Ukraine: ferroalloys export-import in March 2016
In March Ukraine exported $53.79 million worth of ferroalloys, with imports on the level of $4.84 million.
In March Ukraine exported $53.79 million worth of ferroalloys, with imports on the level of $4.84 million.
Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant has finished switching its drying plant to pulverized coal.
The newly appointed minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik has promised to visit Novovolynsk as he intends to keep the coal industry in the region.
In March Coal Energy S. A., owner of a number of assets in Ukraine, produced 25.63 thousand tons of coal, up 3.3 times YoY, or by 17.96 thousand tons.
Zaporozhkoks has started supplying coke gas to Zaporizhstal.
DTEK plans to sell its Obukhovskaya Mine Group and Donskoy Antrazit (Russia).
Metinvest is going to spend $17 million on construction of the pulverized coal injection machine in the blast furnace #4 of Azovstal, and plans to switch all blast furnace manufacture at the works from the expensive natural gas to pulverized coal fuel.
In January-March Ukraine procured 614 thousand tons of scrap. That’s the lowest result for the past 20 years. And the first time that the procurement can’t meet the local demand.