In January-March major pipe companies of Ukraine produced 337.1 thousand tons of ferrous metals pipes, down by 15.4% YoY. In March pipe output was on the level of 135.7 thousand tons, up by 17.5% MoM. Khartsyzsk Pipe Works has dramatically decreased its pipe output from 47.5 thousand tons in the first quarter of 2013 to…
DetailsIn March the major Ukrainian ferroalloys manufacturer – Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NZF) – produced 3.3 thousand tons of ferromanganese, down by 34%, or 1.7 thousand tons, MoM. At the same time NZF decreased its silicomanganese output by 0.8%, or 0.3 thousand tons, to 39.2 thousand tons. In January-March NZF produced 11.5 thousand tons of ferromanganese,…
DetailsIn March companies decreased ferroalloys output by 3.1%, or 2.8 thousand tons, to 87.2 thousand tons MoM. According to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers, in January-March companies increased ferroalloys output by 42.2%, or by 77.2 thousand tons, to 260.2 thousand tons, YoY. In February Ukrainian companies increased ferroalloys output by 8.4%, or by 7…
DetailsIn 2014 Donetskkoks plans to decrease coke output by 2.83%, to 356.8 thousand tons, YoY. The works intends to earn 615.74 million UAH (without VAT) selling its 6% moisture coke. Blast furnace coke sales are expected on the level of 314.9 thousand tons. Due to decrease in by-product chemistry products demand, the forecast sales decrease…
DetailsIn March ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih produced 492.2 thousand tons of steel, down by 13.04% or 73.8 thousand tons YoY. Rolled metal output decreased by 9.72%, or 48.9 thousand tons, to 454.4 thousand tons, while pig iron manufacture fell by 11.67%, or 57.3 thousand tons, to 433.7 thousand tons, all YoY. The company explained this decrease…
DetailsAzovstal Iron and Steel Works, a part of the Metinvest group of companies, has received a complex order from an India-based company. Azovstal is to produce 10 thousand tons of X70 strips with increased mechanical properties. The difficulty of the order lies in the non-standard size of the rolled metal. According to the buyer’s order,…
DetailsIn January-March transit of ferrous metals in the Ukrainian railroads network increased by 15%, to 900 thousand tons, YoY. In the first quarter of 2013 ferrous metals transit decreased by 22% YoY, the 2013 to 2012 results showed a fall by 34%, to 2.27 million tons. This year increase is stipulated by the 1.9 times…
DetailsMetallurgprom expects Ukrainian steel output in 2014 on the level of 29 million tons. According to Alexander Zrazhevsky, Metallurgprom CEO, the company forecast was around 30 million tons of steel. But taking results of the first quarter into account, the company has a new figure – 28.6 million tons. He said, Ukraine still remains the…
DetailsIn March pig iron manufacture dropped by 13.7%, or by 302 thousand tons, to 2502 thousand tons, MoM.
In February pig iron manufacture totaled 2200 thousand tons, down by 5.9% or 138 thousand tons MoM. (Ukrainian metal)
In March Donetsk region increased all its metal output: pig iron manufacture rose by 22.8%, steel production increased by 17.5%, while rolled metal output rose by 26.2%, MoM.
