In July Ukrainian companies intend to increase steel smelting by 2.9%, to 2.52 million tons MoM. The companies also plan to produce 2.47 million tons of pig iron and 2.25 million tons of rolled metal, up by 5.1% and 2.3% respectively. An average daily pig iron output in July is forecast at 79.7 thousand tons…
In January-May Ukrainian metal companies earned $6007 million on ferrous metals export, down by 2.4% YoY. According to the customs statistics, ferrous metals exports rose to 24.74% of total exports from 22.62% a year ago. In May ferrous metals exports brought $1378.98 million to Ukraine. At the same time Ukraine decreased ferrous metals imports by…
In January-May Interpipe Steel produced 376 thousand tons of steel, down by 24% YoY. In May the works produced 88 thousand tons of steel as opposed to 65 thousand tons in April. The works is the key project of Interpipe directed at providing pipe and wheel manufacture with steel billets. Interpipe is among the top-10…
In January-May Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, a part of the Metinvest group, produced 1.43 million tons of rolled metal, down by 19% YoY. In the given period the works produced 1.69 million tons of steel and 1.5 million tons of pig iron, down by 10.7% and 8.4% respectively. Due to the shutdown of the…
In January-May ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih produced 2.15 million tons of rolled metal, down by 10.6% YoY. At the same time, steel smelting fell by 4.1%, to 2.48 million tons, while pig iron manufacture decreased by 3.1%, to 2.18 million tons, all YoY. In May the company produced 497 thousand tons of rolled metal, 611 thousand…
In April Ukrainian companies produced 121.1 thousand tons of manganese concentrate and sinter, up by 24%, or by 23.4 thousand tons. According to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers, manganese sinter output went up by 0.3%, or by 0.1 thousand tons, to 35.5 thousand tons, while that of manganese concentrate increased by 37.4%, or by…
In January-May the UK-based Ferrexpo Plc, controlling Poltava and Yeristov Mining and Processing Works (PGOK and EGOK), produced 4.58 million tons of pellets, up by 3.4% YoY. In the given period the company produced 5.72 million tons of concentrate, up by 5.7% YoY. In May Ferrexpo Plc produced 836 thousand tons of pellets and 1.11…
In April Ukraine’s leading ferroalloys manufacturer – Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NZF) – produced 1.6 thousand tons of ferromanganese, down by 51.5%, or by 1.7 thousand tons, MoM. At the same time the plant increased its silicomanganese output by 11%, or by 4.3 thousand tons, to 43.5 thousand tons. In January-April NZF produced 13.1 thousand tons…
