Manufacturing results of July for the Ukrainian mining and metal industry will depend on the normal work of the railroad and the provision of coke and raw materials.
Ukrmetallurgprom wasn’t able to forecast output results for August, but it believed that in July Ukraine would produce 2.1 million tons of pig iron, 2.2 million tons of steel and 1.9 million tons of rolled metal.
So far July output exceeds June results by 10-15%.
In June Ukraine produced 1765 thousand tons of pig iron, 1830 thousand tons of steel and 1535 thousand tons of rolled metal, with the corresponding figures for January-June on the level of 11927 thousand tons, 12417 thousand tons and 10850 thousand tons respectively. (Ukrainian metal)
