Under its program to modernize manufacturing capacities, Zaporozhkoks has completed a 5-year repair of the coke-oven batteries Nos. 5 and 6 having invested 400 million UAH. The repair began in 2016. 122 coking chambers have been repaired, with reinforcing elements replaced. In 2020, Zaporozhkoks increased blast furnace coke output by 3.1% YoY, to 853.12 thousand…
In January-October, enterprises of the Urktruboprom Association increased pipe output by 30% YoY, to 581.8 thousand tons. In particular, Interpipe Niko Tube increased manufacture by 95.7% and Trubostal – by 21.4%. At the same time, Centravis decreased production of stainless pipes by 5.9% and Interpipe NMTZ – by 30.1%. Dneprovskiy Pipe Works has been declared…
The State Service of Geology and Subsoil has denied the provision of a special license to extract uranium ore at the Safonosvskiy site in Nikolayev region to Nuclear Energy Systems of Ukraine LLC. The decision was based on the company providing untrue data. Moreover, recommendations of a working group on subsoil use were taken into…
On November 1, Interpipe Steel successfully resumed operation after 12 days of scheduled repairs. In addition to traditional replacement of parts, 5 sections of water-cooling gas pipeline and a bearing of the arch furnace were replaced. Moreover technological axles were installed at both continuous-casting machines. All the scheduled work was fulfilled. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-September, Metinvest increased steel output by 13% YoY, to 6.93 million tons. In particular, Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works produced 3.2 million tons of steel, up by 7%, and Azovstal – 3.34 million tons, up by 6%. Rolled metal manufacture grew by 23%, to 5.3 million tons, with flat rolled metal up by…
The Ministry of Economy has developed and submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers a bill on the increase of the ferrous scrap export duty to EUR 200 per ton. The decision was taken without discussion with the market players. In January-September, Ukraine increased scrap export 27.2-fold YoY, to $175.6 million, and import – 2-fold, to…
Novokramatorskiy Machine-Building Works has finished producing the second stage of the machinery for the wire mill 350/250. The new mill will produce rods with the diameter of 10 to 30 mm and rolled wire of 5.5 to 12 mm made of steel and titanium alloys. This is the first mill of such kind completely designed…
In October, Ukraine produced 1.56 million tons of pig iron, down by 8.5% YoY. Steel output dropped by 3.08%, to 1.6 million tons, and rolled metal – by 0.5%, to 1.45 million tons. In January-October, Ukraine produced 17.7 million tons of pig iron, up by 4.9% YoY, 17.9 million tons of steel, up by 5.4%,…