Coke and coal supplies to metal and chemical companies are still unstable. In January-March Ukrainian by-product coke plants decreased 6% moisture coke output by 42.6%, to 2.44 million tons, YoY.
In March coke output rose to 811 thousand tons, against 735 thousand tons a month earlier.
In the beginning of April Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works put two coke-oven batteries into operation, but all the coke produced (still in small batches) is supplied to the Dniepropetrovsk Iron and Steel Works named after Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), which is also a part of the Industrial Union of Donbass.
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, Zaporizhstal and DMKD mostly import coke from Poland, Kazakhstan and Russia.
In March average daily coke output was on the February level (22.6 thousand tons). (Ukrainian metal)
