Ukraine: domestic steel market to grow in 2016
Metinvest-SMC, the Metinvest metal center network, believes rolled metal consumption in 2016 would increase by 2.6% YoY, to 3.35 million tons.
Ukraine: metal consumption, export and import down in January-September 2015
In January-September Ukrainian metal companies decreased their domestic sales by 21.7% YoY, to 1.96 million tons (13.1% of the total output) from 2.5 million tons (13.3%) in January-September 2014.
Ukraine: metal industry to suffer from Russian embargo
Russian embargo on Ukrainian products will mostly affect agriculture and metal sector.
Ukraine: metal output down in January-October 2015
In January-October Ukraine decreased its industrial output by 15.4% YoY.
Ukraine: metal prices down in October 2015
In October industrial products price index totaled 97.6% as opposed to 102% in September. This is without the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and the ATO zone.
Ukraine: metal industry starting to revive
In September Ukraine increased metal output by 3% YoY, according to the National bank recent report. The bank analysts have dubbed this “the breaking of falling tendency in metallurgy” and connected it to the ceasefire in the ATO zone.
Ukraine: metallurgy to see rise soon
Ukraine has unique natural conditions for the metallurgy development, so the industry will see a rise soon.
Ukraine: metal companies losses down in January-August 2015
In January-August the metal sector of Ukraine presumably decreased its losses by 11%, or by 1.8 billion UAH YoY, to 14.6 billion UAH, said Metallurgprom.