The CRONIMET Group announces today that the maintenance work at the Armenian Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine AG (ZCMC), originally planned for early 2009, will be performed early due to the current market situation. It is expected that the maintenance work will last four weeks. During this period, production will be reduced to the technological minimum.
Production will be adapted to demand as soon as the market situation has stabilized again. Company Profile CRONIMET Group
The CRONIMET Group, based in Karlsruhe, is an internationally successful positioned group of companies in the trading, production and recycling of alloying raw materials for the stainless steel industry.
The company, founded in 1980, is now present at 50 locations worldwide with over 4,000 employees. As a family business, CRONIMET has grown organically in this key supply industry. The systematic development of future markets is based on the combination of traditional entrepreneurship with modern management.
In the course of the past year the CRONIMET Group achieved an annual tonnage of 1.056 million tons representing an annual turnover of 3.2 billion Euro (4.7 billion USD).