In January-February Zaporizhstal produced 640.8 thousand tons of steel, up by 2.1% YoY.
Pig iron output reached 605.7 thousand tons, while that of rolled metal – 563.7 thousand tons, up by 14.4% and 1.4% YoY respectively.
“The current market situation in Ukraine has resulted in a considerable domestic demand fall, while world metal prices continue to fall. To stay alive and to pay salary to its employees the company needed to retain its output levels”, Rostislav Shurma, Zaporizhstal CEO, said.
In February the company produced 279 thousand tons of pig iron, 294.8 thousand tons of steel and 264.8 thousand tons of rolled metal. (Ukrainian metal)
