According to the Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in January domestic steel products consumption in Ukraine was down by 11.3% on December 2009 but up by 31% on January 2009.
Import share in January 2010 amounted 20.5% which is 4 times as much as in January 2009 and up by 7% on 2009.
The consumption of all kinds of steel products grew as compared with January 2009, except rebar supplies of which decreased by 59.2%. Besides, angle supplies grew more than 3 times, beam supplies increased almost 2.5 times. At the same time HR flat steel, coil, and beam supplies grew in January 2010 as compared with December 2009. Rebar supplies fell 3 times.
According to the UGMK report, the main consumers of rolled steel in January 2010 were tube and pipe plants with the purchase volumes of 28.2%. Metal trading is the second top consumer. Machine-building industry is the third top consumer. (Ugmk.info)