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…
According to preliminary results, in 2012 Zaporizhstal’s finished steel product output decreased by 0.7% to 3.15 million tons, while its crude steel production declined by 0.7% to 3.78 million tons both compared to 2011.In 2012 Zaporizhstal saw a 5% YoY increase in its pig iron output to 3.19 million tons. (SteelGuru)
According to the data, issued by Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers, in 2012 Ukraine registered an 11.9% decrease in its finished steel product output to 26.819 million tons, a 6.6% decrease in its crude steel output to 32.394 million tons and a 1.3% decline in its pig iron production to 28.513 million tons all on year…
Steelmaking production in Ukraine in 2013 will grow by 3% compared to the expected performance of this year up to 33.7 million tons.Director of the Ukrpromvneshekspertiza Centre Mr. Volodymyr Vlasyuk said in 2012 domestic steel plants made 32.7 million tons of steel. He said that the following year steelmakers would be favored by the fall…
Ukrpromvneshekspertyza director Volodymyr Vlasiuk said that EU countries’ share of exports of Ukrainian metal products was 28%, while the share of the CIS states was 16%, 70% of this going to the Russian market.Mr. Vlasiuk said: “The EU sales market is more important to us then the Russian market, there is a need to diversify…
Metinvest, Ukraine’s biggest steelmaker, will remove from operation a sinter facility at its Azovstal plant.The plant will shift its sinter production to Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works.The cost of restoring sinter production at Ilyich will top $300 million. (SteelGuru)
According to the data, issued by Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers, in the January to October period of the current year Ukrainian exports of steel pipes decreased by 1.2% YoY to 1.352 million tons worth a total of $1.632 billion. In October alone steel pipe exports from Ukraine increased by 0.5% compared to September to 123,780…
In the January-November period of the current year the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, the Ukrainian subsidiary of the global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 5.869 million tons, up by 13.8% YoY.In addition, in the first 11 months of the year ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih registered a 14.3% YoY increase in its finished steel output…