Zaporizhstal has opened the season of shipping metal products via water transport. This year the company intends to deliver some 600 thousand tons of metal via the River Dnepr. Zaporizhstal metal has already been delivered over the water to Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Georgia, Serbia and Macedonia. “This year we will keep the volumes of…
Zaporizhstal has successfully passed the re-certification audit of the hot-rolled metal correspondence to EN 10025-1 and the construction norms 305/2011. Cold-rolled coils and sheets have also been certified for the compliance with EN 10130. The audit has been carried out by TUV SUD. Zaporizhstal received EN 10025:2004 and EN 10130:2006 certificates in 2016. Since 2008…
In 2017 Zaporizhstal decreased profits by 15.4% YoY, to $170 million (4.5 billion UAH). According to Metinvest, the company revenue increased by 34.4%, to $1.775 billion, while EBITDA dropped by 18.2%, to $135 million. Metinvest owns 49.9% of Zaporizhstal, 24% of Zaporozhye Iron Ore Complex, 42.8% of Zaporozhkoks and 49.2% of Zaporozhogneupor. At the same…
For the International Women’s Day on March 8 Zaporizhstal has prepared a number of events for its women employees and the veterans of the company, as well as provided monetary aid to single mothers, mothers with many children and children with special needs. According to the company statement, all the women employees received money prizes…
Zaporizhstal is negotiating with European banks and financial organizations the issue of attracting a loan to construct a converter shop valued at over $1 billion. “We need to get loans, and that means trust in the first place. Unfortunately, the situation in the country has not changed for the past two years. And the political…
In January Zaporizhstal increased steel output by 11.3% YoY, to 363 thousand tons. According to the company statement, pig iron manufacture grew by 37%, to 394.1 thousand tons, and that of rolled metal – by 11.7%, to 301.9 thousand tons. The company notes that the increase in output is due to the commissioning of the…
In 2018 Energomashspetsstal will produce and supply 25 rolls for cold- and hot-rolling mills to Zaporizhstal.
According to the company statement, the total weight of the rolls will be 461 tons.
The corresponding contract was concluded in November 2017.
Delivery will be carried out by installments, according to the terms. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2018 Zaporizhstal intends to invest 34 million UAN in improving the life of its employees. According to the company statement, 19 premises with the size of over 6 thousand square meters will be repaired. “Since 2012 we have repaired 100 premises, and the organization of the comfortable rest for our employees is going on”,…
In December 2017 Zaporizhstal increased pig iron output by 38.2% YoY, to 365.7 thousand tons. According to the company statement, steel manufacture grew by 17.2%, to 357.8 thousand tons, and rolled metal – by 10.4%, to 295.2 thousand tons. In 2017 pig iron output increased by 5.4% YoY, to 3.795 million tons, steel – by…
In 2017 Zaporizhstal has increased transportation of its products by water by 6% YoY, to 573 thousand tons. According to the company statement, thus, 17% of the products were shipped by water. Traditionally the main consumers of Zaporizhstal metal, sent by water, are Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Romania. “Water transport is the most efficient way…
Zaporizhstal has put in operation its hydrochloride etching line in the cold-rolling shop No. 1 after a major overhaul. According to the company statement, the repair lasted for 7 days and cost some 35 million UAH. At the same time the company has also repaired the Tandem-1680 mill in the shop with investments at 14…
Energomashspetsstal has shipped a batch of rolls to Zaporizhstal. According to the company statement, the batch comprised of supporting rolls for cold- and hot-rolling with the total weight of 278.37 tons. The order has been carried out under the contract signed in 2011. In 2016 EMSS received the net loss of 1.497 billion UAH, down…
In November Zaporizhstal produced 300.5 thousand tons of steel, down by 3.6% YoY. According to the company statement, pig iron manufacture increased by 14.8%, to 316.9 thousand tons, while rolled metal output dropped by 30.2%, to 186.2 thousand tons. The decrease in manufacture is explained by the capital repairs of 1150 and 1680 rolling mills…
