In January 2014 Ukrainian metal companies plan to produce 2.32 million tons of rolled metal, up by 3.98% as compared to November 2013. Pig iron output is expected to increased by 7%, to 2.5 million tons, steel output – by 5.8%, to 2.7 million tons. To meet these figures metal companies will need 610 thousand…
In 2013 local rolled metal consumption in Ukraine would decrease by 6%, to 7.8 million tons YoY, according to Vladimir Vlasyuk, CEO of the state enterprise “Ukrpromvneshexpertiza” (UPE). He says, decrease in demand is connected to the increase in output fall in the main steel-consuming sectors – construction (by 16%) and machine-building (by 13%). UPE…
In January-November Ukrainian ferroalloy companies decreased output by 18.9%, to 784.3 thousand tons, YoY. In particular, silicomanganese output decreased by 17.1%, to 568.7 thousand tons, ferromanganese production fell by 51.2%, to 73.3 thousand tons, metallic manganese output decreased by 50.4%, to 7.2 thousand tons, while ferrosilicon output increased by 15.6%, to 135.1 thousand tons. The…
