In January-June Ukraine exported 20.5 million tons of iron ore raw materials, up by 2% YoY. Imports decreased by 92%, to 90 thousand tons, with no iron ore raw materials imports in June. In H1 Ukrainian metal companies received 12.1 million tons of local iron ore raw materials, down by 14% YoY. In 2016 Ukraine…
ArcelorMittal Temirtau intends to increase output of steel to 5 million tons by 2021 and start selling it in EAEU and Central Asia. The company CEO Paramjit Kahlon believes these countries are the most attractive to AMT. “We have found right markets for us to sell our products. We no longer orient to the Black…
The Karazhyra board of directors approved of the address to Altyn Bank to borrow $7.5 million for 36 months. The company has pledged 1.3 billion tenge worth of material resources to the bank. In January-May the East-Kazakhstan region, where Karazhyra is situated, exported 14255 tons of coal valued at $321.4 thousand to Uzbekistan and 2022…
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…
Dneprometiz has switched from public into private joint stock company. The decision was taken at the shareholders’ meeting on April 24. The change came in effect on July 18. On April 24 shareholders revoked the supervisory board of 4 persons, electing 5 instead, having reelected 3 from the previous board. In 2016 Dneprometiz received 34.73…
DTEK Trading LLC has for the first time put 14.5 million tons of gas coal on sale at an auction of the Ukrainian power exchange. All the volume is split into 29 lots of 50 thousand tons each. The initial price of each lot is 2580 UAH per ton with VAT. The coal will be…
Evraz Yuzhkoks, uniting Bagley and Kamenskoye (earlier – Dneprodzerzhinsk) coke plants, has started shipping products to Turkey. The export re-orientation has to do with the long idleness of Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine in Kamenskoye. In June-July coke deliveries to Turkey reached 16 thousand tons. According to Ukrkoks CEO Anatoly Starovoit, in near time coke…
The bill extending the increased duty on exports of scrap ferrous metal in the amount of EUR 30 per ton passed by Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada would not apply to exports to the European Union member countries, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze has said. “As for the scrap metal…