In January-March metal companies of the Donetsk region produced 3.1 million tons of pig iron, up by 1.7% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2014 EVRAZ – Dniepropetrovsk Iron and Steel Works named after Petrovsky plans to increase steel output by 12.1%, or by 120.2 thousand tons, to 1115.2 thousand tons, YoY. According to the 2014 production plan, the company sets the following goals: coke output – 744.9 thousand tons, pig iron manufacture – 1081.8 thousand tons, steel…
DetailsIn 2014 Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after Dzerzhinsky (Dneprodzerzhinsk) plans to increase steel output by 11.6%, or 340.2 thousand tons, to 3272.7 thousand tons, as compared with 2013.Production plan for 2014 is as follows: 5150.8 thousand tons of sinter against 4658.9 thousand tons in 2013, 3072.4 thousand tons of pig iron (2640 thousand…
DetailsIn January-March Ordzhonikidze and Marganets Mining and Processing Works (OGOK and MGOK respectively), that mine and process manganese ore, increased their total output of manganese concentrate by 11.4%, to 183.3 thousand tons, YoY. OGOK didn’t work in January-February 2013 and 2014, while MGOK was idle in December 2013 and February 2014. In three months MGOK…
DetailsRUSAL has stopped aluminum rolled wire manufacture at the Zaporozhye Aluminum Works (ZALK) due to the absence of demand. RUSAL owns the only aluminum works in Ukraine, where high electricity prices halted aluminum manufacture in 2011. Now the works produces rolled wire. The capacities of the works are 20 thousand tons of aluminum rolled wire…
DetailsIn 2013 Ukraine imported 1687 thousand tons of rolled metal, down by 5.3% YoY, 13 thousand tons of pig iron, down by 61.8%, and 164 thousand tons of ferroalloys, down by 1.2% YoY. In comparison with 2012 the following changes in imports volumes have taken place: Ukraine imported 10.7% less of long rolled products and…
DetailsUkraine’s export share in the total rolled metal output increased from 78.6% in 2012 to 80.5% in 2013. Ukraine exported 23130 thousand tons of rolled metal (including 10871 thousand tons of semi-finished products), 2226 thousand tons of pig iron, 692 thousand tons of ferroalloys. This constituted 103.1% of rolled metal, 113.1% of pig iron and…
DetailsIn January-March ferroalloy companies produced 260 thousand tons of ferroalloys, up by 43% YoY.
In particular, silicomanganese output rose by 32.5%, to 190.5 thousand tons, ferromanganese production went up by 20.6%, to 25.2 thousand tons, and ferrosilicon manufacture increased 2.7 times, to 44.3 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
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DetailsIn January-March Zaporizhstal, a part of the Metinvest group, decreased its gas consumption by 18%, or 13.8 million cubic meters, YoY, from 75.4 million to 61.6 million cubic meters. This allowed the company to save 41.3 million UAH. While gas consumption in the first quarter of the current year decreased, output volumes increased by 5%…
DetailsIn March metal companies consumed 240 million cubic meters of gas, down by 4.4%, or 11 million cubic meters, MoM. Average daily gas consumption by metal companies totaled 7.8 million cubic meters. In February gas consumption by Ukrainian metal companies decreased by 3.4%, or 9 million cubic meters, to 251 million cubic meters, to January…
DetailsExperts forecast steel output on the level of 2.7 million tons in May, that of pig iron at 2.56 million tons, and 2.5 million tons of rolled metal. To ensure the manufacture of such volumes, metal companies will need 630 thousand tons of sinter ore, 1580 thousand tons of concentrate, 520 thousand tons of sinter,…
DetailsIn the first quarter of 2014 UK-based Ferrexpo plc, owner of the Poltava and Yeristovo mining and processing works (PGOK and EGOK respectively), increased pellets output by 10.4%, to 2.8 million tons. In particular, in the first quarter the company increased output of pellets of its own raw materials by 9.2%, to 2.7 million tons,…
DetailsIn 2013 within the program of strengthening its positions on strategic markets, Metinvest Holding increased the range of its metal wares by 30 products, which allowed the company to expand the range of its customers and create additional sales opportunities. This resulted in sales increase by 37% on the markets of Middle East and Northern…
DetailsIn January-February Ukrainian ferroalloy companies increased output by 51.7%, to 172.2 thousand tons, YoY. In particular, silicomanganese production increased by 34.4%, to 125.8 thousand tons, that of ferromanganese – by 27.2%, to 17.3 thousand tons, while ferrosilicone (45%) output rose 4.6 times, to 29.1 thousand tons. Ukrainian mining-metallurgical companies increased manganese concentrate output by 42.9%,…
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