In January-February, Russia produced 9.6 million tons of unalloyed steel and semi-finished products, down by 2.9%. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in February production decreased by 7.6% MoM and by 4.2% YoY. Rolled metal manufacture totaled 10.4 million tons, up by 1.8% YoY, with February output down by 8.6% MoM and by…
In February, Kazakhstan increased raw steel manufacture by 15.5% YoY, to 275,437 tons. In 2 months output grew by 34.3%, to 618,759 tons. Rolled metal manufacture in February totaled 154,394 tons and in 2 months – 327,511 tons, up by 37% and by 79.3% respectively. Ferroalloys output increased by 2.5% in February, to 171,563 tons,…
In January industrial production in Russia grew by 1.1% YoY, but dropped by 17.3% MoM. According to Rosstat, mining decreased by 0.4% YoY. In particular, coal extraction – by 8.8%, while that of metal ores grew by 2.4%. Metal industry demonstrated a growth of 2.3%, with steel wares up by 19.3% and castings by 35.1%.…
In January Kazakhstan produced 343,322 tons of steel, up by 54.5% YoY. According to the statistics committee of the Ministry of National Economy, flat rolled metal output grew by 147.6%, to 173,117 tons. Kazakhstan also produced 189,621 tons of ferroalloys, up by 5%. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2019 Volgograd region increased metal output by 13.7% YoY. Cold-drawn unalloyed steel wire manufacture grew by 31%, rolled metal – by 23.8% and steel pipes – by 8.9%. Companies producing metal wares increased output by 17.1%, with ferrous metals structures manufacture growing 1.6-fold, metal doors, windows and frames – by 41.7%, and electrodes with…
In 2019 Azerbaijan produced 763.5 million manats worth of metal, down by 20% YoY. According to the State Statistics Committee, manufacture of metal wares grew by 82.4%, to 214.604 million manats. Last year Azerbaijan produced 326.4 thousand tons of steel, down by 14.5%, 300.6 thousand tons of rebars, down by 2.8%, 49.2 thousand tons of…
In 2019 Kazakhstan produced 4.463 million tons of steel, up by 11.4% YoY. At the same time, rolled metal manufacture dropped by 20%, to 2.036 million tons. According to the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of the National Economy, Kazakhstan produced 2.217 million tons of ferroalloys, up by 6.2%. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2019 metal output is expected to decrease because of the long repairs of rolling mills and blast furnaces. In January-September Russian metal output increased by 1.3%, mostly due to the non-ferrous metals (+2%), while ferrous metals dropped by 0.1%. Exports fell by 10.6%, with prices down by 15-20%. Domestic consumption grew by 4%. (Ukrainian…