CIS: pig iron output down in 2018

In December 2018 Russia produced 4.175 million tons of pig iron, down by 9.3% YoY (4.04 million tons in November 2018). In the whole 2018 year pig iron output dropped by 1.6% YoY, to 51.2 million tons. Ukraine, no longer a part of CIS, decreased pig iron output in December 2018 by 3%, to 1.832…