Because of the growing prices of coking coal, provision of by-product coke plants decreased by 15% in September.
This resulted in the drop in the production of steel and pig iron leading to the increase of steel prime cost.
In January-August, by-product coke plants received 8.63 million tons of coking coal, down by 1.1% YoY, including 2.49 million tons of domestic coal (+8.3%) and 6.14 million tons of imported (-4.5%). (Ukrainian metal)