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Russia to increase niobium, tantalum, wolfram, beryllium production

"Russia will increase the production of deficient raw materials, including niobium, tantalum, wolfram, beryllium, within the national project titled New Materials and Chemistry, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin stated at the Znaniye (Knowledge) society marathon. "The government devoted a separate national project New Materials and Chemistry to handling this problem. The national project will focus on four areas: chemistry, biotechnologies, composites, and rare metals," he said, adding that "the ...

30 April 2025., 10:30 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

Russia has developed a technology to produce pure hafnium and zirconium

Employees of the Giredmet Institute (part of the Chemical Technology Cluster of Rosatom's Science Division) have developed an import-substituting technology for producing pure metals - zirconium and hafnium. The innovative method makes it possible to produce metal powders with a particle size that makes them a raw material for powder metallurgy and additive technologies. “Now, certain restrictions are imposed on the import of zirconium and hafnium to Russia,” explained Sergey Melnikov, scientific ...

29 April 2025., 10:50 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

Seligdar announces operating results for 1Q2025

Seligdar PJSC is one of Russia’s leading gold producers with over 50 years of experience in the mining sector. The Company’s primary mined metals include gold and tin. Seligdar has gold reserves of 285 tonnes and tin reserves of 412 thousand tonnes. The Holding Group's operations are located across seven Russian regions, including the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Republic of Buryatia, Altai, Orenburg, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk and Chukotka regions. Seligdar PJSC (MOEX: SELG, hereafter referred to ...

28 April 2025., 11:00 comment

Russian companies will engage in lithium mining in Argentina

About 70 projects in the field of natural resources extraction are being prepared for launch in Argentina. Most of the projects with Russian participation are at the initial stages, including the approval of work permits (in the field of ecology and social sphere), after which the companies will begin to assess the viability of the projects, explained in the Embassy of Argentina in the Russian Federation. Despite the fact that Russian companies are most interested in projects related to lithium ...

28 April 2025., 10:25 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

RUSAL develops aluminum scrap recycling

RUSAL, one of the world's largest primary aluminum producers, has produced a number of slabs intended for manufacturing of aluminum cans using more than 50% scrap. The Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Smelter project was implemented using metal produced using inert anode technology. Primary aluminum from the reduction shop was mixed with pre-treated and melted scrap and cast into slabs in the cast house. This is a non-standard process for a manufacturer of primary aluminum alloys, which requires an innovative ...

25 April 2025., 10:30 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

RUSAL noted the impact of aluminum structures on the construction industry

Innovative materials, including aluminum structures, are becoming a key factor in the development of Russia's construction industry. This was stated by Evgeny Vasiliev, Director of Market Development at RUSALl, at the XVII Infrastructure Summit “Strong Russia” (InfraSpace). He recalled that in recent years, domestic enterprises that are members of the Aluminum Association have expanded their product range and mastered new alloys. This has contributed to an increase in the use of aluminum in ...

24 April 2025., 11:07 comment

Russia has realized production of new types of titanium tubes for aviation applications

Chepetsk Mechanical Plant (ChMZ, an enterprise of Rosatom's Fuel Division in Glazov, Republic of Udmurtia) has realized production of seven new nomenclatures of titanium alloy pipes for aviation pipeline systems. Such pipes with diameters from 6.35 mm to 31.75 mm and wall thicknesses from 0.4 mm to 1.3 mm were previously purchased by the Russian aviation industry from European suppliers. By 2030, Chepetsk Mechanical Plant plans to produce about 100 kilometers of titanium pipes for hydraulic ...

24 April 2025., 10:40 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

Russian scientists discovered mineral to study Earth’s core

Scientists at St. Petersburg State University (SPGU) have discovered a new mineral – olgafrankite – in the rocks of Norilsk and the Rumuruti meteorite. For the scientific world, the discovery was a sensation, because this mineral was for decades considered a ‘cosmic calling card’. A new mineral, that consists of nickel and germanium, was discovered in the rocks of the Norilsk Ore region in the Krasnoyarsk Krai. For about 40 years, these samples were kept as museum exhibits, and now scientists ...

24 April 2025., 10:00 comment

Russia sharply increased copper exports to China in March

China's copper imports from the United States fell 1.9 times to $204.8 million in March this year, according to Chinese customs. This was the minimum for bilateral trade since April 2023 and is noticeably less than the average level of purchases for last year (371.9 million dollars, RIA Novosti reported. The main beneficiary of this decline was Russia, which in March became the second major source of copper for China. Russian exports for the year rose by $495.4 million, or 2.7 times, to $790.9 ...

23 April 2025., 11:40 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