In 2020, Zaporizhstal actively worked on improving the quality of its metal products. Last year, the crisis in the metal industry, worsened by the pandemic, resulted in steel output drop of 1.4% YoY in Ukraine. Some companies decided to increase output and capacity loading. At the same time, Zaporizhstal, while decreasing manufacture by 5%, improved…
In 2020, Zaporizhstal shipped 867 thousand tons of metal products via the Zaporozhye river port and 6.5 thousand tons via the Zaporozhkoks river terminal. Combined, these accounted for 95% of all cargo processed at the Zaporozhye port. Zaporizhstal decreased shipping by 4% YoY mostly due to the drop of global demand. Zaporizhstal shipped its metal…
In December 2020, Zaporizhstal increased steel output by 4.6% YoY, to 345.6 thousand tons. According to the company press service, pig iron manufacture grew by 0.9%, to 397.5 thousand tons, and rolled metal – by 5.2%, to 287.6 thousand tons. In January-December 2020, Zaporizhstal produced 4470.6 thousand tons of pig iron (+2.5%), 3783.7 thousand tons…
This year Zaporizhstal has mastered the manufacture of 8 new types of hot- and cold-rolled metal. “Next year we intend to start producing 7 more”, the company CEO Alexander Mironenko has said. In particular, Zaporizhstal has mastered the manufacture of DC01 cold-rolled coils for Marcegaglia with full correspondence to European quality standards. (Ukrainian metal)
In November, Zaporizhstal produced 387.6 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 9.9% YoY. Steel manufacture increased by 12.3%, to 329.2 thousand tons, and rolled metal – by 12.9%, to 275.1 thousand tons. In January-November, Zaporizhstal produced 4.073 million tons of pig iron, up by 2.7% YoY. At the same time, steel manufacture decreased by…
In October, Zaporizhstal successfully passed a re-certification audit of its integrated quality and environment management systems according to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015, as well as the second supervisory audit according to ISO 45001-2015 (labor protection). The audits have been carried out by the Bureau Veritas Certification Ukraine specialists. Following the inspections, Zaporizhstal has been…
In October, Zaporizhstal produced 399 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 1.1% YoY. Steel output drooped by 6.3%, to 327 thousand tons, and rolled metal – by 7.9%, to 270.7 thousand tons. In January-October, pig iron manufacture grew by 2% YoY, to 3.685 million tons, while steel fell by 8%, to 3.1 million tons,…
Zaporizhstal has purchased a LiuGong front-end loader for the blast furnace shop. Investments amounted to 2 million UAH. The efficiency of the new machine is higher compared with previous analogues: fuel consumption is 15% lower, while performance is 14% higher. (Ukrainian metal)
