At present the equipment delivered to the sintering plant is being unloaded. Preparation for capital repair of sintering machine No. 4 is at full speed. 75% of the 400 tons of metal structures and large sized units has been manufactured. The foundry, mechanical and metal structure shops are finishing the fulfillment of the orders and…
It is reported that the Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine granted non-expiry licenses for ferrous and non-ferrous metal scrap collecting and recycling to 47 companies as stated in the act of Ministry of Industrial Policy dated January 19th 2010.In particular, licenses are granted to Zaporozhvtormet, Poltavavtormet, Vtortsvetmet, Dnepropetrovskvtormet, Sumyvtormet, Vinnitsavtormet, Nikolaevvtormet, Kievvtormet, Volynvtormet, Ukrvtormet.In…
It is reported that ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel producer, plans to invest $200 million to modernize and boost efficiency at its Ukrainian steel mill in 2010.Mr. Jean Jouet, CEO for ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, said these plans could be derailed if the company continued to struggle in receiving value added tax refunds from Ukraine cash-strapped…
According to the information issued by the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy, up to March 1st 2010, Ukraine utilized 12.48% of its annual quota for rebar exports to Russia and 48.87% of its yearly quota for cold-rolled steel exports to the same destination, supplying a total of 49,901 tons and 102,620 tons respectively. In the last…
It is reported that in January to February the pipe producing subsidiaries of the Interpipe Corporation increased their steel pipe output by 2.1 times to 112,700 tons.Specifically, during the first two months of 2010, Interpipe NTRP registered a 46.3% increase in its pipe production to 48,700 tons, Interpipe NMPP saw its pipe output increase 2.5…
It is reported that Azovstal, an integrated iron & steel works which is a part of Metinvest holding, has increased production of rolled steel products in January to February by 87.6% YoY to 859,000 tons, crude steel by 83.5% to 923,000 tons, pig iron by 80.6% to 784,000 tons, coke by 11.4% to 322,000 tons.February…
It is reported that in February in comparison with January Ukraine has reduced production of pig iron by 10.9% to 2.084 million tons.In general during January to February 2010 compared to the same of 2009 production of pig iron at Ukrainian mills increased by 15.2% to 4.42 million tons.In January 2010 as compared to December…
In January Ukraine exports of ferroalloys registered an increase of 10.3% to 97,390 tons compared to December 2009. Meanwhile, compared to January 2009, the country ferroalloy exports went up 5.9 times. Specifically, Ukraine ferrosilicomanganese exports increased by 2.9% to 62,000 tons, its ferromanganese exports went up two times to 14,300 tons while its ferrosilicon exports…