In January-June Mechel-Service increased earnings by 12% YoY, to 28 billion rubles.
Beam sales increased by 15%, pipes by 18% and stainless sheet by 22%.
Metal sales in volumes remained almost on the previous year level – 904 thousand tons.
“We see the first half year results as quite positive. Against the drop in metal consumption in the country we have kept sales volume and retained our market share”, the company CEO Leonid Polyansky said. (Ukrainian metal)