In May Turkey imported 83 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 89.2% YoY. In January-May imports reached 644 thousand tons, up by 113.5%. Russia supplied 418 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 178.53% YoY and Ukraine – 154 thousand tons, up by 58.45%. Deliveries from Brazil totaled 53 thousand tons, up by 525.43%.…
In April, according to the customs statistics, Russia imported 152.8 thousand tons of pig iron from Ukraine. In March the deliveries totaled 136.8 thousand tons. Ukraine started supplying pig iron to Russia in November 2017 and in 6 months exported 590 thousand tons. Rostov region accounted for some 60% of purchases, followed by Moscow region…
Despite several years of military activity, the city of Melitopol, situated not far from the war zone, is developing machine-building. Soon the TurboCom group of companies will open a new manufacturing complex EcoPromLit. The company will produce cast iron according to gasifiable pattern molding. With the help of this method some 30% of castings are…
In February Russia produced 3.885 million tons of blast furnace pig iron, down by 2.1% YoY (4.3 million tons in January). In 2 months Russia produced 8.185 million tons of pig iron, down by 2.2% YoY. Ukraine February pig iron output increased by 3.8% YoY, to 1.625 million tons (1.8 million tons), but dropped by…
In January Russia produced 4.3 million tons of pig iron, down by 2.3% YoY (4.32 million tons in December 2017). Ukraine decreased output by 6% YoY, to 1.8 million tons (same in December 2017). 325 thousand tons of pig iron were produced in Kazakhstan (same in December 2017), down by 49.1% YoY. All in all…
The state enterprise Ukrpromvneshexpertisa forecasts that pig iron prices will continue growing influenced by the expected growth of scrap price. By the end of November the rolled metal trade will have revived, which will allow exporters to increase prices. The forecast range of prices for November is $320-370 per ton FOB. In October negative trends…
In June Russia produced 4.55 million tons of pig iron, down by 7.7% YoY (5.095 million tons in May). In January-June pig iron output decreased by 1.7% YoY, to 30.186 million tons. Ukrainian pig iron output in June totaled 1.52 million tons, down by 13.9% YoY (1.61 million tons in May), with 9.658 million tons…
In May Russia produced 4.3 million tons of pig iron, down by 2% YoY. In 5 months pig iron output dropped by 0.6% YoY, to 21.634 million tons. Ukraine in May decreased pig iron manufacture by 31.8% YoY, to 1.53 million tons, with 8.058 million tons produced in January-May, down by 20.9% YoY. Kazakhstan pig…