Interpipe Steel produced 500.000 tons of steel

Interpipe Steel mill has melted the 500 thousandth ton of steel. The mill gradually increases its production capacities having reached the monthly production rate in the amount of approximately 85 thousand tons of steel round billets in December 2012.Mr. Gennadiy Yesaulov, director of Interpipe Steel, said that “The first heat at Interpipe Steel was conducted…

Ukrainian steel product exports in January-November 2012 down by 5.3% YoY

In the January-November period of 2012 Ukraine’s exports of steel products decreased by 5.3% compared to the same period of the previous year to 20.711 million tons.In November 2012 Ukraine’s steel product exports increased by 6.5% compared to October, to 1.824 million tons.During 11 months of 2012 Ukraine registered a 1.67% YoY decrease in its…

December 2012

UKRAINE&RUSSIA: STEEL-MAKING PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: FOUNDRY PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROUND BILLETS UKRAINE&RUSSIA: SQUARE BILLETS UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROLLED WIRE UKRAINE&RUSSIA: SLABS UKRAINE&RUSSIA: REINFORCEMENT STEEL, CLASS A1, A3 UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROUNDS, SQUARES UKRAINE&RUSSIA: BEAMS, CHANNEL UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ANGLES UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ORDINARY HOT-ROLLED SHEET Month Russian market, $/t, $1/RUR32.1961* Ukrainian market, $/t without VAT, $1/UAH7.9898* min max min max November 512.48 736.11…

Ukrainian steelmakers cut gas consumption due to new coal injection facilities

Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises have continued the upgrading of blast furnaces by installing coal injection facilities amid gas price hikes and tough competition on the domestic and foreign markets in 2012.Mr. Anatoliy Starovoit, director general of Dniepropetrovsk-based Ukrkoks association of coking and chemical enterprises, said that in 2013 smelters plan to produce 13.5 million tons of…