In January-July Mechel-Service increased metal sales from warehouses by 2% YoY.
“In 7 months of 2016 we shipped 852 thousand tons of products, this year – 871 thousand tons. Our sales network has expanded: we have opened a site in Biysk. Soon our subsidiaries will appear in Izhevsk and Volgograd”, the company CEO Leonid Polyansky said.
“I think 2017 will be like 2016 in terms of metal consumption. Perhaps there would even be a slight growth taking into account a positive statistics of construction works and the improvement of industry. Prices will increase in the short term”, he added. (Ukrainian metal)