Donetskstal has decided to stop operations at Donetsk Iron and Steel Works because of problems with logistics in the Antiterrorist operation zone. “The blast furnaces have been shut down until the railroad starts working again”, said Metallurgprom president Alexander Kalenkov. In May DMZ produced 106 thousand tons of pig iron – the largest volume since…
DetailsIn May Zaporozhogneupor increased output by 4% YoY. “Chamotte wares output increased by 19%, that of chamotte-kiln wares – by 32%, of mixes – by 27%, all YoY. Refractory concretes and masses output grew 3 times YoY”, said the company in its statement. All in all in May the company produced 4185 tons of chamotte…
DetailsIn May industrial prices increased by 5.3% MoM and by 13.9% YoY in January-May.
According to the State Statistics Service, mining prices went up by 19.7 MoM, processing – by 4%, including by 13.4% in metal. Coke prices in May increased by 1.6% MoM. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-May Ukraine exported $2713.67 million worth of ferrous scrap metal, down by 25.5% YoY. According to the State Fiscal Service, ferrous metals accounted for 19.81% of all export revenues, down from 23.53% in January-May 2015. In May Ukraine exported $641.37 million worth of scrap. At the same time Ukraine imported $268.65 million worth of…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.3334* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.1865* min max min max March 313 533 302 376 April 327 560 290 376 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 30.04.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsThe mass media have informed that the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic has made the DTEK into its Regional energy company and fired all the employees. According to the DTEK communications department, all group companies are working under the management of DTEK and are registered on Ukrainian territory. In 2014 all the staff was evacuated to…
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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is deciding on appointing Stanislav Tolchin the deputy minister of energy and coal industry. “The matter hasn’t been settled yet. The head of the state has to initiate this appointment. At the same time the energy minister stands against it”, said a source in the government. Tolchin was a…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.3334* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.1865* min max min max March 280 448 252 274 April 336 483 274 354 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 30.04.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih asked private transportation companies to correct their city routes according to the shifts at the company. The management wants the transporters to get their employees to the works and back at certain hours. Private companies are against this, as they will need more gasoline daily if they are to drive to the…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.3334* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.1865* min max min max March 295 344 273 282 April 332 410 282 356 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 30.04.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsIn May Ukrainian scrap procurers exported 112.57 thousand tons of scrap, the maximum amount since July 2015 despite the decree of the District Administrative Court of Kiev that prohibited scrap exports after March 16. Because the decree was ignored, scrap export increased by 11% YoY. In April Ukraine exported 82.47 thousand tons of scrap, with…
DetailsIn April Ukraine produced 90.2 thousand tons of ferroalloys, up by 4.9% MoM, or by 4,2 thousand tons.
According to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers, in January-April ferroalloy output decreased by 1.8% YoY, or by 5.9 thousand tons, to 318.9 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In May Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works produced 918 thousand tons of concentrate, down by 5.8% YoY. According to the company statement, sinter output dropped by 16%, to 736.24 thousand tons. The company explains sinter output drop with the change in market situation. In January-May UGOK produced 4521.8 thousand tons of concentrate, down by 4%…
DetailsIn January-May Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works produced 880 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 56% YoY. According to a company representative, steel smelting increased by 37.8%, to 879 thousand tons, and pig iron output grew by 52.5%, to 839 thousand tons, all YoY. In May the works produced 195 thousand tons of rolled…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR64.3334* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.1865* min max min max March 29 37 31 33 April 33 42 33 36 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 30.04.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the…
DetailsIn January-May Azovstal Iron and Steel Works produced 1.32 million tons of rolled metal, up by 2% YoY. According to the company statement, steel smelting increased by 4.8%, to 1.47 million tons, that of pig iron – by 4.6%, to 1.26 million tons, all YoY. Because of the closing down of sinter factory, the works…
DetailsSupervisory board of Krasnogorovka Refractory Works has reelected Revaz Djodjua general director for 1 year. According to the company statement, in 2014 it received 1.95 million UAH of losses, having decreased its net income by 59.91% YoY, or by 131.49 million UAH, to 87.99 million UAH. Financial results for 2015 have not been disclosed. (Ukrainian…
DetailsDonetsk Iron and Steel Works can soon stop its operation completely. Because of the railway strike the works can’t get pellets and supply pig iron.
“We have pellets stocks for a couple of days”, said a source at the works and added that one of the blast furnaces had been stopped. (Ukrainian metal)
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The Arbitrary court of Moscow has denied Vadim Varshavsky, the ex-owner of Estar, his claim to Mechel to hand over Daveze Limited shares, which owns Donetsk Electrometallurgical Plant. Estar bought DEMZ and some other assets in 2009 from Istil Group for $1 billion. Alfa-Bank financed the deal, and when Estar wasn’t able to clear its…
DetailsSeveral iron and steel works, situated on the Ukraine-uncontrolled territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, have been stopped because of the Donetsk railway strike. A week ago railroaders went on a strike demanding their salaries to be paid. Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works has temporarily closed-down all of its blast furnaces. Yenakievo Iron and Steel…
DetailsFor the past several years Metinvest invested over 45 billion UAH into development of its companies. “We have completely modernized the Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works, we’ve implemented cyclic-and-continuous technology at all our GOKs. We put into operation PCI machines at Ilyich. We’ve modernized Azovstal continuous cast machines”, said the group CEO Yuri Ryzhenkov. Metinvest…
DetailsIn April Nikopol Ferrolloy Plant produced 65.6 thousand tons of silicomanganese, up by 18% MoM, or by 10 thousand tons. At the same time ferromanganese output dropped by 95.3% MoM, or by 6.1 thousand tons, to 0.3 thousand tons. In January-April NZF produced 221.8 thousand tons of silicomanganese, up by 2.7% YoY, or by 5.9…
DetailsIn January-May Ukraine imported $571.02 million worth of coal and anthracite, with $102.86 million in May. According to the State Fiscal Service, Russia supplied $363.8 million worth of coal, US – $83.83 million, Australia – $38.08 million, and all other countries – $85.3 million. All in all in 5 months Ukraine imported 6583.31 thousand tons…
DetailsWolbert Company, Plamsted and Kamset Holdings (all from Cyprus) intend to buy 19.3% of Nikopol South Pipe Works shares each.
According to the company statement, Wolbert Company will buy 72716543 shares, Plamsted will purchase 72716544 shares, and Kamset Holdings plans to buy 72716544 shares of NPTZ. (Ukrainian metal)