Metinvest has started supplying its own coal to ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih. “These are trial batches. We have never used their coal before. It has certain peculiarities, which affect coke quality. So we need a new recipe, which we are developing. Metinvest will take excess coke from us, as due to war they can no longer…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih will consider launching its blast furnace No. 9, the largest in Europe, not earlier than June. “Until the end of May we should reach the 100% capacity on iron ore and 50-60% in metal manufacture. When everything is operating smoothly, we will think about launching the BF9,” the company CEO Mauro Longobardo…
Ukrmetallurgprom will suspend its membership in the Worldsteel Association until Russia is removed from it. In his letter to the association, the enterprise president Oleksandr Kalenkov said, that the war, which in Russia was cynically called “special operation”, had been going on for over a month now. Since its start, the Russian troops have demonstrated…
On May 2, ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to launch blast furnace No. 8. “The loading of raw materials, the blowing of the furnace and the production of the first pig iron from the newly launched blast furnace No. 6 will be a historical event, as we are doing this during war,” the company CEO Mauro…
The Severniy Mining and Processing Works has started producing concentrate with high content of iron. In particular, the iron content was increased to 67%. This has been achieved with the distribution of ore flows from quarries. The same was used during the global crisis in metallurgy in 2008 to retain sales markets. (Ukrainian metal)
Corum Group has launched manufacture in Khmelnitskiy and Volyn regions. The company has already started producing equipment and spare parts for the DTEK Energo mines. The site in Khmelnitskiy region will produce anchoring and fire pipes. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-February, ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih increased rolled metal output by 6.7% YoY, to 800 thousand tons. Steel manufacture went up by 12%, to 870 thousand tons, and pig iron – by 5.7%, to 930 thousand tons. In early March, AMKR had to suspend operation due to war. In Q1, the company produced 860 thousand tons…
Metinvest has provided around 2 thousand jobs at its enterprises in Kriviy Rih, Zaporozhye and Kamenskoye for Mariupool citizens who have been able to evacuate from the besieged city. “Since the end of February, due to the military activity and constant shelling, the operation of Metinvest enterprises in Mariupol has been suspended. Our colleagues were…