Metinvest to set PCI system into operation at Azovstal Iron and Steel Works

Metinvest Holding LLC, a vertically integrated metals and mining company, has announced its plans to stop two coking batteries at the Azovstal steel plant after the start-up and adjustment of the pulverised coal injection system has been successfully completed. The batteries will be finally shut down at the end of October 2012. (Phoenix-capital.ua)

September 2012

UKRAINE&RUSSIA: STEEL-MAKING PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: FOUNDRY PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROUND BILLETS UKRAINE&RUSSIA: SQUARE BILLETS UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROLLED WIRE UKRAINE&RUSSIA: SLABS  UKRAINE&RUSSIA: REINFORCEMENT STEEL, CLASS A1, A3  UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROUNDS, SQUARES Month Russian market, $/t, $1/RUR32.1961* min max August 565.29 782.70 September 574.60 860.35 Month Ukrainian market, $/t without VAT, $1/UAH7.9898* min max August 694.89 857.34 September 689.88…

ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih ups roll output by 12% in 9 months of 2012

ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, Ukraine’s biggest steel producer, raised finished roll production by 11.7% YoY to 4.032 million tons in January to September.Crude steel production grew by 15.9% to 4.764 million tons and pig iron was up by 19.1% to 4.171 million tons. The plant produced 451,000 tons of roll, 552,000 tons of crude steel and…

Ukraine production results for January-September 2012

According to the data, issued by Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers, in the first 9 months of the current year Ukraine registered a 3.5% decrease in its finished steel product output to 20.411 million tons, a 5.6% decrease in its crude steel output to 24.592 million tons and a 0.75% decline in its pig iron production…