In January-March Ukraine sold 532.95 billion UAH of industrial goods (products and services), up by 34.7% YoY, including 140.84 billion UAH exported, up by 40.3%. According to the State Statistics Service, mining and quarry industry sales increased by 75.4% and of processing – by 28.1%. Metal and metal wares accounted for 16.7% of the sales,…
In March pig iron output decreased by 23.3%, steel semi-finished products – by 35.2%, ferrous rolled metal – by 8.4%, all YoY. Steel semis are one of the most popular export products in Ukraine. Pig iron is also often exported to US and Italy. Steel output increased by 9%. Coal mining dropped by 17.7% YoY.…
The National Bank of Ukraine forecasts that most of metal and coke plants will have improved their output to the level of 2016 by the end of 2017. “The enterprises on the Ukraine-controlled territory, which received raw materials from uncontrolled territory, would gradually reorient themselves to other supply sources, either by increasing output on controlled…
In March Ukrainian metal companies consumed 140 million cubic meters of natural gas, down by 30 million cubic meters MoM. Average daily gas consumption dropped by 1.6 million cubic meters, to 4.5 million cubic meters. In Q1 metal companies consumed 510 million cubic meters of gas, up by 11% YoY. Average daily consumption increased from…
In April the Russian Union of Metal Products Suppliers will host a number of round tables for the metal market participants, dedicated to various segments of the ferrous and non-ferrous metals segments. In particular, in April 13-14, it will host the “Ferrous and non-ferrous metals manufacture and consumption markets in the Republic of Belarus” round…
Gazprombank and Asaka Bank signed a co-financing agreement to fund important investment projects, including a metallurgical plant not far from Tashkent. The plant will produce cold-rolled sheets with and without coating. The EUR 280-million project will be launched in the coming months so the plant could be put into operation in 2019. The Tashkent metallurgical…
The UMG Resource company, which specializes in industrial waste management, in 2016 increased its revenue from the sales of ash-slag materials by 47.5% YoY, to 149 million UAH. Sales of ash-slag materials (fly ash, wet fly ash, slag, ash slag) increased by 38.7%, to 480,000 tons. Products were dispatched from the DTEK’s thermal power plants…
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Ildar Khalikov has met the representatives of the Gemont company (Turkey) and discussed the prospects of further cooperation. In particular the parties discussed the creation of a metallurgical works to produce rolled sheet. The project has been developed by Gemont, which specializes in manufacture and assembly of…