In August Ukrainian metal companies might decrease steel and rolled metal output by 4.5% and 5.3% MoM, to 2.1 million and 1.8 million tons respectively. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, pig iron output will remain on July levels – 2.1 million tons. In January-June steel output went up by 10% YoY, to 12.41 million tons, that of…
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Supervisory board of Zakarpatvtormet has dismissed Alexander Alyaniy from the office of the chairman and general director. He also occupied the same office in Ternopolvtormet. Yuri Osipenko has been appointed instead. Osipenko used to work in Azovstal and Metinvest. Ternopolvtormet appointed Alyaniy in July 2015. Metalinvest Ltd owns 90.5459% of Ternopolvtormet and 98.0236% of Zakarpatvtormet.…
DetailsIn January-June Ukrainian metal companies consumed 860 million cubic meters of gas, down by 20% YoY. In June gas consumption totaled 125 million cubic meters, down by 12% MoM, or by 17 million cubic meters. In H1 daily average gas consumption was on the level of 4.7 million cubic meters, as opposed to 6 million…
DetailsSeverstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, announced its operational results for Q2 & H1 2016. Hot metal output decreased by 6% QoQ to 2.21 million tons (2.35 million tons in Q1) mainly impacted by short-term maintenance of BF No. 5 at Cherepovets Steel Mill (CherMK) during the quarter.…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 328 471 344 354 May 337 622 431 518 * – 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…
DetailsThe first lawsuits against Interpipe NMTZ, Niko Tube and NTZ Alfa-Bank filed in August and September 2015. The bank wanted $5.7 million according to loan agreements of 2013 and $9 million and 41 million euro according to loan agreements of 2012. Interpipe had to return the debt by March 2015. But didn’t manage to. “Last…
DetailsMetinvest has to spend over $300 million to make its mining and processing works correspond to the European standards. “Some pollutions at our companies are already within the European norms, so we can only welcome the implementation of the European environmental standards in Ukraine. But it’s a long way, we have just passed a small…
DetailsEcology and natural resources minister of Ukraine Ostap Semerak has visited Zaporizhstal and has been shown the modernization processes: sintering machine No. 5 gas-purifying system construction, as well as the already working gas-purifiers at sintering machines No. 1-4; sand bed exsufflation system of the blast furnace No. 4, as well as the hydrochloric acid digestion…
DetailsIn January-June Ukraine imported $24.91 million worth of copper and copper wares, up by 14.9% YoY. According to the State Fiscal Service, copper exports dropped by 50.8% YoY, to $35.14 million. In June Ukraine imported $4.88 million worth of copper wares, while exports reached $5.8 million. Nickel imports in H1 decreased by 12.9% YoY, to…
DetailsOn July 10, Krasnolimanskaya yielded 1 millionth ton of coal since the year start.
“This is the 120-th million of coal since the mine started working”, said the company director Alexander Dubovik. (Ukrainian metal)
Month Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 121 148 140 145 May 121 148 141 146 * – 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…
DetailsDniepropetrovsk Iron and Steel Works named after Komintern (Kominmet) has dismissed Andrei Mouchkin from the office of the deputy chairman. According to the company station, Mouchkin resigned from his position. He has been in the office since April 22, 2015. None has been appointed in his place as yet. In 2015 Kominmet received 197.52 million…
DetailsZaporizhstal has turned on the gas-purifying equipment at its sintering machine No. 5. “We have put the gas-purifier at SM5 in time, as promised and immediately started constructing the last one – No. 6. We have to build it in three months and complete the ecological modernization of the sinter factory”, said the company CEO…
DetailsOn July 7, Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works put into operation its blast furnace No. 5, and is now operating two BFs. According to a company representative, the works produces some 2.5 thousand tons of pig iron daily. BF3 was put into operation on July 3. In January-June AMK produced 694 thousand tons of rolled…
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In January-June Electrostal produced 161726.99 tons of continuous-cast billets, down by 28.3% YoY. According to the company statement, in June it produced 38721.26 tons of billets, down from 41532.71 tons in May. Most of the products the company exports. In particular, in June it exported 38699.79 tons of billets. In January and most of February…
DetailsUkrzaliznytsia has ordered 25.43 thousand tons of railroad construction materials valued at 626.05 million UAH from Metinvest-SMC.
The Ukrainian Railways will buy open sections, encased piles as well as railroad and tramways construction elements of steel. All the products must be supplied this year. The agreement was concluded on June 30. (Ukrainian metal)
Month Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 323 399 357 362 May 355 487 440 507 * – 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…
DetailsAccording to the Ilyichevsk trade seaport, as of July 11 there were 4 vessels under loading/unloading at its quays. Terminal 1 saw unloading of slabs for further loading onto vessels. This is the new cargo. The port also stocks sheet, rolls and wire rod. In July-August it plans to process 26.26 thousand tons of Metinvest-Shipping…
DetailsIn January-June Ukraine exported 172.4 thousand tons of titanium-containing ore and concentrate valued at $35.26 million, up by 51.6% and by 27.2% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, most products went to Russia (42.9%), USA (16.03%) and the Czech Republic (14.82%). In January-June Ukraine imported 2 tons of titanium-containing ore and concentrate from…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 47 54 66 70 May 47 53 79 83 * – 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…
DetailsAfter the sintering factory at the Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works is modernized, the company will meet all the European environmental norms. Over 5 years the works will invest 2.5 billion UAH into the project that started in 2015. “After that dust pollution will decrease by 90%, or by 12.5 thousand tons. Sulfur pollution…
DetailsIn January-June Ukraine imported 674.67 thousand tons of nickel ore and concentrate valued at $35.54 million, down by 11.2% and by 24.3% YoY respectively. All the products came from Guatemala. In H1 Ukraine exported 303 tons of nickel ore valued at $60 thousand. Last year it didn’t export nickel ore. Most exports went to Hong…
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The Ministry of energy and coal industry of Ukraine is preparing a decree on the coal market to make the vertically integrated companies sell part of their coal at exchanges. “We want them to sell at least 30%”, said the energy minister Igor Nasalyk. According to him the Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman supports this idea.…
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