In January-September, Almalyk Mining and Processing Works produced 22.9 trillion soums worth of goods, up by 3.1% from the target. Kalmakyr ore output exceeded the target by 1.3%. Copper raw materials processing increased by 0.5%. In September, the company reached its cathode copper output target, while in 9 months exceeded it by 2.2%. Metallic zinc…
There is no alternative to opening the Big Odesa ports in iron ore exports. A careful optimism has appeared on the market thanks to vessels with ore that have recently left the ports, the Metinvest CEO Yuri Ryzhenkov has said. Traditionally, Europe accounted for not less than 10% of Ukrainian iron ore products export, mostly…
In January-July, Ukraine exported 76.3 thousand tons of pipes to the USA, down 2.4-fold YoY. Revenue grew 2.1-fold, to $151 million. Pipes, tubes and hollow seamless sections of ferrous metals accounted for 76.29 thousand tons, up 2.4-fold. In July, Ukraine exported 5.2 thousand tons of pipes to the USA, down by 25% YoY and by…
The Ministry of Energy has decided to appoint Sergey Sivtsov the acting director of the state enterprise Krasnolimanskaya Coalmining Company. The decision to fire the director of the enterprise Vladimir Lysak was taken due to his dereliction of duty. Krasnolimanskaya stopped mining coal in 2018, while the license was given to the private Krasnolimanskaya LLC.…
In August, the Commercial Court of Donetsk region declared Ukrzinc OJSC bankrupt. The company has not been operating since 2002. New plants, such as Svinets LLC and Zinc PJSC, have appeared on its manufacturing assets. Ukrzinc was founded in Konstantinovka in 1930 to produce zinc. Its capacity then was 12 thousand tons of zinc per…
In September, Zaporizhstal produced 257.4 thousand tons of pig iron, 246.4 thousand tons of steel and 201.9 thousand tons of rolled metal, up by 73.1%, 130.6% and 125.8% YoY respectively. The increase was due to the resumption of the blast furnace No. 2 operation. In January-September, Zaporizhstal produced 1923 thousand tons of pig iron, up…
During the official visit of the Uzbekistan president to Germany, an agreement with KfW-IPEX Bank was signed to construct a new copper-smelting complex worth $2.55 billion. The construction is being carried out under an investment project “Developing the Yoshlik I deposit” according to the decree of the president “On additional measures to expand the manufacture…
In July, Ukraine exported 119.6 thousand tons of pig iron to the USA, up by 40.2% MoM and 4.7-fold YoY. In January-July, pig iron exports totaled 748.4 thousand tons, up 2.3-fold YoY. But compared with the pre-war 2021, exports decreased by 32.5%. In January, Ukraine exported 116.9 thousand tons of pig iron to the USA,…