UKRAINE&RUSSIA: STEEL-MAKING PIG IRONUKRAINE&RUSSIA: FOUNDRY PIG IRON UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROUND BILLETS UKRAINE&RUSSIA: SQUARE BILLETS UKRAINE&RUSSIA: ROLLED WIREUKRAINE&RUSSIA: SLABS UKRAINE&RUSSIA: REINFORCEMENT STEEL, CLASS A1, A3 Month Russian market, $/t, $1/RUR31.38* min max September 548.12 788.72 October 548.12 788.72 Month Ukrainian market, $/t without VAT, $1/UAH 5.33* min max September 890.81 1009.76 October 890.81 1009.76 Month Export, Ukraine,…
DetailsIt is reported that in October Ukraine’s steel pipe exports increased by 18.5% MoM and by 5.5% YoY to 116,730 tons valued at about $131.7 million, up by 24.7% MoM.Specifically, in October Ukraine exported 59,480 tons of seamless pipes, up by 34% MoM, of which 27,470 tons were delivered to Russia, 6,800 tons were exported…
DetailsIt is reported that in October Ukraine’s long steel product exports increased by 40.3% MoM to September and by 4.6% YoY to 498,400 tons valued at about $318 million, up by 66.4% MoM.Ukraine’s main long steel export destinations in October were Russia (137,550 tons), Iraq (67,240 tons), Lebanon (33,240 tons), Jordan (33,020 tons), Romania (27,120…
DetailsIt is reported that in January to November Zaporizhstal steel works showed production results compared to the same period of the last year as follows: pig iron is merely unchanged – 2.5 million tons, down by 0.19%, while steel smelting increased by 1.09% to 3.051 million tons, finished steel production increased by 1.23% to 2.55…
DetailsIt is reported that in October Ukraine’s ferrous scrap exports saw a 15.5% decrease MoM and were down by 81% YoY to 24,680 tons of which 24,290 tons were delivered to Turkey and 390 tons were exported to Lithuania.The value of Ukraine’s scrap export sales in October was down by about 12% compared to September…
DetailsIt is reported that in October Ukraine’s pig iron exports decreased by 55.2% compared to September and by 44.7% YoY to 67,960 tons. 37,540 tons of Ukraine’s pig iron exports in October were delivered to Italy, while 30,370 tons were shipped to Turkey. The value of Ukraine’s pig iron export sales in October was down by…
DetailsIt is reported that in January to October Ukraine incensed high quality raw materials DRI/HBI import by 3.12 times as compared with the same period of last year to 278300 tons. In particular, in October the import volume grew by 14% to 33,400 tons as compared to September. At the same time Ukraine increased basic…
DetailsMinistry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine reported that Metinvest Group planned to supply 27,000 tons of slabs, produced by Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, to Abu Zabel Company of the Ministry of the Defense Industry of Egypt.The contract between Metinvest Group and Abu Zabel was signed on November 25th after the meeting between the Minister…
DetailsIt is reported that in January to October Ukrainian scrap procurement companies reduced scrap export by 24% YoY to 553,300 tons.In October scrap export decreased by 15.4% to 24,700 tons as compared to September.In 10 months of 2010 Ukraine decreased scrap import by 19.8% to 7,700 tons as compared with the same period of 2009.…
DetailsThe RBC Ukraine information agency reported that in the first nine months of this year Ukraine’s steel product exports to Egypt declined by 34.5% YoY from 1.139 million tons to 746,000 tons, valued at $361 million, down by 7.2% YoY.Specifically, during the period in question, Ukraine’s exports to Egypt of semi-efinished steel products went down…
DetailsAccording to the data issued by the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in January to September Ukrainian steelmakers, which are members of Metallurgprom, invested a total of UAH 2.757 billion in the upgrading of their production facilities, down by 12.2% YoY. January-September 2010 Change Donetsk region 1.376 billion UAH -18.2% Mariupol Ilyich Iron and…
DetailsAccording to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers, in January to October Ukraine increased its ferroalloys production by 47% YoY to 1.19 million tons.During the first 10 months of this year, Ukraine’s silicomanganese output increased by 34% to 781,900 tons, its ferromanganese production went up 2.4 times to 236,600 tons, its ferrosilicon output increased by…
