At MMC "Norilsk Nickel" will be another staff unit Top Management level: the management of the company decided to introduce an additional position - Deputy General Director for Strategic Development. Prestigious chair takes Maxim Vladimirovich Naumchenko - an experienced manager, who previously worked as a team with the current first deputy head of the nickel corporation - Yevgeny Yakovlev.

Management steelmaker AK Steel Holding (West Chester, Ohio, USA) has decided to revise the cost of its own production of stainless steel products for February contracts.

In the town of Nikopol (Dnipropetrovsk region) at the production facilities of the company "VSMPO TITAN UKRAINE" will soon begin production of a new product for the company - welded titanium tubes.

Mining and Metallurgical Company (MMC), "Norilsk Nickel" hit the hundred most promising enterprises of the global market in a special ranking «Global Challengers» by consultancy «Boston Consulting Group» Office (BCG). Besides nickel corporation in developing the list of leaders of the global business space got 5 more companies from Russia. This "Gazprom" "Rusal", "Lukoil", "VimpelCom" and "Severstal".

Management of the company Aperam (former division of special steels ArcelorMittal) has decided to raise the price of products in stainless steel for February contracts. According to preliminary announcements of new price lists the base price of corrosion-resistant metal grades from this European manufacturer from the beginning of next month will increase by an average of 50 euros per tonne.

Leaders of the Russian company "VSMPO-Avisma" plans this year to set a new record in terms of production of titanium sponge (an intermediate product of the process of producing metallic titanium). The minimum figure, which focuses Verkhnesaldinskoye company management - 43 thousand tons of finished product.

Experts Mining and Metallurgical Company "Kola" (Russia, Murmansk region) completed the modernization of automated process technology for refining raw material management system in the department hydrometallurgical shop electrolysis nickel (Ceng).

MEPS Analytical Office Specialists (UK) believe that the experts stainless steel global market there is good reason to expect a rise of the cost of production of corrosion-resistant alloys at the beginning of this year.

United States Department of Commerce (United States Department of Commerce) approved the abolition of import duties on titanium with resource supply for the needs of the metallurgical plant of Firth Rixson.

Activists of the movement, is opposed to the development of nickel mine in the Voronezh region, turned for help to the United Nations.

Limited Liability Company "Elemash-SPETSTRUBPROKAT" (Russia, Moscow region, Elektrostal) change in ownership.

Corporation «Precision Castparts» ( «PCC») completed the acquisition of the product producer of titanium and its alloys - the company «Titanium Metals Corp» ( «Timet»), formerly owned «ELIT Acquisition Sub Corp».

In Russia, it issued a law under which the right of mining resources in the fields of federal significance will no longer be distributed through competitions.

The Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO) decided to leave the rental cost of stainless steel for January contract at the level of the last months of 2012 prices of the year. This is with reference to official sources in metallurgical corporation reported on the pages of his news portal is one of the leading traders in the sector of special steels Taiwan - Yieh Corp.