According to Mr. Sergey Grischenko, Deputy Minister of Ukraine, as he announced during the plenary session of Ukrainian part of the inter-governmental Ukrainian-Chinese commission on industrial and trade cooperation, Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises in January to August this year supplied 1.7 million tons of rolled steel to China whereas in the same period of last year…
According to the data released by metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, during January to September 2009 Ukraine imports of steel products registered a decline of 64.4% YoY to 527,900 tons.Accordingly, during the period in question, the biggest decreases YoY in imports in the Ukrainian steel market were registered by shaped sections; imports…
According to the data issued by metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in January to September 2009 Ukraine steel market was down by 41.1% YoY to about 4.165 million tons.During the period in question, the share of imports in the domestic market decreased from 20% YoY to 12% YoY amounting to 527,900 tons…
According to Mr. Sergey Grishchenko, Ukrainian deputy minister of industrial policy, Ukraine expects in November this year to maintain its output of crude steel at the October level.Mr. Grishchenko said over the first 23 days of October Ukraine average daily crude steel output reached 90,000 tons. He said that “Thus, we can already say that…
According to the data issued by the Ukrainian Metal Traders Association, in January to September 2009 the country rolled steel consumption was down by 45.4% YoY to approximately 3.695 million tons. Meanwhile, during the period in question, imports of rolled products to Ukraine went down by 70.7% YoY to 463,904 tons.Accordingly, in January to September…
Mr. Boiko, CEO of Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works, in an interview with Radio “Liberty” said that the situation in the Ukrainian steel industry will become worse in the next four months. He told that “The reason is an increase in production in the previous few months which has not been supported by a…
On October 5th 2009, pursuant to subsection 38(1) of the Special Import Measures Act, the President of the Canada Border Services Agency made a preliminary determination respecting the alleged injurious dumping of certain carbon steel plate and high strength low alloy steel plate originating in or exported from Ukraine. (SteelGuru)
In the H1 of 2009 57 million UAH were invested in the PCI project at Zaporizhstal. Before the year is out, it is planned to invest about another 100 million UAH. Cold commissioning of the PCI plant is planned for December.Introduction of the PCI plant will take place step by step. Mastering of the plant…