supply & Sales" Magazine and brought together over 140 participants. Parallel to the conference, a meeting of the Coordination Council of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade on metallurgy was held, focusing on the development of stainless steel production in Russia. The session gathered around 50 attendees, including executives ...
16 April 2025., 11:37   comment

Russia will expand exports to Indonesia
First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov announced the potential for increasing Russian exports to Indonesia, particularly in metallurgy and the forestry sector. This statement was made during an expanded meeting of the Russian-Indonesian intergovernmental commission. He emphasized the importance of diversifying the structure of export supplies from Russia to Indonesia, noting positive trends in this direction. Manturov highlighted promising opportunities for expanding exports of metallurgical ...
16 April 2025., 10:16   comment

Ministry for the Development of Russian Far East: Russia can offset up to 7% of global lithium deficit
According to forecasts, the global market could face a lithium shortage of approximately 1.3 million tons and a rare-earth metals deficit of 66,000 tons by 2040. Lithium is critical for manufacturing batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy systems. In a report by Alexey Chekunkov, head of the Ministry for the Development of Russian Far East, Russia’s domestic production development could offset up to 7% of the global lithium deficit (around 91,000 tons). Additionally, the country ...
15 April 2025., 14:30   comment

Lithium and tantalum production plant design launched in Murmansk Region
JSC "Arkmineral – Resource" in the Murmansk Region is developing the Afrikanda rare-earth metals deposit, has begun designing a processing plant. Construction of the complex, capable of processing approximately one million tons of ore annually, is set to begin in 2026–2027, according to a TASS report citing the company’s General Director Andrey Trenin. He emphasized that key technical solutions for the plant are already finalized. This year, the company plans to register the reserves on the ...
15 April 2025., 12:54   comment