In January-February Armenia decreased metal output by 10.8% YoY. According to the National Statistics Service, ferromolybdenum output dropped by 38.6%, to 713 tons, with 368 tons produced in February, up by 6.7% MoM. Molybdenum concentrate manufacture decreased by 0.7%, to 1791 tons (834 tons in February, down by 12.9% MoM). Converter copper output grew by…
In January-February Russia increased rolled metal output by 3.3% YoY, to 10 million tons. In February output dropped by 6.9% MoM, but grew by 2.3% YoY. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, pig iron manufacture totaled 8.6 million tons, up by 1.7% YoY, with February results up by 1.1% YoY, but down by…
In February Kazakshtan produced 0.355 million tons of steel, down by 6.6% MoM, but up by 9.2% YoY. In 2 months steel output grew by 5.8%, to 0.736 million tons. Ferroalloys manufacture in February reached 0.154 million tons, up by 4.2% YoY, but down by 9.9% MoM. In January-February ferroalloys output increased by 3.2% YoY,…
In January Russia produced 4.5 million tons of pig iron, down by 0.9% MoM, but up by 2.2% YoY. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, rolled metal output increased by 3.5% YoY, but dropped by 5.8% MoM, to 5.1 million tons. Pipe manufacture reached 0.954 million tons, up by 14.9% YoY, but down…
Major metal companies believe that the favorable trends of 2017 will persist this year as well. Last year Russia produced 71.3 million tons of steel, up by 2.4% YoY. Rolled metal output grew slightly – by 0.7%, to 60.9 million tons. Pig iron manufacture grew even less – by 0.55%, to 52.2 million tons. It…
In 2017 Armenia increased metal output by 11.3% YoY, after the 11.1% drop in 2016. According to the National Statistics Service, in 2017 ferromolybdenum production grew by 1.1% YoY, to 6588 tons, with December 2017 output at 490 tons, down by 15.1% MoM. Molybdenum concentrate output increased by 2.8%, to 10961 tons, with 828 tons…
In 2017 Russia produced 60.9 million tons of rolled metal, up by 0.7% YoY. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics (Rosstat), in December 2017 output grew by 13.9% MoM and by 1.2% YoY. In 2017 pig iron output increased by 0.55% YoY, to 52.2 million tons, with December 2017 results up by 2.3%…
In December 2017 Kazakhstan produced 0.424 million tons of steel, up by 13.9% YoY and by 2.2% MoM. In 2017 steel manufacture totaled 4.663 million tons, up by 9.4% YoY. Ferroalloys output increased by 6.6% YoY in 2017, to 1.948 million tons. In December 2017 output grew by 5.2% MoM and by 6.1% YoY, to…
