In January-June metal companies exported $3346.98 million worth of ferrous metals, down by 22.1% YoY. According to the customs statistics of the State Fiscal Service, ferrous metals accounted for 20.13% of the total export revenues down from 23.14% in January-June 2015. In June Ukraine exported $634.66 million worth of ferrous metals. Imports in H1 2016…
DetailsThe Ministry of economical development and trade denies the information about granting licenses to export anthracite coal to a company registered in the Lugansk People’s Republic. “Some mass media have published information that Ukraine exports anthracite coal from uncontrolled territories with the consent of the ministry. This information is contrary to the facts”, said the…
DetailsIn June Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works produced 884.2 thousand tons of concentrate, down by 10.6% YoY. According to the company statement, sinter output in June went up by 15.4% YoY, to 165.6 thousand tons. In January-June UGOK produced 5406 thousand tons of concentrate and 922 thousand tons of sinter, down by 5.3% and up…
DetailsIn September Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works will start an overhaul of its converter No. 2. In particular, it will include the modernization of the gas-purifying system. The overhaul will cost over 230 million UAH. The project is a part of the Mariupol environmental program for 2012-2020. It was presented in April. As the…
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In May Evraz Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works produced 98.2 thousand tons of pig iron and 97 thousand tons of steel. The management also sees the prospects of increasing output YoY, but refuses to give a certain number. The steel-smelting rise will increase the Evraz DMZ demand in scrap. “Our inner scrap procurement allows us…
DetailsIn January-June Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works produced 1.02 million tons of rolled metal, down by 15.6% YoY. According to a company representative, steel smelting dropped by 13.8%, to 1.02 million tons, while pig iron output decreased by 8.1%, to 1.04 million tons, all YoY. In June DMK produced 132 thousand tons of rolled metal,…
DetailsIn 2015 ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih fired several dozens of employees, summoned to serve in the army. According to the Ukrainian legislation, such conscripts retain their work place and receive average monthly salary. And they cannot be fired according to the Labor Codex. Some of the conscripts filed a suitcase as the company refused to employ…
DetailsMonth Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* Export, Ukraine, $/t, FOB Black sea ports Export, Russia, $/t, FOB Black sea ports min max min max min max April 206 278 375 425 375 425 May 206 370 340 365 340 370 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16…
DetailsNSMMZ (Nizhniye Sergi), a key company in NLMK group’s long products division which operates from three production sites in Sverdlovsk region in the Urals, has been renamed NLMK Ural. The company adopted a new charter and registered the change of name with the Inspectorate of the Tax Service of Russia #30 for Sverdlovsk region. The…
DetailsJune proved to be extremely unlucky for Ukrainian metal companies mostly because of the railroad strike. Steel smelting dropped by 19% MoM, to 1.87 million tons, pig iron output decreased by 20.5% MoM, to 1.79 million tons. Average daily steel output in June totaled 62.4 thousand tons as opposed to 73.2 thousand tons in May.…
DetailsIn January-May Ukraine sold 660.8 billion UAH worth of industrial products (588.2 billion UAH in January-May 2015), including 177.2 billion UAH exported (174.5 billion UAH). According to the State Statistics Committee, metal and metal wares accounted for 17% of the total volume, while mining products totaled 12.1%. In May mining sales went up by 15.7%…
DetailsDTEK, which produces some 70% of electricity in Ukraine, has received the first offers from power-generating coal suppliers from SAR and Australia, who can sell it at 1.7-2.15 thousand UAH ($68.5-86.6) per ton with 5.7 thousand kcal quality. According to the company commercial director John Woodham, deliveries from the temporarily uncontrolled territories (the so-called Donetsk…
DetailsIn January-June Ferrexpo produced 5.72 million tons of iron ore pellets, down by 1.6% YoY. According to the company statement, 65% Fe content pellets output went up by 5.9% YoY, to 5.35 million tons, that of 62% Fe content fell by 51.9% YoY, to 363.9 thousand tons. Ferrexpo own ore pellets output totaled 5.7 million…
DetailsIn January-June Ukrainian companies mined 18975.1 thousand tons of coal, down by 2.6% YoY, or by 496.6 thousand tons. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal mining went up by 7.3% YoY, or by 4357.1 thousand tons, while that of power-generating coal dropped by 5.1% YoY, or by 793.6 thousand tons,…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 318 545 291 340 May 451 614 368 468 * – 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…
DetailsDTEK draws attention to the highly unstable deliveries of A-grade coal from the terrorist-occupied regions of Donbass.
“The delivery volume is extremely low”, said the DTEK Energo communications department director Irina Milyutina.
According to DTEK, daily deliveries total 7-10 tons. (Ukrainian metal)
NLMK Group has started hot testing two high-pressure grinding rollers at section 4 of Stoilensky’s beneficiation plant. The new process will now cover 50% of Stoilensky’s grinding capacity. High pressure grinding roller (HPGR) technology is new to the Russian market. Stoilensky was the first to commission HPGR units. These will enable a 10% increase in…
DetailsFor the past few weeks the Black Sea pig iron price fall has been lower than in May. Metal companies try to shift prices to August output. Metinvest kept its prices on the level of $250 per ton CFR Turkey and Italy. Its latest sales to Turkey were at $245-250 per ton, and to Italy…
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Zaporizhstal has concluded an agreement with Danieli Corus for the delivery of the conoless feeder within the blast furnace No. 3 overhaul. According to the company statement, the price of the contract is 165 million UAH. The new equipment will increase the furnace output. The feeder will be delivered in November. The reconstruction will also…
DetailsIn January-June Donetsk Iron and Steel Works produced 350 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 87.2% YoY. In June the company produced 35 thousand tons of pig iron, down from 106 thousand tons in May. Open-hearth manufacture was shut down in 2012, and the steel smelting complex is under construction, so the works doesn’t…
DetailsIn 2016 metal consumption in Ukraine will grow by 2.6% YoY, or by 3358 million tons, according to Metinvest-SMC. “We believe the rise will continue next year as well. At least all the companies involved should demonstrate better results”, said the company CEO Dmitry Lippa. He also noted the increase in the mining industry by…
DetailsIn January-May Poltava Mining and Processing Works exported 4.99 million tons of iron ore pellets. According to Ukrpromvneshexpertisa, pellets were exported to Europe and the Near East, as well as Japan, China and Korea. At the same time Central GOK exported 870 thousand tons of pellets. In January-May Poltava GOK produced 4.82 million tons of…
DetailsVladimir Potanin, president of Norilsk Nickel, came to Norilsk. He visited various production sites, where the company carries out its strategic projects, and held business meetings with the Polar Division management to discuss reconfiguration of production, implementation of capacity increase programs, and improvement of the environmental situation in Norilsk industrial region. According to Norilsk Nickel…
DetailsMonth Russian market, $/t, EXW, without VAT, $1/RUR66.0825* Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* min max min max April 18 20 22 26 May 17 20 26 30 * – 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…
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