Zaporizhstal has successfully passed the second audit of the Energy management system for the correspondence with the ISO 50001:2011. The auditors have highly estimated the work of the company in energy resources management. Zaporizhstal has been certified and regularly confirming its compliance with the requirements of the international standards ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and OHSAS…
In 2017 Zaporizhstal increased net profit 2.5-fold YoY, to 5.118 billion UAH, having increased its net income by 5.2%, to 33.208 billion UAH. According to the company statement, the prime cost of metal sold totaled 23.724 billion UAH. Last year Zaporizhstal produced 3926.4 thousand tons of steel, up by 0.9% YoY. The company also produced…
In short-term prices of metal products will remain stable, but in the mid-term they are expected to decrease. “Taking into account China’s policy, in the nearest 12 months the prices will retain their current levels”, Zaporizhstal CEO Rostislav Shurma said. “At present we are not on the worst stage of the cycle. In short-term some…
In 2017 Zaporizhstal decreased prime cost of raw steel manufacture by $22 per ton. “We have a complex program on prime cost decrease. Last year we took some 400 measures to decrease it, which combined provided around $22 per ton”, the company CEO Rostislav Shurma said. Zaporizhstal has faced the increase of railroad, electricity and…
This year Zaporizhstal intends to produce over 4 million tons of pig iron and steel. “Pig iron manufacture will see the growth of some 15% and steel – around 3.5%”, the company CEO Rostislav Shurma said. Rolled metal output is expected to increase by 5%, to 3.7-3.8 million tons. Pig iron output has considerably increased…
Zaporizhstal has completed the project on environmental reconstruction of its sintering factory. The cost of the project is some $80 million. The modernization was carried out in stages: since 2012 the company has been commissioning one new gas-purifying unit each year. Such terms have to do with the fact, that the manufacturing process was not…
Zaporizhstal has used innovation techniques during the capital repairs of its blast furnace No. 3. According to the company CEO Rostislav Shurma, Mammoet (the Netherlands) has greatly helped in the process. The Dutch delegation visited Zaporizhstal on April 20 to get to know the environment modernization of the plant. In particular, the semi-knock down assembly…
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…