Ukraine: industrial prices in January 2015 up by 2.3%
Industrial prices in Ukraine after stability in December 2014 have started growing again, rising for the first month of the New Year by 2.3%.
Ukrainian metal companies decrease investments into reconstruction
In January-September Ukrainian metallurgical companies decreased capital investments into technical overhaul and modernization by 27.5%, or 783.2 billion UAH, to 3,695 billion UAH YoY. In 2013 companies mostly invested in construction of new objects and the already going reconstruction and modernization of existing capacities. Vital to the sector are the modernization of furnace manufacture and…
Ukrainian rolled metal market capacity shrinks
According to Dmitrii Lippa, CEO of “Metinvest-SMC”, in January-August Ukrainian rolled metal market capacity decreased by 5%, to 3.198 million tons, YoY.In particular, in the given period angle sales decreased by 19%, to 120,000 tons, as compared to the same period of 2012. Hot-rolled sheet and coil sales decreased by 11%, to 1.315 million tons,…