The RBC Ukraine information agency reported that in the first nine months of this year Ukraine’s steel product exports to Egypt declined by 34.5% YoY from 1.139 million tons to 746,000 tons, valued at $361 million, down by 7.2% YoY.Specifically, during the period in question, Ukraine’s exports to Egypt of semi-efinished steel products went down…
DetailsAccording to the data issued by the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in January to September Ukrainian steelmakers, which are members of Metallurgprom, invested a total of UAH 2.757 billion in the upgrading of their production facilities, down by 12.2% YoY. January-September 2010 Change Donetsk region 1.376 billion UAH -18.2% Mariupol Ilyich Iron and…
DetailsAccording to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers, in January to October Ukraine increased its ferroalloys production by 47% YoY to 1.19 million tons.During the first 10 months of this year, Ukraine’s silicomanganese output increased by 34% to 781,900 tons, its ferromanganese production went up 2.4 times to 236,600 tons, its ferrosilicon output increased by…
DetailsAccording to Ukraine’s State Statistics Committee, as of October 1st, foreign direct investments in the country manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products amounted to $5.656 billion accounting for 13.3% of total foreign investment in Ukraine.In particular, FDI from Cyprus amounted to $583 million, FDI from Germany totaled $4.6 billion, from the Netherlands reached…
DetailsAccording to Mr. Amir Aisautov, head of mining and metallurgical development at the parent company System Capital Management, Metinvest will more than double steel output to 15-16 million tons next year after it has merged with the Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works.He said that Metinvest aims to be the national mining and metals champion…
DetailsAccording to the data released by the metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in the first ten months of 2010 Ukraine’s imports of rolled steel products increased by 98.7% YoY amounting to about 1.18 million tons. In October Ukraine’s imports of rolled steel products saw a 2.5% decrease compared to September and a…
DetailsA program for mastering production of steel channels by European norms is completed at the shop No. 2, Evraz Petrovsky Steel, Dnepropetrovsk.Trial lots of UPE 80, UPE 100, UPE 120 and UPE 140 in accordance with DIN 1026-2 were produced in quantity of around 250 tons each.Mr. Evgeny Kotliagin, CEO of Evraz Petrovsky Steel, informed…
DetailsIt is reported that the Russian government extends and increases the antidumping duties for the Ukrainian pipe makers, that otherwise would have expired in January 2011. Interpipe products can enjoy the preferential 19.4% duty on hot deformed and gas oil pipe exports to Russia.According to a Millennium Capital analyst “The news is negative for the…
DetailsAccording to Mr. Sergei Belenky, Ukraine’s Senior Deputy Minister of Industrial Policy, in 2010 Ukraine is expected to produce 27.2 million tons of pig iron, 32.2 million tons of crude steel and 30.2 million tons of finished steel products.He said that currently the capacity utilization in Ukraine’s steel production stands at 71.4%, while average daily…
DetailsIt is reported that Donetsk Electrometallurgical Plant (DEMZ) in January to October increased its steel smelting volume by 45% YoY to 626,600 tons.According to the company, since April it has been operating at stable levels, with its steel output amounting to an average of 87,200 tons per month, which corresponds to its designed capacity. In…
DetailsAccording to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in October Ukraine’s average daily pig iron output continued its positive trend, which started in August, registering an increase of about 1%, or 700 tons, compared to September to 75,500 tons. In the first ten days of November the country’s average daily pig iron output increased…
DetailsNRCU cites Mr. Serhiy Bilenky, Deputy Industrial Policy Minister, as saying that Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises may face problems with the export of steel products after 2015 due to a gradual reduction in supplies to Turkey.Mr. Bilenky said “We are currently supplying a significant part of steel products to Turkey. Turkey has been actively developing its…
DetailsIt is reported that Donetskstal Metallurgical Plant increased the open-hearth steel production by 22.2%, or by 8,000 tons, to 44,000 tons in October compared to September. This was reported by the spokesman in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. In October Donetskstal reduced pig iron production by 8.1%, or 9000 tons, to 102,000 tons. Donetskstal reduced…
