Taltek Group sells Northern Kuzbass Managing Company – Kommersant

The Taltek group of companies is selling JSC Northern Kuzbass Coal Company, a source in the government of the Kemerovo region told Kommersant, specifying that the documents on the deal have not yet been received by the authorities of the region, but it is known that the buyer is Kemerovo businessman Mikhail Lupiy.

Mr. Lupiy is a co-owner of several enterprises, including two gold mines in the Khabarovsk Territory and Kuzbass. Since 2010, he has been working as the director of Anchor Fastening Technology LLC (TAK, engaged in the production and supply of mine fasteners), in which he also has a 49% stake.

The structure of the coal company (MC) “Northern Kuzbass” includes two mines (“Pervomayskaya” and “Berezovskaya”), coal preparation plant “Severnaya”, loading and transport department, motor depot. All enterprises are located in the city of Berezovsky, about 30 km from Kemerovo, in the northern part of Kuzbass.

Northern Kuzbass entered the Taltek group in March 2019. Its purchase was made in order to “increase the total volume of production” and diversify sales markets due to the “deficient coking grade K coal”, which is mined by the mines of Northern Kuzbass. The group has four enterprises that produce thermal coal in the central part of Kuzbass.

As an employee of a coal company operating in the Berezovsky district told Kommersant, after the New Year it became known that the Northern Kuzbass Management Company was put up for sale. According to him, the company is a difficult asset due to the complex mining geology, which is why it has a high cost price, and therefore the main value of the company is the concentrator.

Igor Lavrenkov, Kemerovo