According to the data issued by Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers, in the first three months of the current year Ukraine registered a 0.3% decrease YoY in its finished steel product output to 7.103 million tons, a 5.5% decrease in its crude steel output to 8.190 million tons and a 0.1% decline in its pig iron…
Interpipe, one of the leading steel pipe producers in Eastern and Central Europe, plans to close Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsk Pipe open-hearth furnace capacities in Q4 2012 while its output will be fully indemnified with Dneprostal electric furnace steel production.Project capacity for Dneprostal in 2012 is estimated at 700,000 tons of assembled steel, while Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsk Pipe…
According to information from Ukraine Ministry of Economy, importers of steel pipes to Ukraine used 83.75% of their annual quota for imports of steel seamless casing and tubing with diameters up to 406.4 mm.For the period from October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012, the quota in question is 16,753 tons. Of this figure, the…