Ukraine: DTEK to sell its Russian assets
DTEK plans to sell its Obukhovskaya Mine Group and Donskoy Antrazit (Russia).
Ukraine: Azovstal starts constructing PCI machine
Metinvest is going to spend $17 million on construction of the pulverized coal injection machine in the blast furnace #4 of Azovstal, and plans to switch all blast furnace manufacture at the works from the expensive natural gas to pulverized coal fuel.
Ukraine: scrap procurement down in Q1 2016
In January-March Ukraine procured 614 thousand tons of scrap. That’s the lowest result for the past 20 years. And the first time that the procurement can’t meet the local demand.