Ukraine: metal output up in January-April 2018

In January-April Ukraine increased pig iron output by 9% YoY (including results of January-February 2017 at the uncontrolled territories of Donbass), to 6.89 million tons. Without the Russia-seized territories the output grew by 18%. Steel smelting dropped by 1% with seized territories, but increased by 5%, to 6.9 million tons without them. Rolled metal output…