In January-September Ukrainian metallurgical companies decreased capital investments into technical overhaul and modernization by 27.5%, or 783.2 billion UAH, to 3,695 billion UAH YoY.
In 2013 companies mostly invested in construction of new objects and the already going reconstruction and modernization of existing capacities.
Vital to the sector are the modernization of furnace manufacture and implementation of prospective technologies aimed at decreasing energy resources consumption. (Ukrainian metal)