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 production to 7.120 million tons.
The country production of metallurgical coke in the given period went down by 1.5% YoY to 4.811 million tons. In January to March Ukraine produced 16.451 million tons of iron ore concentrate and 5.596 million tons of iron ore pellets, up by 2.9% YoY and 5.8% YoY.
In March alone Ukraine produced 2.475 million tons of finished steel products, up by 15.3%, 2.906 million tons of crude steel, up by 17.9%, 2.473 million tons of pig iron, up by 13.7% and 1.655 million tons of metallurgical coke, up by 10.9% all on MoM basis. (SteelOrbis)