Ukrzaliznychpostach, the State enterprise of railroad transport provision, chose Metinvest-Ukraine, a Metinvest group company specializing in wholesale in Ukraine and CIS (except for Russia), to supply rails and rail fasteners for 1187.123 million UAH. The offer was accepted on December 24th, 2013, the contract is to be concluded by January 23rd. The products are to…
DetailsIn January-November 2013 Zaporizhstal Integrated Iron and Steel Works increased steel output by 0.3%, to 3.486 million tons, pig iron production by 1.6%, to 2.932 million tons, but decreased pig iron output by 0.3%, to 2.935 million tons, all on YoY basis. In November 2013 Zaporizhstal produced 250.6 thousand tons of pig iron, 279 thousand…
DetailsUKRAINE&RUSSIA: STEEL-MAKING PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: FOUNDRY PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROUND BILLETS Month Ukrainian market, $/t, $1/UAH7.9898* min max October 507.75 569.02 November 491.88 603.55 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 30.11.13 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. (Ukrainian Metal) UKRAINE&RUSSIA:…
DetailsAccording to the State Statistics Committee, coal extraction in November increased by 1.3%, to 5.7 million tons YoY. Coal extraction increased by 3.1% to October figures. In January-November Ukrainian coal extraction decreased by 3%, to 57.6 million tons YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn January-November Ukrainian metal companies decreased ferrous metals export revenues by 8.1%, to $13096.844 million, YoY. According to the Customs service statistics, ferrous metals accounted for 22.82% of the whole export revenues, up from 22.57% YoY. In November ferrous metals export revenues reached $1201.686 million, while in October they were on the level of $1151.882…
DetailsIn January 2014 Ukrainian metal companies plan to produce 2.32 million tons of rolled metal, up by 3.98% as compared to November 2013. Pig iron output is expected to increased by 7%, to 2.5 million tons, steel output – by 5.8%, to 2.7 million tons. To meet these figures metal companies will need 610 thousand…
DetailsIn 2013 local rolled metal consumption in Ukraine would decrease by 6%, to 7.8 million tons YoY, according to Vladimir Vlasyuk, CEO of the state enterprise “Ukrpromvneshexpertiza” (UPE). He says, decrease in demand is connected to the increase in output fall in the main steel-consuming sectors – construction (by 16%) and machine-building (by 13%). UPE…
DetailsIn January-November Ukrainian ferroalloy companies decreased output by 18.9%, to 784.3 thousand tons, YoY. In particular, silicomanganese output decreased by 17.1%, to 568.7 thousand tons, ferromanganese production fell by 51.2%, to 73.3 thousand tons, metallic manganese output decreased by 50.4%, to 7.2 thousand tons, while ferrosilicon output increased by 15.6%, to 135.1 thousand tons. The…
DetailsIn January-November deliveries of scrap metal to Ukrainian metal companies decreased by 13%, to 3.95 million tons YoY. That corresponds to 88% of the calculated need. In November metal companies bought 416 thousand tons of scrap metal, up by 9.5% to October levels (92% of the calculated need). Stores of scrap metal in November increased…
DetailsIn January-November Ukrainian metal companies increased iron ore raw materials (IORM) imports by 5%, to 2.55 million tons YoY. In November metal works imported 240 thousand tons of IORM, up by 4.3% compared to October. In eleven months metal companies are supplied with 98% of pellets (from the calculated needs), 97% of agglomerate, 100% of…
DetailsIn 9 days of December Ukrainian metal companies decreased average daily output of rolled metal by 7.4%, to 68.9 thousand tons, compared to November. Average daily pir iron output increased by 2.3%, to 79.7 thousand tons, while steel output rose by 0.6%, to 85.6 thousand tons. As of December the 1st, metal companies operated 29…
DetailsIn January-November metal companies of the Dniepropetrovsk region produced 10.5 million tons of steel (106.6% YoY), almost 9 million tons of iron ore (110.4%), 2.2 million tons of sinter (120%), 51.3 million tons of iron ore concentrate (102.4%), 9.1 million tons of rolled metal (102.5%) and 12 million tons of pellets (103.6%). Pipe industry sees…
DetailsIn January-September Ukrainian metallurgical companies decreased capital investments into technical overhaul and modernization by 27.5%, or 783.2 billion UAH, to 3,695 billion UAH YoY. In 2013 companies mostly invested in construction of new objects and the already going reconstruction and modernization of existing capacities. Vital to the sector are the modernization of furnace manufacture and…
DetailsIn the first 11 months of the current year the crude steel production at ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, the Ukrainian subsidiary of the global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 5.866 million tons, down by 0.05% year on year, as announced by the company. In addition, in the first 11 months of the year ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih saw…
DetailsIn January 2014 Ukraine’s crude steel production is expected to decrease by 1.4% compared to the expected output in December this year to 2.70 million tons. In January 2014 pig iron output in Ukraine will total 2.50 million tons, down by 1.5% compared to the expected December 2013 result, while Ukrainian production of rolled steel…
DetailsThe Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is not going to impose quotas on imports of coking coal in the first quarter of 2014 as Ukrainian coke plants and companies have undertaken to buy a considerable proportion of coking coal from local state mines.Ukraine’s government decided to increase quotas on imports of coking coal in 2013…
DetailsUkrainian iron ore and agglomerate producer Uzhniy GOK (UGOK) announced that in November this year its iron ore concentrate production increased by 12.05% year on year to 940,100 tons. Its output of agglomerate in the given month increased by 70.61% year on year to 221,800 tons.In January-November UGOK’s iron ore concentrate production rose by 4.6%…
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