According to Mr. Ruslan Mazhinsky, marketing director of the trading and distribution company Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in 2010 Ukrainian consumption of rolled steel products is expected to increase by 15-16% YoY to about 5.7 million tons.Mr. Mazhinsky said, in the first half of 2010 the Ukrainian domestic market was seeing demand growth mainly…
DetailsDonetskstal (DMZ) stops the second of its two blast furnaces because of price fall at steel markets and price growth at raw materials market.Today the furnace is in the stopping stage reported recently by the deputy head of press department Ms. Julia Revyakina. According to her words, the furnace is stopped for a period around…
DetailsLocal newspaper Delo has reported citing Mr. Christophe Cornier, member of ArcelorMittal group management board, as saying ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to implement a project for processing oxidized ores.Mr. Cornier said “We produce 8 million tons of sinter per year and, with the introduction of oxidized ore processing technology, the production will double.”The management of…
DetailsAccording to the data released by metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company (UGMK), in the first five months of 2010 Ukraine imports of rolled steel products increased by 122.7% YoY amounting to about 502,900 tons. In May Ukraine increased its imports of rolled steel products by 16.4% compared to April and by 74%…
DetailsIt is reported that Ukraine’s national energy company Naftogaz has started to limit gas supplies to the most indebted domestic steel producers, i. e. to the Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works and Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), a subsidiary of the Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD),…
DetailsAccording to the data issued by the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in Q1 2010 Ukrainian steelmakers, members of Metallurgprom, invested a total of UAH 620.8 million in the expansion of their production facilities, down by 39.4% YoY compared to Q1 2009. Amount, million UAH Change, % Donetsk region 267.9 -49.1 Mariupol Ilyich Iron…
DetailsIt is reported that the Donetsk Electrometallurgical Plant, the mini-mill previously known as ISTIL, is resuming its investment projects and plans in 2010 to invest UAH 15 million in production upgrades.Accordingly, DEMZ has placed a UAH 3.5 million order with equipment producer Vesuvius for the supply of calibrated nozzle changers, the installation of which will…
DetailsAccording to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in May this year Ukraine’s average daily pig iron output decreased by 4,900 tons compared to April to 77,400 tons as the Ukrainian steel producers cut their outputs due to weak demand and the problems experienced by some local steelmakers in securing iron ore supplies.Metallurgprom said…
DetailsIt is reported that the steelmaking subsidiaries of the Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass, namely Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works and Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), have sharply decreased their steel outputs in late May to early June.According to Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, when its operations…
DetailsYenakievo Iron and Steel Works, a part of Metinvest Group, in May produced 183,800 tons of cast iron and 217,200 tons of steel. Rolled product shipments comprised 208,800 tons. Product May 2010, th. t April 2010, th. t Change, % Cast iron 183.8 185 -0.6 Steel (smelting) 217.2 216.4 0.4 Rolled product 208.8 208.3 0.2…
DetailsLeading steel pipe and railway wheels maker Interpipe has strengthened its position in the energy market in the Middle East with pre-qualifications from the region’s leading oil and gas companies.In the first half of 2010 Interpipe gained pre-qualification from the Ministry of Oil and Gas of the Sultanate of Oman, the Abu Dhabi Company for…
DetailsIt is reported that Ukraine increased production of steel tubes in January to May 2010 by 9% YoY in comparison with the same period of the previous year to 639,000 tons.Tube plants increased output by 6.7% to 542400 tons, steel works increased by 26.5% to 97000 tons.Nizhnedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant increased production of tubes by…
DetailsThe Ukrainian mining and steel producing company Metinvest Holding has announced that it plans to increase its production of high-quality merchant iron ore concentrate with Fe content of over 67% to up to 6.8 million tons through the construction of a second magnetic and flotation metal content upgrading facility at its iron ore subsidiary Ingulets…
DetailsIt is reported that during the third week of May Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), was forced to halt two of its blast furnaces, i. E. BF No 3 and BF No 4 with a total capacity of 144,000 tons of pig iron per month…
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