In May Ukraine produced 2593 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 8.9%, or by 213 thousand tons, MoM. In January-May pig iron output decreased by 0.6%, or by 73 thousand tons, to 12013 thousand tons YoY. In April Ukraine produced 2380 thousand tons of pig iron, down by 4.9%, or by 122 thousand tons,…
In May Ukrainian metal companies produced 2826 thousand tons of steel, up by 10.5%, or by 269 thousand tons, MoM. In January-May steel output went down by 6.5%, or by 899 thousand tons, to 12908 thousand tons YoY. In April Ukraine produced 2557 thousand tons of steel, down by 3.1%, or by 83 thousand tons,…
In June Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works intends to produce 9 thousand tons of structural shapes, close to May results. In particular, angles output is expected to reach 4.5 thousand tons (May level). Around 55-60% of the total volume will be covered by 100×100 mm angles. At the same time channel output is expected to…
In May Ukraine exported $105.8 million worth of ferroalloys, while imports totaled $20.9 million. However strange that may seem, the main importer happened to be Russia ($26.18 million). In January-May Ukraine exported $477.51 million worth of ferroalloys, and imported these products for $20.86 million. In 2013 Ukrainian exports of ferroalloys reached $906.35 million, while imports…
In May Ukrainian companies produced 136.6 thousand tons of manganese concentrate and sinter, up by 12.8%, or by 15.5 thousand tons, MoM. According to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers, May output of manganese sinter increased by 0.3%, or by 0.1 thousand tons, to 35.6 thousand tons, while manganese concentrate manufacture went up by 18%,…
In May Ukrainian companies produced 137 thousand tons of steel pipes, down by 2.1%, or by 3 thousand tons, MoM. In January-May steel pipes output decreased by 13.9%, or by 99 thousand tons, to 614 thousand tons, YoY. In April Ukraine produced 140 thousand tons of pipes, up by 3.7%, or by 5 thousand tons,…
In January-May Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after Dzerzhinsky, a part of the Industrial Union of Donbass, produced 1.03 million tons of rolled metal, down by 26.1% YoY. In the given period the works produced 1 million tons of steel, 911 thousand tons of pig iron and 1.57 million tons of sinter, all down…
In January-May Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works, a part of the Metinvest group, produced 1.59 million tons of rolled metal, down by 10.4% YoY. In the given period steel output fell by 16.1%, to 1.82 million tons, while pig iron manufacture went up by 10.6%, to 2.17 million tons, and that of sinter –…
In the third quarter of 2014 Donetsk Iron and Steel Works plans to return to the rolled plate market. The plate shop (512 thousand tons) was stopped in April 2012. Now it’s back in action. But the company hasn’t decided on the sales structure yet. Ukraine was considered the main sales market, but because of…
In May Ukrainian companies produced 103.7 thousand tons of ferroalloys, up by 47.7%, or by 33.5 thousand tons, MoM. According to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers, in January-May Ukraine produced 434.1 thousand tons of ferroalloys, up by 30.9%, or 102.5 thousand tons, YoY. In April companies produced 70.2 thousand tons of ferroalloys, down by…
In July Ukrainian companies intend to increase steel smelting by 2.9%, to 2.52 million tons MoM. The companies also plan to produce 2.47 million tons of pig iron and 2.25 million tons of rolled metal, up by 5.1% and 2.3% respectively. An average daily pig iron output in July is forecast at 79.7 thousand tons…
In January-May Ukrainian metal companies earned $6007 million on ferrous metals export, down by 2.4% YoY. According to the customs statistics, ferrous metals exports rose to 24.74% of total exports from 22.62% a year ago. In May ferrous metals exports brought $1378.98 million to Ukraine. At the same time Ukraine decreased ferrous metals imports by…
In January-May Interpipe Steel produced 376 thousand tons of steel, down by 24% YoY. In May the works produced 88 thousand tons of steel as opposed to 65 thousand tons in April. The works is the key project of Interpipe directed at providing pipe and wheel manufacture with steel billets. Interpipe is among the top-10…
In January-May Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, a part of the Metinvest group, produced 1.43 million tons of rolled metal, down by 19% YoY. In the given period the works produced 1.69 million tons of steel and 1.5 million tons of pig iron, down by 10.7% and 8.4% respectively. Due to the shutdown of the…
In January-May ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih produced 2.15 million tons of rolled metal, down by 10.6% YoY. At the same time, steel smelting fell by 4.1%, to 2.48 million tons, while pig iron manufacture decreased by 3.1%, to 2.18 million tons, all YoY. In May the company produced 497 thousand tons of rolled metal, 611 thousand…
In April Ukrainian companies produced 121.1 thousand tons of manganese concentrate and sinter, up by 24%, or by 23.4 thousand tons. According to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers, manganese sinter output went up by 0.3%, or by 0.1 thousand tons, to 35.5 thousand tons, while that of manganese concentrate increased by 37.4%, or by…
In January-May the UK-based Ferrexpo Plc, controlling Poltava and Yeristov Mining and Processing Works (PGOK and EGOK), produced 4.58 million tons of pellets, up by 3.4% YoY. In the given period the company produced 5.72 million tons of concentrate, up by 5.7% YoY. In May Ferrexpo Plc produced 836 thousand tons of pellets and 1.11…
In April Ukraine’s leading ferroalloys manufacturer – Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NZF) – produced 1.6 thousand tons of ferromanganese, down by 51.5%, or by 1.7 thousand tons, MoM. At the same time the plant increased its silicomanganese output by 11%, or by 4.3 thousand tons, to 43.5 thousand tons. In January-April NZF produced 13.1 thousand tons…
In April ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih produced 462 thousand tons of steel, down by 2.65%, or by 12.6 thousand tons, YoY.Rolled metal output went down by 18.1%, or by 90.2 thousand tons, to 405.9 thousand tons. At the same time pig iron production decreased by 0.29%, or by 1.2 thousand tons, to 410 thousand tons. (Ukrainian…
In April Ukrainian companies produced 70.2 thousand tons of ferroalloys, down by 19.5%, or by 17 thousand tons, MoM. According to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers, in January-April companies produced 330.4 thousand tons of ferroalloys, up by 27%, or by 70.3 thousand tons, YoY. In March metal companies produced 87.2 thousand tons of ferroalloys,…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has implemented wire rod manufacture. This product, made of SV08G2S grade steel, is used to make welding wire. Actually, this wire rod has already been produced at the works, but it was manufactured using an outdated method from blooming ingots. The new wire rod, made of billets from converter shop, has a…
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In May Zaporizhstal Iron and Steel Works produced 282.5 thousand tons of pig iron, 328.2 thousand tons of steel and 285 thousand tons of rolled metal, up by 22.8%, 17.4% and 14.3% YoY correspondingly. In January-May the works produced 1408.5 thousand tons of rolled metal, up by 6% YoY. Steel output grew by 4.1%, to…
In January-May Ukrainian metal companies produced 12.9 million tons of carbon steel, down by 6.4% YoY. Pig iron output fell by 0.6%, to 12.1 million tons, while rolled metal manufacture decreased by 2.9%, to 11.38 million tons, all YoY. In 2013 Ukrainian metal companies produced 29.03 million tons of rolled metal, 32.68 million tons of…