In the first quarter of 2016 Zaporizhstal has paid 1.2 billion UAH to budgets of all levels, up by 45% YoY. The company is one of the largest taxpayers in Zaporozhye region and Ukraine. Zaporizhstal has paid 197 million UAH to the city budget, up by 80% YoY. In 2015 the company paid 2.5 billion…
Zaporizhstal has started assembling gas-purifying equipment on its sintering machine #5.
The Ministry of economy of Turkey has cancelled temporal measures on hot-rolled coil imports from China, Russia, Japan and Slovakia.
Under the current price situation on the global markets, scrap export duty from Ukraine should be on the level of 50-60 euro per ton.
Zaporizhstal has finished capital repairs of the blast furnace #5.
Zaporozhkoks has started supplying coke gas to Zaporizhstal.
Metinvest enlarges its range of boron-containing rolled steel by starting producing 2.5 mm thick sheet.
In late March Pakistan imposed additional duties on rolled metal from Ukraine. Ukrainian metal makers could lose $2-5 million.