Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has announced that a new ring heating furnace has been commissioned at Interpipe Niko Tube to heat steel billets before rolling. The new furnace will enable high production capacity, energy efficiency, and reduction in metal consumption. The production capacity of the new furnace will be 325,000 tons…
In the January-October period this year, steel scrap supplies to Ukrainian steelmakers fell by 14% year on year to 3.530 million tons. In October alone supplies of scrap to Ukrainian steel mills reached 380,000 tons, up by 20.6% compared to September. (Ukrainian metal)
In December Ukraine’s crude steel production is expected to increase by 4.6% compared to October to 2.740 million tons. In December pig iron output in Ukraine will total 2.540 million tons, up by 6% compared to the October results, while Ukrainian production of rolled steel is expected to total 2.480 million tons, up by 4.1%…
In the January-October period of this year, Ukraine’s iron ore exports rose by 9% year on year to 32.1 million tons. Exports of iron ore from Ukraine increased by 17.2% in October compared to September, to 3.4 million tons.In the January-October period Ukrainian imports of iron ore increased by 8% year on year to 2.310…
In January-August rolled metal supplies to Ukrainian market decreased by 15.6%, to 3.892 million tons, year on year. The imports volume decreased by 16%, to 926 thousand tons. Imports share was 23.8% in contrast to 23.7% in January-August 2012. Rolled wire and galvanized steel supplies increased by 12.6% and 7.9% respectively. Compared to the 8…
In January-October Ukrainian ferroalloy companies decreased output by 20%, to 702.5 thousand tons, compared to the same period of last year. In particular, silicomanganese output decreased by 17.2%, to 509.9 thousand tons, ferromanganese – by 54.5%, to 65.8 thousand tons, metallic manganese – by 45.1%, to 7.2 thousand tons, while ferrosilicon (45%) production increased by…
By 2020 Ukrainian sheet steel market would have increased twofold as compared to 2012, to around 1.2 million tons, says Andrey Ozeichuk, business-director of Ruuki-Ukraine. But, according to his forecsts, next year Ukrainian demand for sheet steel would fall by 5-7%. He says, sheet steel market volume last year was almost 510 thousand tons. But…
In the first 10 months of the current year the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of the global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 5.3223 million tons, up by 0.3% year on year, as announced by the company. In addition, in the first 10 months of the year ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih saw a…
