Russia produces around 19 million tons of hot-rolled sheet per year, including 14 million tons of thin sheet and 5 million tons of plates. In 2017-2018 a third of this volume was exported. Hot-rolled metal imports grew from 1 million tons in 2016 to 2 million tons in 2017-2018. Domestic consumption of hot-rolled metal in…
In January-February, Ukrainian metal manufacturers sold 369 thousand tons to the domestic market. The share of the market in the output was 12%. In January-February 2018, domestic market received 470 thousand tons of metal, and the share was 15.2%. All in all, domestic market in 2 months received 555.9 thousand tons of rolled metal, including…
In January-April, Sverdlovsk region railroad transported 11.9 million tons of cargo, up by 0.2% YoY. In April throughput dropped by 0.9%, to 17.5 billion ton-km. In particular, transportation of ferrous metals grew by 7.9%, to 3.6 million tons, of ferrous scrap – by 0.3%, to 728.4 thousand tons, of iron and manganese ore – by…
In April, Russian railroad transported 107.1 million tons of cargo, down by 1.9% YoY. At the same time, in January-April, transportation grew by 0.1%, to 425.8 million tons. 39.4 million tons accounted for iron and manganese ore, up by 6.8%. Russian railroad transported 25.7 million tons of ferrous metals, down by 2.8%, as well as…
In January-February metal companies decreased rolled metal consumption by 16.2% YoY, to 555.9 thousand tons. Imports accounted for 186.9 thousand tons, or 33.6%. In January-February 2018, the domestic market consumed 663.1 thousand tons of rolled metal, including 193.1 thousand tons, or 29.1% of imported metal. In 2 months Ukraine produced 3.08 million tons of rolled…
In January-February, export prices increased by 11.1% YoY, and import prices – by 8.5%. In particular, ferrous metals export prices dropped by 5.3%, ferroalloys – by 3%, aluminum – by 2.7%, copper – by 2.3%, zinc – by 1.5% and chromium ores – by 1.7%. At the same tine coal prices grew by 14.7%, copper…
Local market is demonstrating low demand mostly due to elections. Since mid-March sales have been very low. Plate prices are stable, while rebars have grown in price by 200 UAH per ton. In central regions 8-10 mm rebars are traded at 16,350-16,650 UAH per ton EXW. 12-32 mm rebars grew in price to 16,100 UAH…
The quota for the delivery of metal to EU countries will be in effect for 95 days. As of March 27, Ukraine has fulfilled 93.66% of the hot-rolled flat metal quota (1.2 million tons delivered), 51% of cold-rolled flat metal (52.1 thousand tons), plates – 25.93% (88 thousand tons), rebars – 60.29% (37.7 thousand tons),…
