In January-November Ukrainian metal companies decreased ferrous metals export revenues by 8.1%, to $13096.844 million, YoY. According to the Customs service statistics, ferrous metals accounted for 22.82% of the whole export revenues, up from 22.57% YoY. In November ferrous metals export revenues reached $1201.686 million, while in October they were on the level of $1151.882…
DetailsIn January 2014 Ukrainian metal companies plan to produce 2.32 million tons of rolled metal, up by 3.98% as compared to November 2013. Pig iron output is expected to increased by 7%, to 2.5 million tons, steel output – by 5.8%, to 2.7 million tons. To meet these figures metal companies will need 610 thousand…
DetailsIn 2013 local rolled metal consumption in Ukraine would decrease by 6%, to 7.8 million tons YoY, according to Vladimir Vlasyuk, CEO of the state enterprise “Ukrpromvneshexpertiza” (UPE). He says, decrease in demand is connected to the increase in output fall in the main steel-consuming sectors – construction (by 16%) and machine-building (by 13%). UPE…
DetailsIn January-November Ukrainian ferroalloy companies decreased output by 18.9%, to 784.3 thousand tons, YoY. In particular, silicomanganese output decreased by 17.1%, to 568.7 thousand tons, ferromanganese production fell by 51.2%, to 73.3 thousand tons, metallic manganese output decreased by 50.4%, to 7.2 thousand tons, while ferrosilicon output increased by 15.6%, to 135.1 thousand tons. The…
DetailsIn January-November deliveries of scrap metal to Ukrainian metal companies decreased by 13%, to 3.95 million tons YoY. That corresponds to 88% of the calculated need. In November metal companies bought 416 thousand tons of scrap metal, up by 9.5% to October levels (92% of the calculated need). Stores of scrap metal in November increased…
DetailsIn January-November Ukrainian metal companies increased iron ore raw materials (IORM) imports by 5%, to 2.55 million tons YoY. In November metal works imported 240 thousand tons of IORM, up by 4.3% compared to October. In eleven months metal companies are supplied with 98% of pellets (from the calculated needs), 97% of agglomerate, 100% of…
DetailsIn 9 days of December Ukrainian metal companies decreased average daily output of rolled metal by 7.4%, to 68.9 thousand tons, compared to November. Average daily pir iron output increased by 2.3%, to 79.7 thousand tons, while steel output rose by 0.6%, to 85.6 thousand tons. As of December the 1st, metal companies operated 29…
DetailsIn January-November metal companies of the Dniepropetrovsk region produced 10.5 million tons of steel (106.6% YoY), almost 9 million tons of iron ore (110.4%), 2.2 million tons of sinter (120%), 51.3 million tons of iron ore concentrate (102.4%), 9.1 million tons of rolled metal (102.5%) and 12 million tons of pellets (103.6%). Pipe industry sees…
DetailsIn January-September Ukrainian metallurgical companies decreased capital investments into technical overhaul and modernization by 27.5%, or 783.2 billion UAH, to 3,695 billion UAH YoY. In 2013 companies mostly invested in construction of new objects and the already going reconstruction and modernization of existing capacities. Vital to the sector are the modernization of furnace manufacture and…
DetailsIn the first 11 months of the current year the crude steel production at ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, the Ukrainian subsidiary of the global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 5.866 million tons, down by 0.05% year on year, as announced by the company. In addition, in the first 11 months of the year ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih saw…
DetailsIn January 2014 Ukraine’s crude steel production is expected to decrease by 1.4% compared to the expected output in December this year to 2.70 million tons. In January 2014 pig iron output in Ukraine will total 2.50 million tons, down by 1.5% compared to the expected December 2013 result, while Ukrainian production of rolled steel…
DetailsThe Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is not going to impose quotas on imports of coking coal in the first quarter of 2014 as Ukrainian coke plants and companies have undertaken to buy a considerable proportion of coking coal from local state mines.Ukraine’s government decided to increase quotas on imports of coking coal in 2013…
