It is reported that In January to September Ukraine increased its exports of steel pipes to Russia by 55% YoY to 413,900 tons including 204,900 tons of seamless pipes, up by 41% YoY, 116,800 tons of welded large diameter pipes, up by 13.6 times, and 92,200 tons of welded medium and small diameter pipes, down…
Mr. Alexander Kirichko, general director of the Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe, has presented the company’s new electric steel smelting complex, Interpipe Steel.The Interpipe Steel project was presented during a meeting of the Regional Committee on Economic Reforms that was held in Dnepropetrovsk on 12 October. Interpipe Steel remains the largest investment…
Ukrainian flat steel producer Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has said that, following its September output decrease mainly caused by the accident at its power plant, in October this year it plans to produce 414,000 tons of pig iron, up by 12.5% MoM, and 500,000 tons of crude steel, up by 9% MoM.In addition,…
In September Ukrainian crude steel output continued to show improvement, with domestic steelmakers producing 2.742 million tons, up by 5.5% compared to August and with the average daily output increasing by 9% MoM to 91,340 tons. September improvement was mainly driven by the ISD subsidiary Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD),…
According to preliminary data, in the first nine months of 2010 the pipe producing subsidiaries of Ukraine’s Interpipe Corporation increased their steel pipe output by 62% YoY to 627,100 tons as compared to the same period of last year.Specifically, in January to September Interpipe NTRP registered a 49.7% increase in its steel pipe production to…
According to the data, issued by the Ukrainian iron ore and steel producer Metinvest Holding, in September its subsidiary Khartsyzsk Pipe Works (KhPW) saw its large diameter pipe output increase to 38,500 tons from 25,300 tons in August, registering a 52.2% MoM.In the first nine months of this year, KhPW produced 182,600 tons of LD…
It is reported that in September the Ukrainian pipe making industry demonstrated a 12.7% growth rate. For the third month in a row, KhPW is demonstrating double digit pipe output growth, this time with a 52.2% MoM growth, nevertheless trailing last year January to September performance by 59.7% YoY.Interpipe NVTR production has doubled decline rate…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has said that in September this it had managed to stabilize its production process and to solve problems regarding the operation of its sinter plant. Mr. Rinat Starkov, CEO of ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, said “The main steps to restore the operation of equipment have been implemented, and the process must be fully…
Ukrainian ferroalloy plants have asked the US Department of Commerce to revise the 163% antidumping duty on import of ferromanganese silicon from Ukraine.According to a report of the UkrFA, Ukrainian association of ferroalloy producers, and other electrometallurgical products, along with the association, Nikopol, Stakhanov and Zaporozhye ferroalloy plants signed the address. (Ukrainian Journal)Much more about…
Interpipe Niko Tube successfully passed the planned supervision audit of the Environmental Management System functioning at the enterprise and its accordance to the ISO 14001-2004 standard demands.During the course of the audit independent experts of the Bureau Veritas Certification Ukraine, LLC learned the documentation that regulate the activity of enterprise in ecological sphere and checked…
It is reported that in the first nine months of the current year the Ukrainian flat steel producer Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works saw its crude steel production rise by 30.3% YoY to about 4.05 million tons as compared to the same period last year.In addition, in January to September Ilyich finished steel product…
Ukrainian Journal quoted Mr. Ian Christmas, director general of the World Steel Association, saying the Ukrainian metals and mining sector had serious problems due to its excessive metal exporting, reaching 75% of output.He said that “The largest steel producers in the CIS are Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. There is a large difference with what is…
Most of Ukraine’s largest steel mills boosted finished roll production in January to September. ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, the country biggest steel mill, said it raised finished roll production tentatively by 23.3% YoY to 3.973 million tons.Azovstal increased roll output by 31.8% YoY to 3.844 million tons and the Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works raised…
It is reported that in January to August Ukraine increased its imports of direct reduced iron and hot briquetted iron by 2.7 times compared to the same period last year to 215,600 tons.In August the country’s DRI/HBI imports went up 65.33 times to 19,600 tons from just 300 tons in July. In June Ukraine did…
According to preliminary data, in the first nine months of the current year Ukraine finished product output was up by 10.4% YoY to 21.54 million tons and crude steel output – up by 11% YoY to 24.1 million tons.In January to September Ukraine’s pig iron output was up by 8.2% YoY to about 20.3 million…
It is reported that Ukrainian steel mills increased their flats exports by 17.9% MoM in August to reach 467,400 tons. Hot-rolled coil exports jumped by 25.8% MoM to 381,300 tons, cold-rolled products’ exports had a reverse downside trend of 26.6% MoM to 55,900 tons and other hot-rolled flats exports soared by 74.7% MoM to 30,300…
In August Ukraine’s ferrous scrap exports saw a 109% increase MoM and a 1% YoY growth to 69,400 tons. The value of scrap export sales in August was up by 94% compared to July increasing to $21.46 million. In January to August Ukraine scrap exports increased by 18.7% YoY to 499,070 tons valued at $162.32…