Interfax quoted the Dnipropetrovsk based Metallurgprom association said, Ukraine steel industry boosted finished roll output 17% YoY in January to June to 14.53 million tons.Crude steel production jumped 18% to 16.34 million tons and pig iron grew 16% to 13.858 million tons.The country produced 775,000 tons of steel pipes, up by 5% YoY. Ukrainian coke…
DetailsSteel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has passed the accreditation of the international Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. The status of Approved Employer demonstrates that the Company educational system and specifically the development of personnel in the financial department are in line with leading international practices.Mr. Oleksandr Cherniavskyi, CFO at Interpipe, said “The status…
DetailsUKRAINE&RUSSIA: STEEL-MAKING PIG IRONUKRAINE&RUSSIA: FOUNDRY PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROUND BILLETS UKRAINE&RUSSIA: SQUARE BILLETS UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROLLED WIRE Month Russian market, $/t, $1/RUR31.38* Ukrainian market, $/t without VAT, $1/UAH 5.33* min max min max April 474.82 602.29 553.47 863.04 May 557.68 712.24 962.48 1039.21 Month Export, Ukraine, $/t, FOB Black sea ports Export, Russia, $/t, FOB Black…
DetailsIt is reported that in May this year Ukrainian ferrous scrap export was down by 8% MoM to 113,770 tons which however was up by 92.7% YoY. Meanwhile, the value of scrap export sales in May was down by 4.1% MoM declining to $39.99 million. In January to May this year, Ukrainian scrap exports increased…
DetailsIt is reported that in May 2010 Ukrainian reduced pig iron export by 78.2% MoM in comparison with April to 39630 tons.Incomes from pig iron export dropped by 70.1% to $20.47 million. The major buyer of Ukrainian pig iron is Italy, which share in total pig iron export from Ukraine makes 16140 tons or 40.7%In…
DetailsAccording to the data for the first five months of 2010, Ukrainian exports of steel pipes decreased by 17.4% YoY to 449,080 tons while its semi-finished steel product exports dropped by 6.4% YoY to about 4.786 million tons.In January to May this year, the country exports of flat-rolled steel increased by 23.1% YoY to 2.893…
DetailsIt is reported that Zaporizhstal has pulled down its export offers for hot-rolled coils of July production by $100 per ton in comparison with the recent month. July production material is offered at $550-560 per ton.Traders said the manufacturer had no other choice. Other Ukrainian producers are not ready to announce the prices. Ilyich Steel…
DetailsIt is reported that in January to May 2010 Ukrainian steelmaking companies increased export in comparison with the same period of the previous year by 10.8% to 10.238 million tons.However, May steel exports dropped in comparison with April by 3.6% to 2.244 million tons.During five months semi-finished steel products export decreased by 6.4% to 4.787…
DetailsIt is reported that Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works, one of the three largest steel mills in Ukraine, plans to increase its statutory fund by 3.7 times to UAH 3.093 billion.The increase of the company statutory fund was put on the agenda of a general meeting of the company’s shareholders scheduled for July 1st.According…
DetailsUkrainian analysts said a likely combination between the Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works and the Metinvest conglomerate would create one of the world’s top 20 steel firms.Mr. Andrei Gerus, head of consulting at Concorde Capital, says Metinvest is currently the world’s 30th biggest steel producer. It is also the world’s seventh biggest iron ore…
DetailsAccording 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…
DetailsIt is reported that starting from February this year, Ukrainian steel output steadily increased on a MoM basis however in May the country saw its crude steel output decrease by 4.4% MoM to 2.84 million tons.Seven largest Ukrainian steel producers production details:ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih: finished steel output – up by 25.5% YoY to 2.224 million…
DetailsAccording to the information issued by the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy, up to June 1st 2010, Ukraine utilized 29.56% of its annual quota for rebar exports to Russia and 97.5% of its yearly quota for cold-rolled steel exports to the same destination, supplying a total of 118,253 tons and 204,745 tons respectively.Accordingly, in May this…
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