In January-June major Ukrainian pipe companies produced 398.4 thousand tons of pipes, down by 7.1% YoY, with June output on the level of 69.3 thousand tons down from 70.5 thousand tons in May. Khartsyzsk Pipe Works, situated in the ATO zone, produced 2.8 thousand tons of pipes as opposed to 66.3 thousand last year. In…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has paid 50% of the so-called 13th salary for the first six months of work. According to the company statement, on July 12-13, all the money was transferred to the personal accounts of the employees. The company also decided to pay this salary to the mobilized employees for the period of January-June.…
DetailsThe supervisory board of Zaporozhye Aluminum Works has appointed the State Property Fund of Ukraine directorate head Svetlana Bezverkhaya its chairman. SPF department director Irina Lepyavko has been appointed deputy chairman, while the SPF chief specialist Natalia Pavlyuk – secretary of the board. All of them have been appointed for 2 years and 9 months.…
DetailsThe state coal market operator Derzhvuglepostach (DVP) has problems selling coal of state mining companies. “For the past two years the demand for electricity has fallen dramatically. Eastern territories have been taken from us, Energoatom loadings have increased. So, yes, there are problems with sales”, said the company director Andrei Plyugin. DVP sells only gas-generating…
DetailsIn January-June Ukrainian by-product coke works imported 6.1 million tons of coking coal and concentrate, up by 33% YoY, or by 1.5 million tons. In June Ukraine imported 870 thousand tons of coal, down by 90 thousand tons MoM. The works also received 3 million tons of Ukrainian coal, up by 9% YoY, or by…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 318 545 291 370 May 420 614 368 558 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsIn January-June Krivoy Rog Iron Ore Industrial Complex produced 2.4 million tons of iron ore, down by 7.4% YoY. According to a company representative, in June the works produced 368 thousand tons of ore. In 2015 KZhRK decreased iron ore output by 6.7% YoY, to 5.46 million tons. The company sells most of its ore…
DetailsNorilsk Nickel presents its new brand. Changes involved its name, view and key elements of the brand platform. New image of Nornickel is a quintessence of ideas and values related to the company’s activities represented graphically and visually. ‘Reliability’ and ‘Hope’ are the key words of the new communication platform. Reliability means quality of metal…
DetailsIn January-June Evraz Sukhaya Balka mined 1.3 million tons of iron ore, down by 6.2% YoY. According to a company representative, in June ESB mined 257 thousand tons of ore. Last year it produced 2.81 million tons of iron ore, down by 2.7% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsMonth Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max April 370 370 May 504 558 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. (Ukrainian Metal)
DetailsIn January-June ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih produced 2.86 million tons of rolled metal, up by 5.6% YoY. According to the company statement, steel smelting went up by 6.2% YoY, to 3.26 million tons, while pig iron output reached 3.08 million tons, up by 13.7% YoY. Sinter output increased by 11.6%, to 5.37 million tons, iron ore…
DetailsIn June Dniprostal produced 21181 tons of steel, up by 1.4% MoM. Rolled metal output went up by 4.6% MoM, to 12967 tons. The cost of the goods produced totaled 529.37 thousand UAH, up by 3% MoM. In January-June Dneprostal produced 111986 tons of steel and 70967 tons of rolled metal valued at 3.07 million…
DetailsDue to the railroad transportation and electricity tariffs increase expenses of the Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant will reach 130 million UAH in 2016 affecting the prime cost. “Railroad tariffs went up by 15%, electricity tariffs are growing all the time. That’s a gigantic weight on our shoulders. And we still have to meet a certain prime…
DetailsMariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has started producing S460MC coils. “Our rollers can now produce 2.5×1000 mm coils according to EN 10149-2”, said the company CEO Yuri Zinchenko. S460MC steel is characterized by high strength and is produced by way of thermomechanical rolling. This is the first time that such steel is produced at…
DetailsThe Verkhovnaya Rada of Ukraine has increased the export duty on the ferrous metals scrap from 10 euro per ton to 30 euro for 1 year and cancelled the registration of import contracts. 248 people’s deputies supported the new version of the decree, which blocked the previous one on the 3-years term. “This is the…
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