Steelmaking production in Ukraine in 2013 will grow by 3% compared to the expected performance of this year up to 33.7 million tons.Director of the Ukrpromvneshekspertiza Centre Mr. Volodymyr Vlasyuk said in 2012 domestic steel plants made 32.7 million tons of steel. He said that the following year steelmakers would be favored by the fall…
Ukrpromvneshekspertyza director Volodymyr Vlasiuk said that EU countries’ share of exports of Ukrainian metal products was 28%, while the share of the CIS states was 16%, 70% of this going to the Russian market.Mr. Vlasiuk said: “The EU sales market is more important to us then the Russian market, there is a need to diversify…
Metinvest, Ukraine’s biggest steelmaker, will remove from operation a sinter facility at its Azovstal plant.The plant will shift its sinter production to Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works.The cost of restoring sinter production at Ilyich will top $300 million. (SteelGuru)