DetailsIt is reported that in October the Ukrainian steel industry increased its natural gas consumption by 50 million cubic meters MoM – to 456 million cubic meters with its average daily consumption of natural gas during the month totaling 14.7 million cubic meters, up from 13.5 million cubic meters in September.According to the Ukrainian association…
DetailsAccording to preliminary data, in January to October ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, a Ukraine-based subsidiary of the world largest integrated metals and mining company ArcelorMittal, saw its crude steel production increase by 26.8% YoY to 5.1 million tons.During the first ten months of the year ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih produced: 4.453 million tons of finished steel, up…
DetailsIt is reported that in January to September Ukraine’s imports of ferroalloys decreased by 20.7% YoY to 76,070 tons, while its exports went up by 65.4% YoY to 826,270 tons.In September Ukraine’s ferroalloy imports decreased by 46.6% MoM and by 45.4% YoY to 4,700 tons. Specifically, in September Ukraine’s ferrosilicomanganese imports decreased by 53.2% MoM…
DetailsIt is reported that in September Ukraine’s pig iron exports increased by 27% MoM and by 49.5% YoY to 151,820 tons. 31% of Ukraine’s pig iron exports in September were delivered to Turkey and 28% were shipped to the US. The value of Ukraine’s pig iron export sales in September was up by 25.6% MoM…
DetailsIt is reported that in September Ukraine’s ferrous scrap exports were up by 58% MoM and down by 83.4% YoY to 29,220 tonnes. The value of scrap export sales in September was down by 57.4% MoM at $9.14 million. In January to September this year, Ukraine scrap exports decreased by 11.5% YoY to 528,260 tons…
DetailsIt is reported that in the first ten months of the current year, the Ukrainian flat steel producer Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works saw its crude steel production rise by 32.6% YoY to 4.585 million tons.In addition, in January to October Ilyich finished steel product output went up by 28.6% YoY to about 3.2…
DetailsAccording to the information issued by the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy, from October 1 to November 1 Russia and other countries utilized 80.35% of the new annual quota, imposed by Ukraine for seamless steel casing and tubing imports with outside diameter up to 406.4 mm, supplying a total of around 12,819 tons. The total quota…
DetailsIt is reported that Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works and Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), the steelmaking subsidiaries of the Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass, have issued their preliminary production results for the first ten months of the current year.Accordingly, in January to October Alchevsk Iron and Steel…
DetailsIt is reported that in September Ukraine semi-finished steel product exports increased by 29.1% MoM compared to August and by 4.2% YoY to 942,290 tons valued at $453.3 million, up by 29.8% MoM.Ukraine’s main semi-finished steel product export destinations in September were Italy, Lebanon, Turkey, Thailand, South Korea and Egypt.In January to September Ukraine’s semi-finished…
DetailsIt is reported that in October the Ukrainian pipe making industry demonstrated a 9.6% MoM decline rate. The underperformers were Khartszysk Pipe Works, Lugansk Tube Plant and Interpipe Niko-Tube with 25.0%, 13.6% and 36% MoM drop in output respectively.According to a Millennium Capital analyst “The news is neutral for pipes. Unexpectedly, this month Khartszysk Pipe…
DetailsIt is reported that in January to October Ukrainian steelmaker Zaporizhstal’s finished steel product output increased by 0.5% YoY to 2.297 million tons, while its crude steel production rose by 0.4% YoY to 2.742 million tons.In the first ten months of the year, the works saw a 0.2% YoY drop in its pig iron output…
DetailsIt is reported that in September Ukrainian steel pipe exports decreased by 22.5% MoM and by 25.8% YoY to 98,540 tons valued at about $105.6 million, down by 23% MoM.Specifically, in September Ukraine exported 44,390 tons of seamless pipes, down by 23.3% MoM, of which 28,070 tons were delivered to Russia, 4,290 tons were exported…
DetailsIt is reported that Ukrainian iron ore producers decreased their pellets output by 10.6% MoM maintaining iron ore concentrate production at previous month level. The Central Mining and Processing Works has shown the largest slump in the production of pellets, down by 46% MoM.According to a Millennium Capital analyst “The news is neutral for the…
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