Ukraine: coal imports up in January 2018

In January Ukraine increased coal imports 1.8-fold, or by 1 million tons YoY, to 2.25 million tons. According to the State Fiscal Service, the value of the coal imported was $281.16 million, up by 64.5% YoY ($170.897 million). In particular, Russia supplied $170.579 million worth of coal (60.67%), USA – $91.017 million (32.37%), Canada –…

Ukraine: Interpipe sales up in 2017

In 2017 Interpipe increased sales by 35% YoY, to 767 thousand tons. According to the company statement, this is the best result in 3 years. In particular, pipe deliveries to the Ukrainian market grew by 29%, to 148 thousand tons, mostly because of the gas output increase. Combined sales in the Americas totaled 90 thousand…

Russia: Sibcable metal processing up in 2017

In 2017 Sibcable increased copper processing to 15 thousand tons and aluminum – to 2.7 thousand tons. In 2016 the company processed 14.1 thousand tons of copper and 2.1 thousand tons of aluminum. The combined increase totaled 1.5 thousand tons. According to the company manufacturing director Sergey Lipovka, the growth of processing and manufacture is…