Ukrainian steelmaker Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works plans to decrease slab shipments in May by 20% compared to April to 200,000-205,000 tons.This reduction in semi-finished steel shipments is caused by rising demand for hot-rolled flat steel. In April the company decreased shipments of slabs by 8% compared to March to 255,000 tons.In May Alchevsk plans…
DetailsIn the January and April period of the current year crude steel production of the Ukrainian steelmaker Zaporizhstal increased by 18% YoY reaching 1.255 million tons.In the given period Zaporizhstal saw a 6% increase in its pig iron production to 960,000 tons and an 18% increase in its finished steel production to 1.041 million tons.…
DetailsIn the January to April period of the current year the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, the Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 1.838 million tons, down by 10% YoY. In addition, in the first 4 months of the year ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih registered a 12% decrease YoY in its finished…
DetailsIn the January to April period of the current year the steelmaking subsidiaries of Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest vertically integrated mining and steel group, saw an 8% increase in their crude steel production to 4.938 million tons, a 13% rise in their finished steel production to 4.359 million tons and a 5% increase in their pig…
DetailsIn the January to April period the steelmaking subsidiaries of the Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD) produced a total of 2.244 million tons of pig iron, up by 8% compared to the same period of last year.In addition, the subsidiaries’ crude steel output in the given period increased by 2% compared to…
DetailsIn the Q1 of the current year Ukrainian imports of long products increased by 22.5% compared to the corresponding period of 2010, rising to 87,990 tons. In March alone Ukraine’s long product imports rose by 48.4% compared to February to 37,870 tons, while marking an increase of 39.4% YoY.In the first 3 months of 2011…
DetailsUkrainian pipe producer Khartsyzsk Pipe Works announced that in January to April this year it produced 210,000 tons of steel pipes, 194% more than in the same period of 2010. Meanwhile, KhPW’s production of steel pipes in April decreased by 1% compared to March, dropping to 54,100 tons. (SteelOrbis)
Metinvest is launching BOF steel rails production at Azovstal Iron and Steel Works. The manufacturing procedure for the rails production has been approved by Azovstal’s strategic partner Ukrzaliznytsya.Metinvest experts together with the State Research and Development Center of Ukraine have developed and evaluated the manufacturing practice for BOF steel rails and all delivery trials have…
DetailsAccording to the official data for the Q1 of the current year, Ukrainian exports of metallurgical coke increased by 39.4% YoY to 43,481 tons.In March alone, coke exports from Ukraine increased by 105.9% compared to February, rising to 227,900 tons, and were up by 126.9% YoY. In 2010 Ukraine’s coke exports increased by 59% YoY…
DetailsIn the first 3 months of the current year Ukrainian exports of ferrous scrap decreased by 27.8% YoY to 68,090 tons.According to the Ukrainian government, in March Ukraine exported 20,090 tons of ferrous scrap, down by 6.8% compared to February and marking a decrease of 60.4% YoY.In 2010 Ukraine’s ferrous scrap exports declined by 24.8%…
DetailsUkraine’s steel total consumption in 2011 was expected to reach 8.2 million tons, up by 10-15% from a year earlier.Furthermore, it is expected to have more remarkable increase on the steel tube sector and mechanical engineering. Meanwhile, it’s known that Zaporizhstal, Ukraine’s fourth largest steel maker, increased its steel shipment by 90 thousand tons in…
DetailsAccording to Derzhzovnishinform, the Ukrainian national research and information center for monitoring international commodity markets (DZI), Ukrainian export prices of steel pipes will rise by 8-10% up to the end of the Q2 of the current year while domestic steel pipe quotations will increase by not more than 5-6% in the same period.Ukrainian steel pipe…
DetailsAccording to the data, released by the metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in the Q1 of the current year Ukrainian exports of semi-finished steel products increased by 3.2% YoY to 2.716 million tons.In January to March Ukraine exported 1.535 million tons of slabs, up by 27.8%, while exports of square billets dropped…
DetailsAccording to the data released by the metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in the first 3 months of the current year Ukrainian imports of rolled steel increased by 23.8% YoY to 371,200 tons.In March Ukraine imported 136,500 tons of rolled steel, up by 18.3% compared to February, and marking an increase of…
DetailsUkrainian steel companies reported their financial statements for the Q1 2011, which turned out to be much worse than expected.Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works posted negative EBITDA of $45 million which increased 1.5 times YoY, net losses almost doubled to $52 million. Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works’ net losses increased by a factor of…
DetailsMetinvest will become the first and only company in Ukraine to offer clients a maximum wide product range of structural shapes. Starting with Q2 of 2011 the network of service metal centers will be able to offer a full product range of structurals for their clients, including items that were not available before. The output…
DetailsUKRAINE&RUSSIA: STEEL-MAKING PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: FOUNDRY PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROUND BILLETS UKRAINE&RUSSIA: SQUARE BILLETS Month Russian market, $/t, $1/RUR31.38 Ukrainian market, $/t without VAT, $1/UAH 5.33* min max min max February 464.82 774.38 791.76 1008.90 March 806.25 857.23 791.76 1008.90 Month Export, Ukraine, $/t, FOB Black sea ports Export, Russia, $/t, FOB Black sea ports…
DetailsAccording to the data issued by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, in January to February Ukraine’s metallurgical sector registered an aggregate loss of UAH 1.11 billion compared to the aggregate loss of about UAH 2.437 billion in January to February 2010.In the January to February period of the current year, 52% of all Ukrainian…
DetailsAccording to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, domestic steel production is expected to increase to 3.16 million tons in May. In the same month Ukrainian metallurgists plan to produce 2.64 million tons of cast iron and 2.87 million tons of rolled metal, while Ukraine is expected to import 30,000 tons of pellets, 60,000…
DetailsAccording to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in March Ukraine’s average daily pig iron output continued its positive trend seeing an increase of 2.3% MoM from 78,800 tons to 81,100 tons. Products January 2011, t February 2011, t March 2011, t Pig iron 77,800 78,800 81,000 Crude steel 92,400 95,300 100,000 Rolled steel…
DetailsIt is reported that ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih’s, the Ukraine-based subsidiary of the world’s largest integrated metals and mining company ArcelorMittal, operations in March were stable with output being at the same level as in the first two months of the year. However, the company steel outputs both in March and in Q1 registered decreases compared…
DetailsAccording to the information issued by the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy, from October 1 2010 to April 1 2011 Russia and other countries utilized 85.62% of the 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 13,661 tons.According to these…
DetailsMetinvest announced that it plans to increase efficiency of its Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works by improving the production site administration and management. The planned steps, taken within the frame of Metinvest’s ongoing continuous improvements, reconstruction and production modernization program are expected to result in growing margins of Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works due to increased…
DetailsUKRAINE&RUSSIA: STEEL-MAKING PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: FOUNDRY PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROUND BILLETS Month Ukrainian market, $/t, $1/UAH5,33* min max January 847.41 847.41 February 950.19 969.58 Month Export, Ukraine, $/t, FOB Black sea ports min max January 585.00 595.00 February 650.00 655.00 Month Export, Russia, $/t, FOB Black sea ports min max January 585.00 595.00 February 650.00…
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