Since 2015 Zaporizhstal has invested 30 million UAH in the support of the child sport, and together with other Metinvest companies and the Shakhter football club has initiated a new social project. Zaporizhstal, Zaporozhogneupor and Zaporozhye Casting and Foundry Works together with the Shakhter club are carrying out a project to provide 300 local children…
In July Zaporizhstal produced 331.9 thousand tons of pig iron, 322.3 thousand tons of steel and 263.4 thousand tons of rolled metal, all down by 26.3%, 9% and 12% YoY respectively. The decrease is due to the capital repair of the blast furnace No. 2. Investments in the repair exceeded 200 million UAH. In January-July…
Zaporizhstal railroad transport department employees have been awarded Metinvest CEO prizes for labor, health and environment safety. “The winners have designed a number of projects on labor safety to improve the safety of the railroad operation to the maximum”, the company said. Zaporizhstal and Zaporozhkoks have become winners in the Labor competition-2018 contest. This is…
In May, Zaporizhstal increased steel output by 6.8%, to 342 thousand tons. Pig iron manufacture grew by 7.7%, to 335.1 thousand tons, while that of rolled metal dropped by 5.1%, to 292 thousand tons. In 5 months Zaporizhstal produced 1.711 million tons of steel, 1.832 million tons of pig iron and 1.46 million tons of…
The modernization projects of Azovstal, Zaporizhstal and Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works have made it to the top-20 best environment programs. The rating comprised local and foreign companies operating in Ukraine. Both completed and programs in progress were taken into account. The rating is topped by Azovstal, with its blast furnace No. 3 reconstruction…
Zaporizhstal has successfully passed a re-certification audit and received a certificate of the correspondence to provide railroad transportation services. The specialists have inspected the systemic work of the company to replace rolling stock, provide for safety at all the stages of the transportation process and advanced training of the personnel. Since 2017, Zaporizhstal has been…
Zaporizhstal intends to restore up to 5 locomotives each year. “We are restoring our railroad fleet. This is the fifth locomotive returned to life in a year and a half. As efficient, environmentally friendly and comfortable, as a new one. But 7 times cheaper”, the company CEO Rostislav Shurma said. In January Zaporizhstal reported that…
In March Zaporizhstal produced 356 thousand tons of steel, down by 0.1% YoY. Pig iron output grew by 5.9%, to 387 thousand tons, while that of rolled metal dropped by 5.2%, to 296 thousand tons. In January-March Zaporizhstal produced 1.115 million tons of pig iron, 1.028 million tons of steel and 805 thousand tons of…
Zaporizhstal has put into operation a modern complex to trap industrial wastewater under the program of ecological modernization. With its help wastewater drop in the river Dnepr will decrease by 5 million cubic meters per year. Investments in the project totaled 58.5 million UAH. Since 2015 Zaporizhstal investments in environment protection allowed decreasing river pollution…
In February Zaporizhstal increased steel output by 3.7% YoY, to 329.7 thousand tons. Pig iron manufacture grew by 0.7%, to 360.9 thousand tons. At the same time the rolled metal output dropped by 3.5%, to 277 thousand tons. In January-February steel production went up by 0.4% YoY, pig iron dropped by 2.9% and rolled metal…
Zaporizhstal has already settled 60% of its environment issues. “In 6 years, having invested 10.6 billion UAH in modernization, we have completed major environment projects – assembled new exhaust systems at the sintering machine and blast furnaces, as well as constructed and commissioned a new rolling line”, the company capital construction and investments director Alexei…
Zaporizhstal decided to attract $18 million from Ukrgazbank. The decision has been taken at an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders. The shareholders have approved of taking a loan of $18 million for 5 years with the interest rate of 7% to 9%. The company CEO Rostislav Shurma, or an individual acting as a CEO, has…
In January Zaporizhstal decreased steel output by 2.5% YoY, to 354.1 thousand tons. According to the company press-service, pig iron manufacture dropped by 6.1%, to 369.9 thousand tons, and rolled metal – by 4.1%, to 289.9 thousand tons. Last year Zaporizhstal produced 4.105 million tons of steel, 4.386 million tons of pig iron and 3.537…
Zaporizhstal investment in the rolling stock modernization is 50 million UAH. “The shortage of the rolling stock is one of the issues for the whole Ukrainian industry, which has not been solved by the government after so many years. We have found an economically viable solution for ourselves, when we remotorized our first locomotive back…
In 2018 Zaporizhstal increased steel production by 4.6% YoY, to 4.105 million tons. According to the company statement, pig iron manufacture grew by 15.6%, to 4.386 million tons, and rolled metal – by 10%, to 3.537 million tons. In December 2018 Zaporizhstal produced 358 thousand tons of pig iron, 344.1 thousand tons of steel and…
Zaporizhstal held an extraordinary meeting of shareholders. The only issue discussed was the borrowing of $18 million from the state-owned Ukrgazbank. The shareholders voted to authorize the CEO of the company Rostislav Shurma to sign a loan agreement with the bank for 5 years with the interest rate of 7%. Zaporizhstal will pledge its assets…
In 2018 Zaporizhstal increased the shipping of its metal products via river transport to 674 thousand tons from 573 thousand tons last year. The key customers are Turkey, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia. Zaporizhstal resumed partnership with the Zaporozhye River Port in October 2012. Since then it has shipped some 3.7 million tons of metal by…
Zaporizhstal has put into operation the blast furnace No. 4 after capital repairs.
Investments in the project totaled some 100 million UAH.
The repair lasted for 15 days.
The capacity of the blast furnace is 1.1 million tons of pig iron per year. (Ukrainian metal)
In November Zaporizhstal produced 330.7 thousand tons of steel, up by 10.1% YoY. According to the company statement, pig iron output grew by 7.8%, to 341.7 thousand tons, and rolled metal – by 44.6%, to 269.3 thousand tons. In January-November the company increased steel manufacture by 5.4% YoY, to 3.762 million tons, pig iron –…
Zaporizhstal intends to attract a loan of $18 million from Ukrgazbank. The extraordinary meeting of the shareholders will decide on the issue. The loan will be attracted for the period of not more than 5 years, with the interest rate of 7% to 9%. The meeting will order the CEO Rostislav Shurma or another person,…
Energomashspetsstal has won a tender to supply 377 tons of rolls to Zaporizhstal. According to the company statement, the new agreement was signed following the tender held in November. Next year EMSS will produce 16 vertical and back up rolls for cold- and hot-rolling mills. The rolls will be shipped by installments according to the…
In April-May 2019 Zaporizhstal will complete the preparation of the site for the construction of the oxygen-converter shop. According to CEO Rostislav Shurma, the company is also constructing a 2.5km road. The construction of the shop has been entrusted to Metinvest Engineering. At present some 50 machines are operating at the construction sites. The CEO…
Zaporizhstal has successfully passed the quality management system audits for the correspondence to the international standards.
Bureau Veritas Certification Ukraine LLC awarded the company a new quality certificate.
Moreover, the European Fund for Quality Management also audited the company.
Zaporizhstal has become the best Ukrainian company according to the fund. (Ukrainian metal)
On November 16, on the day of its 85 years, Zaporizhstal received conformation of its records entered into the National project of records of Ukraine. This is the reconstruction of the blast furnace No. 3 and the environment initiative “Save the Dnepr Together”. The reconstruction lasted for 8 months, while usually it lasts for 1.5…