In January-May Ukraine exported 389.882 thousand tons of ferroalloys, down by 0.6% YoY, valued at $427.560 million, down by 5.8%. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main customers were Turkey (17.18%), Italy (16.21%) and the Netherlands (9.4%). In 5 months Ukraine imported 19.378 thousand tons of ferroalloys, down by 10.4% YoY, valued at $62.109…
In January-May Ukraine exported 16.867 million tons of iron ore raw materials valued at $1.428 billion, up by 12.7% and by 25.5% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main customers were China (23.8%), Poland (14.28%) and the Czech Republic (10.8%). In 5 months Ukraine imported 45 tons of iron ore raw materials…
In January-May Ukraine increased ferrous scrap imports by 38.4% YoY, to 28.71 thousand tons valued at $14.792 million, down by 10.9%. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main suppliers were Russia (49.09%), Turkey (43.71%) and Korea (3.13%). This year Ukraine did not import or re-export hot-briquetted iron. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-May Ukraine exported 36.515 thousand tons of ferrous scrap valued at $9.983 million, down 6.9-fold and 8.4-fold YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, in May 8.086 thousand tons of scrap were exported, in April – 8.791 thousand tons, in March – 8.246 thousand tons, in February – 8.252 thousand tons and in…
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has completed a number of capital repairs of machinery in the electric steel shops. In particular, a slab unit of the continuous casting machine No. 1 was repaired, ladle furnace No. 2 and steel degassing units. One of the most important repairs was carried out at the shaft furnace No.…
This year Polymetal intends to start constructing a factory in Krasnoturyinsk to process polymetallic ores in order to extract gold, silver, as well as copper and zinc concentrate. The factory is expected to be commissioned in 2022. Its design capacity will be 450 thousand tons of ore per year. Investments in the project will exceed…
Lvivugol miners have announced a strike and blocked an international highway as a protest to non-payment of salary. The participants of the strike demand the payment of hard-earned money. So far, only media have drawn their attention to the strike. Neither representatives of the enterprise administration nor regional authorities have spoken to them. Wage arrears…
Railroad deliveries of limestone in January-May dropped by 8% YoY, to 4.5 million tons. At the same time, in May they grew by 3%, to 1.1 million tons, the largest result since the start of the year. In 5 months deliveries to Donetsk region increased from 30% to 40%. Deliveries to metal companies decreased by…