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In March Ukraine produced 1460 thousand tons of bulk coke (6% moisture), up by 11.4%, or 149 thousand tons MoM. In January-March coke output decreased by 3.8%, or 170 thousand tons, to 4262 thousand tons YoY. In February Ukraine produced 1311 thousand tons of bulk coke (6% moisture), down by 12.1%, or by 180 thousand…
Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works (Lugansk region) intends to invest 183 million UAH into development. One of the key projects is the construction of a new blast furnace, resulting in the increase of pig iron output and strengthening of the company economical indexes. According to Taras Shevchenko, chairman of the works, salary is expected to…
In the first quarter of 2014 ferrous metal exports decreased by 4.5%, to $3.4 billion, while import dropped by 28.7%, to $324.5 million, YoY. Physical volumes remained on the last year level. The major part of export in the first quarter were the semi-finished products – $1.3 billion, down by 2.1% YoY, while flats dominated…
In January-April Ukrainian metal companies produced 10.08 million tons of carbon steel, down by 8.8% YoY. At the same time pig iron manufacture decreased by 2.7%, to 9.41 million tons, while rolled metal production dropped by 8.5%, to 8.98 million tons. In 2013 Ukrainian metal companies increased rolled metal output by 0.3%, to 29.03 million…
In January-April Zaporizhstal increased pig iron output by 1.3%, steel output – by 1.1% and rolled metal – by 4.1% YoY. In April the works produced 273.4 thousand tons of pig iron, 323 thousand tons of steel and 276.5 thousand tons of rolled metal. In April Zaporizhstal demonstrated an increase in the manufacture of all…
In January-March major pipe companies of Ukraine produced 337.1 thousand tons of ferrous metals pipes, down by 15.4% YoY. In March pipe output was on the level of 135.7 thousand tons, up by 17.5% MoM. Khartsyzsk Pipe Works has dramatically decreased its pipe output from 47.5 thousand tons in the first quarter of 2013 to…
In March the major Ukrainian ferroalloys manufacturer – Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NZF) – produced 3.3 thousand tons of ferromanganese, down by 34%, or 1.7 thousand tons, MoM. At the same time NZF decreased its silicomanganese output by 0.8%, or 0.3 thousand tons, to 39.2 thousand tons. In January-March NZF produced 11.5 thousand tons of ferromanganese,…