In October Zaporizhstal increased pig iron output by 17.8% YoY, to 372.4 thousand tons. According to the company statement, steel output dropped by 12.1%, to 292.5 thousand tons, rolled metal – by 6.9%, to 265.5 thousand tons. In January-October Zaporizhstal produced 3.11 million tons of pig iron, up by 1.7% YoY, 3.22 million tons of…
Zaporizhstal has postponed for half a year the construction of the oxygen-converter shop because of the EU duties on hot-rolled metal. According to the company CEO Rostislav Shurma, in 5 year Zaporizhstal invested 8.5 billion UAH into modernization, having assembled gas-purification equipment at all of its 6 sintering machines. The company has been pondering the…
In January-September Zaporizhstal produced 2.467 million tons of rolled metal, down by 3.2% YoY. Steel output decreased by 0.3%, to 2.931 million tons, the company reports. Pig iron manufacture dropped by 0.1%, to 2.74 million tons. At the same time, in September Zaporizhstal increased rolled metal output by 13.4%, to 382.2 thousand tons, steel –…
Zaporizhstal has set a record of pig iron manufacture – 13.2 thousand tons per day, up by 500 tons from the previous record. This has been achieved thanks to the reconstruction of blast furnace manufacture. The works has already invested almost 9 billion UAH into environment modernization. In 2012-2016 investments totaled 5.6 billion UAH, with…
The department of the State Architectural-Construction Inspection in Zaporozhye region has accepted the reconstruction of the blast furnace No. 3 of Zaporizhstal.
Reconstruction allowed increasing the blast furnace capacity to 1050 thousand tons of pig iron per year.
The size of the reconstruction site is 8.5 hectares. (Ukrainian metal)
Zaporozhkoks will increase the volume of coke gas supplies to Zaporizhstal to 17 million cubic meters per year. Under the energy efficient project to supply secondary gases to Zaporizhstal, Zaporozhkoks has modernized the coke gas regulator of the waste-heat boiler. This allowed decreasing volume of gas going to the boiler to 2 thousand cubic meters…
In January-June Zaporizhstal fulfilled all the 122 conditions lined out in the collective agreement for this year. The total amount of financial obligations under the agreement in H1 reached 180 million UAH. Average salary increased by 20%. Bonuses to the authors of the best ideas of efficiency reached 2 million UAH. 170 young employees received…
Zaporizhstal is implementing the project on remechanization of its diesel-locomotive shunters. According to the company statement, this will improve the lifetime of its fleet comprising 80 locomotives. In August the works carried out a pilot project. Investments totaled 8 million UAH. The modernization of the locomotive has been carried out by Nikolayev Locomotive-Repair Plant. Modernization…
In August Zaporizhstal produced 353.4 thousand tons of steel, up by 9.6% YoY. According to the company statement, pig iron output increased by 28.4%, to 381.8 thousand tons, and rolled metal – by 3.7%, to 2.175 million tons. In January-August Zaporizhstal produced 2.58 million tons of steel, 2.358 million tons of pig iron and 2.175…
Ukzaliznytsia can still improve its financial efficiency, Zaporizhstal CEO Rostislav Shurma believes, commenting on the renewed financial plan of the company for 2017. “Instead of the expected increase in efficiency, fight with corruption and as the result the optimization of expenses, I saw the growth of expenses by 10 billion UAH. And to cover them…
The Zaporozhye enterprises paid over 1 billion UAH to the city budget in January-July. The personal income tax amounted to more than half of all taxes – 654 million UAH, up by 357 million UAH YoY. The growth of the personal income tax was caused mostly by the salary increase at major companies. For example,…
According to Zaporizhstal CEO Rostislav Shurma, employees start leaving Ukraine because of the adoption of the visa-free regime between Ukraine and the European Union. “We have the problem of personnel leaving. We believe it has to do with the visa-free regime. Our task is to organize the work in such a way as to keep…
Zaporizhstal intends to continue the reconstruction works and produce 4 million tons of steel per year. According to the company CEO Rostislav Shurma, in the past 5 years Zaporizhstal has invested some 6 billion UAH into modernization, which allowed it to settle important environment issues. “We have almost completely renovated our blast furnace shop. 3…