In January, Ukraine produced 283 thousand tons of steel, down by 84.7% YoY. Pig iron manufacture dropped by 86.6%, to 240 thousand tons, and rolled metal – by 84.6%, to 257 thousand tons. In 2022, Ukraine produced 6.26 million tons of steel, down by 70.69% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2022, Ukraine produced 3.91 million tons of bulk 6% moisture coke, down by 59% YoY. Metallurgical coke manufacture totaled 3.354 million tons. In December 2022, Ukraine produced 198 thousand tons of bulk coke, down by 15.7%, including 171 thousand tons of metallurgical coke, down by 16.2%. By-product coke plants received 4.594 million tons of…
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih intends to increase the loading of its capacities from the current 25% to 50% due to improvement of energy supplies in the first half of the year. At present, the company operates only one blast furnace out of four, but with the improvement of energy supplies, it will resume operation of another…
To develop Ukrainian enterprises that extract iron ore, Metinvest needs to find a constant customer. That’s how the group CEO Yuri Ryzhenkov commented the plans to buy Dunaferr. “We have never made it secret that other European assets are of interest for us. Metinvest has been looking at European assets all the time, especially in…
In January, Kametstal repaired the BGV unit of the mill-400/200. “The mill products, in particular rebars and wire rod, are in high demand. So this is now the focal point of the company. To provide for a stable operation of the mill, in January the BGV unit was repaired,” the company said. The mill has…