In January-June Ceramet, a leading scrap procuring company in Ukraine, increased its deliveries of scrap to Poland and Hungary 2.4 times YoY, to 241.08 thousand tons.
During the period in question Polish and Hungarian market share in the total volume of exports increased from 59.5% to 22.5%. At the same time the scrap procurement of Ceramet decreased by 7.7% YoY, to 405.26 thousand tons.
In 2014 the company exported 288 thousand tons of ferrous scrap to Poland and Hungary.
“That was around 35% of the total exports last year”, said the company in its statement. (Ukrainian metal)