In January-April Zaporizhstal increased pig iron output by 1.3%, steel output – by 1.1% and rolled metal – by 4.1% YoY. In April the works produced 273.4 thousand tons of pig iron, 323 thousand tons of steel and 276.5 thousand tons of rolled metal. In April Zaporizhstal demonstrated an increase in the manufacture of all…
In January-March major pipe companies of Ukraine produced 337.1 thousand tons of ferrous metals pipes, down by 15.4% YoY. In March pipe output was on the level of 135.7 thousand tons, up by 17.5% MoM. Khartsyzsk Pipe Works has dramatically decreased its pipe output from 47.5 thousand tons in the first quarter of 2013 to…
In March the major Ukrainian ferroalloys manufacturer – Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NZF) – produced 3.3 thousand tons of ferromanganese, down by 34%, or 1.7 thousand tons, MoM. At the same time NZF decreased its silicomanganese output by 0.8%, or 0.3 thousand tons, to 39.2 thousand tons. In January-March NZF produced 11.5 thousand tons of ferromanganese,…
In March companies decreased ferroalloys output by 3.1%, or 2.8 thousand tons, to 87.2 thousand tons MoM. According to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers, in January-March companies increased ferroalloys output by 42.2%, or by 77.2 thousand tons, to 260.2 thousand tons, YoY. In February Ukrainian companies increased ferroalloys output by 8.4%, or by 7…
In 2014 Donetskkoks plans to decrease coke output by 2.83%, to 356.8 thousand tons, YoY. The works intends to earn 615.74 million UAH (without VAT) selling its 6% moisture coke. Blast furnace coke sales are expected on the level of 314.9 thousand tons. Due to decrease in by-product chemistry products demand, the forecast sales decrease…
In March ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih produced 492.2 thousand tons of steel, down by 13.04% or 73.8 thousand tons YoY. Rolled metal output decreased by 9.72%, or 48.9 thousand tons, to 454.4 thousand tons, while pig iron manufacture fell by 11.67%, or 57.3 thousand tons, to 433.7 thousand tons, all YoY. The company explained this decrease…
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, a part of the Metinvest group of companies, has received a complex order from an India-based company. Azovstal is to produce 10 thousand tons of X70 strips with increased mechanical properties. The difficulty of the order lies in the non-standard size of the rolled metal. According to the buyer’s order,…
In January-March transit of ferrous metals in the Ukrainian railroads network increased by 15%, to 900 thousand tons, YoY. In the first quarter of 2013 ferrous metals transit decreased by 22% YoY, the 2013 to 2012 results showed a fall by 34%, to 2.27 million tons. This year increase is stipulated by the 1.9 times…