DetailsAccording to Ukraine’s State Statistics Committee, as of October 1st, foreign direct investments in the country manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products amounted to $5.656 billion accounting for 13.3% of total foreign investment in Ukraine.In particular, FDI from Cyprus amounted to $583 million, FDI from Germany totaled $4.6 billion, from the Netherlands reached…
DetailsAccording to Mr. Amir Aisautov, head of mining and metallurgical development at the parent company System Capital Management, Metinvest will more than double steel output to 15-16 million tons next year after it has merged with the Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works.He said that Metinvest aims to be the national mining and metals champion…
DetailsAccording to the data released by the metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in the first ten months of 2010 Ukraine’s imports of rolled steel products increased by 98.7% YoY amounting to about 1.18 million tons. In October Ukraine’s imports of rolled steel products saw a 2.5% decrease compared to September and a…
DetailsA program for mastering production of steel channels by European norms is completed at the shop No. 2, Evraz Petrovsky Steel, Dnepropetrovsk.Trial lots of UPE 80, UPE 100, UPE 120 and UPE 140 in accordance with DIN 1026-2 were produced in quantity of around 250 tons each.Mr. Evgeny Kotliagin, CEO of Evraz Petrovsky Steel, informed…
DetailsIt is reported that the Russian government extends and increases the antidumping duties for the Ukrainian pipe makers, that otherwise would have expired in January 2011. Interpipe products can enjoy the preferential 19.4% duty on hot deformed and gas oil pipe exports to Russia.According to a Millennium Capital analyst “The news is negative for the…
DetailsAccording to Mr. Sergei Belenky, Ukraine’s Senior Deputy Minister of Industrial Policy, in 2010 Ukraine is expected to produce 27.2 million tons of pig iron, 32.2 million tons of crude steel and 30.2 million tons of finished steel products.He said that currently the capacity utilization in Ukraine’s steel production stands at 71.4%, while average daily…
DetailsIt is reported that Donetsk Electrometallurgical Plant (DEMZ) in January to October increased its steel smelting volume by 45% YoY to 626,600 tons.According to the company, since April it has been operating at stable levels, with its steel output amounting to an average of 87,200 tons per month, which corresponds to its designed capacity. In…
DetailsAccording to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in October Ukraine’s average daily pig iron output continued its positive trend, which started in August, registering an increase of about 1%, or 700 tons, compared to September to 75,500 tons. In the first ten days of November the country’s average daily pig iron output increased…
DetailsNRCU cites Mr. Serhiy Bilenky, Deputy Industrial Policy Minister, as saying that Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises may face problems with the export of steel products after 2015 due to a gradual reduction in supplies to Turkey.Mr. Bilenky said “We are currently supplying a significant part of steel products to Turkey. Turkey has been actively developing its…
DetailsIt is reported that Donetskstal Metallurgical Plant increased the open-hearth steel production by 22.2%, or by 8,000 tons, to 44,000 tons in October compared to September. This was reported by the spokesman in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. In October Donetskstal reduced pig iron production by 8.1%, or 9000 tons, to 102,000 tons. Donetskstal reduced…
DetailsIt is reported that in October the Ukrainian steel industry increased its natural gas consumption by 50 million cubic meters MoM – to 456 million cubic meters with its average daily consumption of natural gas during the month totaling 14.7 million cubic meters, up from 13.5 million cubic meters in September.According to the Ukrainian association…
DetailsAccording to preliminary data, in January to October ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, a Ukraine-based subsidiary of the world largest integrated metals and mining company ArcelorMittal, saw its crude steel production increase by 26.8% YoY to 5.1 million tons.During the first ten months of the year ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih produced: 4.453 million tons of finished steel, up…
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