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Russian ferrous metallurgy news
| 20 Jun 2025 | 11:03

Cold June, Not hot July. Russian sheet steel and welded pipe market: June 9-18

Cold June, Not hot July. Russian sheet steel and welded pipe market: June 9-18 Low demand was a problem, now it is becoming a curse for the Russian sheet steel market. Consumer activity has completely died down. In turn, distributors are reducing purchases of steel products from plants. Metallurgical plants, of course, are reducing output and/or exporting more rolled products, but the volumes of warehouse stocks at trading houses and independent metal traders, at a minimum, are not decreasing. Some metallurgical companies have not abandoned the idea of raising factory prices...
Russian non-ferrous metallurgy news
| 20 Jun 2025 | 10:30

Nornickel develops palladium-based materials twice quicker than foreign companies do

Nornickel develops palladium-based materials twice quicker than foreign companies do The Norilsk Nickel Palladium Technology Center managed to cut time for laboratory development and tests of palladium-based materials technologies to 9 months, which is 2 times faster than foreign companies do, the center's Director Dmitry Izotov told TASS on sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. "We have managed to reach the development and laboratory testing term of 9 months, against 18-24 months foreign companies have. We use a hybrid approach: on the one hand, for every...