UKRAINE&RUSSIA: STEEL-MAKING PIG IRON Month Russian market, $/t, $1/RUR32.1961* Ukrainian market, $/t without VAT, $1/UAH7.9898* min max min max August 340.10 512.48 513.15 525.67 September 340.10 512.48 513.15 525.67 Month Export, Ukraine, $/t, FOB Black sea ports Export, Russia, $/t, FOB Black sea ports min max min max August 390.00 395.00 395.00 400.00 September 395.00…
DetailsUkrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has announced the launch of steel billet sales, produced by Interpipe Steel electric steel-melting complex. The steel billet mill, commissioned in 2012, produces round continuously cast billets for pipe and wheel steel grades with diameters ranging between 150 and 470 mm. The mill has already shipped trial lots…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine’s ferroalloy production decreased by 22.4% compared to the same period last year to 623,500 tons, according to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers (UkrFA). In the given period Ukraine’s silicomanganese output decreased by 17.3% to 455,800 tons, while its ferromanganese production declined by 55.3% to 60,200 tons, both year on year. In…
DetailsAccording to the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, in the first nine months of the current year Ukraine exported 130,328 tons of steel scrap, down by 64.4% year on year, worth a total of $40.691 million, down by 73.4% year on year.In the January-September period this year Ukraine’s scrap imports increased 2.4 times year on…
DetailsIn November Ukraine’s crude steel production is expected to decrease by 4.8% compared to September to 2.560 million tons. In November pig iron output in Ukraine will total 2.360 million tons, down by 3.4% compared to the September results, while production of rolled steel is expected to total 2.310 million tons, down by 0.8% compared…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine’s exports of iron ore increased by 8% year on year to 28.4 million tons. Exports of iron ore from Ukraine decreased by 3.3% in September compared to August, falling to 2.9 million tons.In the January-September period Ukrainian imports of iron ore increased by 13% year on year to 2.080 million tons. In…
DetailsThe international rating agency Fitch has confirmed the B-rating of Finest Trading Co Limited (Cyprus), the holding company of the Donetskstal group. Fitch has confirmed the long-term default rating in foreign and domestic currency on the level of B, at the same decreasing the national long-term rating of the company from AA (ukr) to A+…
DetailsIn the first nine months of the current year the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, the Ukrainian subsidiary of the global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 4.7639 million tons, down by 0.06% YoY, as announced by the company. In addition, in the first nine months of the year ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih saw a 3.1%…
DetailsExport prices for metal products at Ukrainian ports were almost unchanged from October, 3rd to October, 10th. Billets prices (FOB Black sea) remained at the level of $495 per ton, reinfrocement bars – $565 per ton, rolled wire – $570 per ton. Neither did the price of slabs ($490 per ton), nor cold-rolled coils ($610…
DetailsOn September, 23rd, DEMZ started working again. In August Mechel sold DEMZ to Vadim Vishnevskiy for 2 thousand euros. The buyer also has to pay all the DEMZ debts ($81 million) to Mechel. Varshavskiy bought DEMZ in 2008 for $700 million, but couldn’t return the credit and the Plant was taken by Alfa-bank. In May…
DetailsSteel consumption in Ukraine in 2013 is expected to decrease by 7.9% compared to 2012, to 5.8 million tons, according to Hans Jurgen Kerkhoff, the head of World Steel Association’s economic committee.He says in 2014 Ukraine is expected to witness an increase in steel consumption by 4.3% as compared to 2013, to 6 millin tons.…
DetailsIn January-September the British Ferrexpo Plc., owner of the Poltava Mining-extracting works, increased its pellets output by 12.5%, to 8.048 million tons, YoY. In particular, the total output of pellets with 62% iron content increased by 10.2% to 4.343 millin tons, while the output of pellets with 65% iron content increased by 15.3% to 3.705…
DetailsZaporizhstal, a part of the Metinvest Group, considers the Russian market to be important for the company and intends to continue metal supplies to it and continue to meet the needs of Russian customers.Mr. Rostyslav Shurma, director general of Zaporizhstal, said at a press conference in Zaporizhia on the occasion of signing a contract with…
DetailsIn the first nine months of the current year Ukraine registered a 7.7% decrease in its metallurgical coke output to 13.306 million tons, according to the data issued by Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers.
In September Ukraine produced 1.436 million tons of metallurgical coke, up by 11% year on year. (SteelOrbis/Ukrainian metal)
In the January-September period of the current year, Ukrainian companies produced 1.2908 million tons of steel pipes, down by 19.5% compared to the same period last year, according to the figures issued by Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers.
In September Ukraine’s steel pipe production decreased by 1.9% compared to August, to 140,700 tons. (SteelOrbis/Ukrainian metal)
In January-September 2013 Zaporizhstal Integrated Iron and Steel Works increased its pig iron output by 0.1%, steel output by 1.6% and rolled metal by 4.7%, YoY. In September Zaporizhstal saw an increase in its production volumes: pig iron output went up by 0.5%, while the rolled metal output increased by 4.7%. In September the works…
DetailsIn the first nine months of the current year Ukraine registered a 1% decrease in its finished steel product output to 21.920 million tons, a 1% increase in its crude steel output to 24.847 million tons, and a 2.5% rise in its pig iron production to 21.897 million tones, all year on year, according to…
DetailsUkraine-based Ukrtransgas, an affiliate of the Ukrainian national oil and gas company Naftogaz, has announced that Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest and Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe have won a tender for the supply of steel pipes worth a total of UAH 33.776 million ($4.07 million).According to the contract, Metinvest…
DetailsAzovstal Iron and Steel Works has passed the compliance certification for the right to produce transport metal (railway wide gauge rails, tie plates and joint bars) in accordance with the requirements established by the national system UkrSEPRO. The audit was conducted by the specialists of the state enterprise Kharkov Railway Transport Certification Authority.On September 18th-20th…
DetailsThe pilot-industrial complex “Zheltye Vody”, a part of the “Metal Union” group, started to export iron ore concentrate to Slovakia. In the second quarter of 2013 the company supplied 20 thousand tons of iron ore concentrate. A number of metallurgical works from Eastern European countries and China are interested in the products of the company.…
DetailsThe mining and processing works (MPW) have released the production data for 8 months. In January-August the Poltava MPW increased the iron ore concentrate output by 11.8%. In the given period it produced 8.63 million tons of iron ore concentrate and 7.07 million tons of pellets, up by 11.5% YoY. The Ingulets MPW has retained…
DetailsUKRAINE&RUSSIA: STEEL-MAKING PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: FOUNDRY PIG IRON Month Russian market, $/t, $1/RUR32.1961* min max July 496.95 590.13 August 496.95 590.13 Month Ukrainian market, $/t without VAT, $1/UAH7.9898* min max July 563.22 588.25 August 563.22 588.25 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.08.13 according to the National Bank of…
DetailsIn October Ukraine’s crude steel production is expected to decrease by 4.8% compared to August to 2.670 million tons. In October pig iron output in Ukraine will total 2.480 million tons, down by 0.9% compared to the August results, while Ukrainian production of rolled steel is expected to total 2.45 million tons, down by 0.1%…
DetailsIn the January-August period this year Ukraine’s ferroalloy production decreased by 23% compared to the same period last year to 551,000 tons. In the given period Ukraine’s silicomanganese output decreased by 15.8% to 405,250 tons, while its ferromanganese production declined by 54.7% to 55,700 tons, both year on year. Specifically, in the first eight months…
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