In January-November major Ukrainian companies produced 777 thousand tons of ferrous pipes, down by 40.3% YoY.
In November pipe output totaled 69.7 thousand tons, up from October level of 62.7 thousand tons.
Khartsyzsk Pipe Works, situated in the ATO zone, produced 67 thousand tons of pipes, down by 67% YoY. In July-September as well as November the works stood idle, with 0.7 thousand tons produced in October.
Interpipe-NTZ pipe output decreased by 47% YoY, to 149 thousand tons (16 thousand tons in November), with Interpipe NMTZ producing 89.9 thousand tons (7.8 thousand tons), down by 27%, and Interpipe Niko Tube – 222.6 thousand tons (20.6 thousand tons), down by 40.3%.
Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works produced 53.6 thousand tons of pipes (6.2 thousand tons), down by 2.9%, Lugansk Tube Plant was still idle.
Kominmet output dropped by 13%, to 163.4 thousand tons (15.2 thousand tons in November), Centravis – by 11.5%, to 17.7 thousand tons (1.6 thousand tons), AG Stal was idle, but in January-November 2014 it produced 21.3 thousand tons of pipes.
Dniepropetrovsk Tube Works output fell by 72.4% YoY, to 8.5 thousand tons, with 0.7 thousand tons in October and 1.8 thousand tons in November. In May-August the works was idle.
In 2014 major Ukrainian companies produced 1396.3 thousand tons of pipes, down by 13.7% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
