In January-May Dneprospetsstal produced 56.6 thousand tons of rolled metal, down by 14.1% YoY. Steel smelting dropped by 11.9% YoY, to 90.6 thousand tons. In May the company produced 21 thousand tons of steel and 11 thousand tons of rolled metal. Last year DSS output went up by 38.2% YoY, to 6866.89 million UAH. At…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih started producing a new type of metal products according to NAN – die-rolled section No. 10 rebar with square core. In the near future the company plans to start producing such rebars of No. 8 and 12 sections. AMKR wire shop has already produced 1 thousand tons of square rebars. (Ukrainian metal)
Month Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.3334* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.1865* min max min max March 283 2154 376 376 April 323 2154 376 376 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 30.04.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
The state enterprise Ukrpromvneshexpertiza believes prices for square billets in June will decrease by 5.5-8.2% MoM, to $335-345 per ton FOB Black Sea. “Prices will drop following the decrease in China. The prices will decrease by $20-30 per ton”, said the company expert Oleg Gnitetsky. According to him, average billet price in May was $365…
Energomashspetsstal has concluded an agreement to produce and supply 15 billets to JKZ Bucovice. According to the company statement, EMSS will produce forged plates and rods and supply them in Q3. The total weight of the lot after mechanical treatment will be 172.53 tons. The billets will be used to produce die tooling. (Ukrainian metal)
Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company has opened a metal supermarket in Dnieper (previous name – Dniepropetrovsk). “In order to increase the regional network UGMK has opened another metal supermarket in Dnieper. The site is at Naberezhnaya Zavodskaya, 19d. The first supermarket is on the left bank of the city”, said the company in its statement.…
DTEK welcomes the transition to the new technique of calculating the price, where the coal price is linked with the European coal price index (API2). “Still we don’t feel any positive effect of the new technique yet. But the whole idea of bringing Ukrainian price to international market indexes is a correct decision, as the…
Kola MMC (Norilsk Nickel affiliate) has started repairs of a section of the gas duct used for off-gas transportation from smelting units of metallurgical shop to sulfuring acid production department of refining shop. It is planned to replace a total of 15 sections of the gas duct with the total length of 293 m. New…