According to the data, issued by the Cabinet of Ministers, in the first five months of the current year, Ukraine registered a 7.7% decrease in its finished steel product output to 12.016 million tons, a 4.4% decrease in its crude steel output to 14.044 million tons and a 1% rise in its pig iron production to 12.093 million tons.
The country’s production of metallurgical coke in the given period went down by 0.3% YoY to 8.176 million tons. In the January-May period Ukraine produced 27.765 million tons of iron ore concentrate and 9.423 million tons of iron ore pellets, up by 3% and 4% YoY.
In May Ukraine produced 2.356 million tons of finished steel products, down by 7.5%, 2.919 million tons of crude steel, down by 1% MoM, 2.489 million tons of pig iron, up by 0.4% MoM, and 1.7 million tons of metallurgical coke, up by 1.8% MoM. (SteelOrbis)