Yenakievo launches new rebar product for rock bolting mining tunnel roofs

Yenakievo Iron & Steel Works’ Makeevka Branch mastered the production of thread bar, the use of which simplifies and accelerates the process of rock bolting, an advanced method for affixing mine tunnel roofs.Rock bolt works immediately after installation, improving mine tunnel stability as rock stratification is prevented and the size of inelastic deformation areas is…

Metinvest issues January to August output results for its subsidiaries

In the January to August period of the current year the steel-making subsidiaries of Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest vertically integrated mining and steel group, saw an 8% increase in their crude steel production to 9.762 million tons, a 6% rise in their finished steel production to 7.024 million tons and a 7% increase in their pig…

Ukrainian steel makers report negative results for Q1 2011

Ukrainian steel companies reported their financial statements for the Q1 2011, which turned out to be much worse than expected.Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works posted negative EBITDA of $45 million which increased 1.5 times YoY, net losses almost doubled to $52 million. Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works’ net losses increased by a factor of…

Metinvest to increase efficiency of its steelmaking facilities

Metinvest announced that it plans to increase efficiency of its Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works by improving the production site administration and management.  The planned steps, taken within the frame of Metinvest’s ongoing continuous improvements, reconstruction and production modernization program are expected to result in growing margins of Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works due to increased…