In April global pig iron output increased by 5.3% YoY, to 100.77 million tons. The world leader was still China with 62.58 million tons, up by 7.1% YoY. Japan produced 6.514 million tons of pig iron, India – 5.535 million tons, Russia – 4.405 million tons, South Korea – 3.45 million tons, Germany – 2.553…
In January CIS-countries produced 6.855 million tons of pig iron, up by 5.6% YoY, against 6.753 million tons in December 2016. In particular, Kazakhstan produced 345 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 16.2% YoY, Ukraine – 2030 thousand tons, up by 5.7%, and Russia – 4480 thousand tons, up by 4.8% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
OAO Minsk Motor Plant (MMZ, managing company of MMZ Group) plans to complete the first stage of a project to build a high strength cast iron plant in Stolbtsy (Minsk region) in Q2 2017. The first stage includes three launch units: the first unit (cylinder block liner facility with annually capacity of 8,000 units) was…
Ukrainian export prices are up by $15-40, Russian – by $25-30.
