In 2022, Metinvest enterprises started manufacturing 24 new product types, including with Zaporizhstal joint venture, which started making 8 products.
In particular, in the bars segment the enterprises started producing 8 items, in hot-rolled coils and sheets 6 and in steel semi-finished products also 6. Cold-rolled metal and plates added 2 items each.
Kametstal and Zaporizhstal joint venture accounted for the lion’s share of new products. As of February 24, Azovstal produced two new grades of plates for machine-building and pipe industry.
Kametstal started producing new ingots of 4 steel grades and hot-rolled blooms of new sizes, as well as rectangular billet 275×325 mm of modified special steel.
Zaporizhstal launched production of hot-rolled sheet with the thickness of 8 to 120 mm, hot-rolled coils of new grades and sizes previously produced at Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. (Ukrainian metal)