According to preliminary data, issued by the Ukrainian Association of Ore-dressing Enterprises, in the first nine months of the current year Ukrainian steelmakers imported 1.834 million tons of iron ore, down by 40.7% YoY, while Ukrainian mining companies’ iron ore exports rose by 24.2% YoY to 24.721 million tons.In particular, in January to September this…
According to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in September Ukraine’s average daily pig iron output continued its positive trend which started in August registering an increase of 6.55% MoM or 4,600 tons, to 74,800 tons.In the first 11 days of October the country’s average daily pig iron output increased further to 78,100 tons.According…
It is reported that in September the Ukrainian steel industry increased its natural gas consumption by 20 million cubic meters month on month to 404 million cubic meters, with the average daily consumption of natural gas during the month totaling 13.5 million cubic meters was up from 12.4 million cubic meters in September 2009.According to…
It is reported that In January to September Ukraine increased its exports of steel pipes to Russia by 55% YoY to 413,900 tons including 204,900 tons of seamless pipes, up by 41% YoY, 116,800 tons of welded large diameter pipes, up by 13.6 times, and 92,200 tons of welded medium and small diameter pipes, down…
Mr. Alexander Kirichko, general director of the Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe, has presented the company’s new electric steel smelting complex, Interpipe Steel.The Interpipe Steel project was presented during a meeting of the Regional Committee on Economic Reforms that was held in Dnepropetrovsk on 12 October. Interpipe Steel remains the largest investment…
Ukrainian flat steel producer Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has said that, following its September output decrease mainly caused by the accident at its power plant, in October this year it plans to produce 414,000 tons of pig iron, up by 12.5% MoM, and 500,000 tons of crude steel, up by 9% MoM.In addition,…
In September Ukrainian crude steel output continued to show improvement, with domestic steelmakers producing 2.742 million tons, up by 5.5% compared to August and with the average daily output increasing by 9% MoM to 91,340 tons. September improvement was mainly driven by the ISD subsidiary Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD),…
According to preliminary data, in the first nine months of 2010 the pipe producing subsidiaries of Ukraine’s Interpipe Corporation increased their steel pipe output by 62% YoY to 627,100 tons as compared to the same period of last year.Specifically, in January to September Interpipe NTRP registered a 49.7% increase in its steel pipe production to…