The mining and metal complex is increasingly more dependent on export possibilities than other spheres of Ukrainian economy – on foreign markets Ukraine used to sell around 60% of its mining products and 80% of metal. 70% of metal products were exported via seaports, Alexander Kalenkov, president of the Ukrmetallurgprom Association, said. Under the current…
In 2022, Ukraine dropped to the 24th place among global steel producers, according to Worldsteel. Ukraine produced 6.26 million tons of steel, down by 70.69% YoY. Pig iron manufacture decreased by 69.8%, to 6.39 million tons, resulting in Ukraine landing on the 15th place among 40 global producers. (Ukrainian metal)
At the end of 2022, Zaporizhkoks successfully passed supervisory audits of the integrated management system for conformity to the requirements of international standards of quality, ecology, labor protection and energy management. In particular, the company passed ISO 9001:2015 (quality), ISO 45001:2018 (labor safety), ISO 50001:2018 (energy management) and ISO 14001:2015 (ecology) audits. The audits were…
On October 12, 2022, ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih shut down coke-oven batteries Nos. 1 and 2. This will help decrease pollution by 2.5 thousand tons per year. In particular, emission of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, benzene and phenol will be decreased. (Ukrainian metal)
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has announced the decommission of its oldest sintering line, that has been used to provide around 8 thousand tons of sinter per day to the blast furnace No. 1, due to the decrease in output because of the war and in order to conform to its obligation to decrease environment impact. Now…
Sukhaya Balka intends to replace electric detonators with non-electric ones in order to improve efficiency and safety of explosive works. Electric detonators have a 5% rate of failure. Thus, there could be 800 failed explosions in a year. This results in additional work of demolition workers and tunnellers. Moreover, electric detonators are dangerous. The innovation…
Due to logistics limitations, in 2022 Zaporizhstal worked at 50% of its capacity. According to the CEO Roman Slobodyanyuk, at the end of last year the company had to additionally decrease capacity due to the lack of electricity connected with Russian missile attacks on energy infrastructure. “At the end of 2022 we faced problems in…
The Pokrovskoye Mine Group is preparing to launch for long faces. They will be gradually commissioned this year. The first long face to be launched will be the 9th northern face of the block No. 10. Its reserves exceed 1 million tons of coal. The first coal will be produced in March. (Ukrainian metal)
