Interpipe rolled the first lot of seamless pipes, using the billets, produced at the new Dniprostal electric steel-smelting complex. The first pipe was rolled at the Interpipe NTRP plant.The first pipe passed the entire set of tests, which confirmed the high quality of the billet steel. Production of the first pipe means that Interpipe moves…
Azovstal Iron & Steel Works summarized work in the field of quality and extension of product mix for 2011. Last year specialists of Azovstal Iron & Steel Works mastered production of 37 new steel grades and over 20 types of rolled products.Currently Azovstal Iron & Steel Works is able to accept the orders for more…
In 2011 Ukraine’s exports of steel products increased by 1.7% YoY to 24.138 million tons.In December 2011 Ukraine’s steel product exports increased by 12.5% MoM to 2.258 million tons. In 2011 Ukraine registered a 9.8% increase YoY in its steel product imports to 1.843 million tons. In December 2011 Ukraine’s steel product imports decreased by…
In 2011 Ukrainian exports of pig iron increased by 19.8% YoY to 1.774 million tons.In December 2011 exports of pig iron from Ukraine increased by 38.6% compared to November to 246,900 tons.In 2011 Ukraine’s imports of pig iron decreased by 32.2% YoY to 43,700 tons. (Steel Orbis)
In 2011 Ukraine registered a 12.3% increase YoY in its flat steel imports to 936,000 tons. In December 2011 Ukraine’s flat steel imports decreased by 3.6% compared to November falling to 86,300 tons.On the other hand, last year Ukraine’s flat steel exports increased by 15.2% YoY to 7.563 million tons. In December 2011 Ukraine’s flat…
In 2011 Ukraine registered a 14% YoY increase in its long steel product imports to 430,900 tons. In December 2011 Ukraine’s long steel product imports decreased by 16.7% MoM to 33,900 tons.Also in 2011 Ukrainian exports of long steel products decreased by 0.1% YoY to 2010 to 5.768 million tons. In December 2011 Ukraine’s long…
Ukraine boosted its production of crude steel by 5.7% to 35.3 million tons in 2011. Ukraine is the world’s eighth largest steel producer. The world crude steel production reached 1.527 billion tones in 2011 increasing by 6.8% YoY.Ukraine produced 33.5 million tons of steel in 2010, a 12.4% increase from 2009. (Unian.net)
In 2011 Ukrainian exports of semi-finished steel products decreased by 5.2% YoY to 10.807 million tons.In 2011 Ukraine exported 5.572 million tons of steel slabs, up by 1.6%, while exports of square billets went down by 12.7% to 5.139 million tons, both compared to 2010. Meanwhile, exports of semi-finished steel products from Ukraine increased by…