In April-June Evraz Sukhaya Balka renewed iron ore mining after the halt in Q1 due to the low demand. In Q2 bulk ore output at the works went up by 49.1% QoQ, to 782 thousand tons, though it decreased in H1 by 6.2%, to 1.3 million tons. According to the company statement, in H1 iron…
Metinvest CEO Yuri Ryzhenkov believes in 2016 domestic metal market will grow by 10% YoY. “Last year Ukraine saw the lowest metal consumption results in its newest history. So far the economy is idle: there is no increase in construction, or in machine-building. And these are our main metal-consuming industries”, he added. (Ukrainian metal)
In April-June Evraz Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works increased metal and coke output. According to the company statement, this has to do with the demand increase. Semi-finished products output decreased by 2.8% QoQ, to 130 thousand tons, while section steel manufacture went up by 20.3% QoQ, to 94 thousand tons. Carbon steel smelting in April-June…
Manufacturing results of July for the Ukrainian mining and metal industry will depend on the normal work of the railroad and the provision of coke and raw materials. Ukrmetallurgprom wasn’t able to forecast output results for August, but it believed that in July Ukraine would produce 2.1 million tons of pig iron, 2.2 million tons…
Half Ukraine’s thermal power plants get coal from mines, and the state now owns only 35 of them, and their number could drop to 7. “What the energy minister Nasalik says, differs from the real situation. Ukraine owns only 35 mines. If it retains control over 7 of them, 28 would leave the state ownership,…
In January-May Mezhdurechensky Mining and Processing Works and Valki-Ilmenit, both owned by Group DF, produced 69.8 thousand tons of ilmenite concentrate. In particular, MGOK produced 54.7 thousand tons of concentrate, while Valki-Ilmenit – 15.1 thousand tons. The maximal capacity of MGOK is 200 thousand tons of ilmenite concentrate per year, and Valki-Ilmenit can produce 65…
Month Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max April 206 278 May 206 370 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. (Ukrainian Metal)
Despite the prohibition and the recommendations of the Ministry of economical development and trade, the State Fiscal Service goes on providing documents for ferrous metals exports, mainly through Nikolaev and Kherson customs. In June Turkey imported 26.77 thousand tons of the raw materials through various customs. Nikolaev trade seaport transshipped 6.34 thousand tons of scrap,…