DetailsUkrainian iron ore and agglomerate producer Uzhniy GOK (UGOK) announced that in November this year its iron ore concentrate production increased by 12.05% year on year to 940,100 tons. Its output of agglomerate in the given month increased by 70.61% year on year to 221,800 tons.In January-November UGOK’s iron ore concentrate production rose by 4.6%…
DetailsIn January-November Ukrainian metal companies increased steel output by 0.6%, to 30,02 million tons, pig iron output – by 1.8%, to 26,637 million tons and decreased rolled metal output by 0.1%, to 26,625 million tons, YoY. In November steel smelting decreased compared to October by 2.5%, to 2.554 million tons, and by 4.9% compared to…
DetailsThe Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has stated that it has signed a contract with Italy’s Termokimik Corporation, a leading producer of environmental equipment for industrial companies, to develop the basic engineering to upgrade the sinter plant at its subsidiary Mariupol Ilyich Iron & Steel Works (MMKI). Total investment in the project will…
DetailsIn November Zaporizhstal’s finished steel product output decreased by 26.5% year on year to 199,100 tons, while its crude steel production declined by 11.6% year on year to 279,000 tons, according to the company’s preliminary results.In the January-November period Zaporizhstal saw a 1.6% year-on-year rise in its finished steel product output to 2.932 million tons,…
DetailsIn the January-November period of the current year Ukrainian companies produced 1.501 million tons of steel pipes, down by 22% compared to the same period last year, according to the figures issued by Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers.
In November Ukraine’s steel pipe production decreased by 14.2% compared to October, to 97,000 tons. (SteelOrbis/Ukrainian metal)
In October Ukraine exported $69.89 million worth of pig iron, imports totaled $0.9 million. Italy was one of the main importers of Ukrainian pig iron ($25.43 million). In January-October Ukraine exported pig iron for $629.41 million, while imports totaled $5.09 million. In September Ukraine exported pig iron for $62.01 million and imported for $0.76 million.…
DetailsIn the first 11 months of the current year Ukraine registered a 0.1% decrease in its finished steel product output to 26.625 million tons, a 0.6% increase in its crude steel output to 30.020 million tons and a 1.8% rise in its pig iron production to 26.637 million tons, all year on year, according to…
DetailsIn October Ukraine exported steel pipes for $94.57 million. Imports totaled $17.74 million. One of the main importers of steel pipes in October was Russia ($30.4 million). In January-October Ukraine exported steel pipes for $1409.26 million, while imports reached $155.47 million. In September Ukrainian steel pipes exports totaled $151.7 million, while imports were at the…
DetailsAccording to Dmitrii Lippa, CEO of “Metinvest-SMC”, in January-August Ukrainian rolled metal market capacity decreased by 5%, to 3.198 million tons, YoY.In particular, in the given period angle sales decreased by 19%, to 120,000 tons, as compared to the same period of 2012. Hot-rolled sheet and coil sales decreased by 11%, to 1.315 million tons,…
DetailsAccording to the press-report, in January-October Zaporizhstal Integrated Iron and Steel Works increased pig iron output by 0.1%, to 2.684 million tons, steel – by 1.5, to 3.207 million tons, and rolled metal – by 4.5%, to 2.733 million tons, all YoY.In October Zaporizhstal produced 281,900 tons of pig iron, 333,600 tons of steel and…
DetailsThe Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has announced its results for the first half of 2013. In the given period Metinvest’s net profit amounted to $443 million, rising by 31% compared to the same period of the previous year. The company’s sales decreased by 3% year on year to $6.5 billion, mainly due…
DetailsUkrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has announced that its crude steel production increased by 2% to 3.2 million tons in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter. In the first nine months of the current year Metinvest produced 9.44 million tons of crude steel, down by 1% year on year. In addition,…
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