The state enterprise Ukrpromvneshexpertisa believes that in February ferrous scrap prices will increase by 2.56% MoM, or by 200 UAH per ton. “At present the price is around 7800 UAH (per ton). That’s some 700 UAH more than in mid-December 2017. I think by the end of the month it will have increased by 200…
In December 2017 scrap procuring companies procured 357 thousand tons of scrap, up by 12% MoM, of which 305 thousand tons were supplied to the metal companies, up by 13%, and 52 thousand tons exported, up by 8%. The scrap provision rate was 104%. In 2017 out of 3.79 million tons of scrap procured, up…
In 2017 Ukrainian metal works purchased 2.83 million tons of scrap, down by 12.7% YoY. Scrap covered only 90% of the need. The average usage of purchased scrap was 133 kg per 1 ton of steel. At the same time exports of scrap in 2017 increased by 78.5% YoY, to 486.5 thousand tons. The major…
In October, according to the Customs Statistics, Russia exported 12.3 thousand tons of corrosion-resistant steel scrap and waste valued at around $12.5 million, up by 10.4% MoM and by 18.3% YoY. Moreover, this is the second highest result for the past several years (the largest was recorded in June 2011 – 16 thousand tons). Revenue…
In 2017 ferrous scrap procuring companies will amass 3.7 million tons of scrap, and 80% (2.96 million tons) will be in the shade. As the result the budget will get only 53.3 million UAH. “One of the main issues is the deshading of the scrap market”, Ukrmetallurgprom president Alexander Kalenkov believes. According to him, in…
In November Ukrainian metal companies were supplied with scrap at 96%. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, last month scrap-procuring companies prepared 318 thousand tons, up by 2% MoM. Of this volume local metal companies received 270 thousand tons, while 48 thousand tons were exported, up by 20% MoM. In January-November out of 3.4 million tons of scrap…
The road police of Belarus have detected a truck with metal scrap without any registration marks on the road to the Russian border. The police tried to stop the truck, but it turned to another road. When the truck entered the forest the police opened fire. After 16 shots the rear wheel was damaged. When…
In September, according to the customs statistics, Russia exported 11.1 thousand tons of corrosion-resistant steel waste and scrap, down by 5.4% YoY, but up 2.1-fold YoY. Revenue increased by 2.2% MoM and 2.3-fold YoY, to $10.8 million. In January-September Russia exported 68.7 thousand tons of scrap, up by 17.2% YoY, valued at $66.1 million, up…
