Railroad transportation in the ATO zone has been renewed which allowed metal companies there to start working again. On June 13, Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works put the blast furnace into operation. Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works used to operate only one blast furnace but now intends to put the second one into operation as…
Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works continues to operate only 1 blast furnace despite the absence of raw materials caused by the partial stop of railroad connections in the ATO zone. “EMZ was not halted, it goes on operating its blast furnaces one at a time with low capacity. On average per day the works produces…
In January-May Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works produced 880 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 56% YoY. According to a company representative, steel smelting increased by 37.8%, to 879 thousand tons, and pig iron output grew by 52.5%, to 839 thousand tons, all YoY. In May the works produced 195 thousand tons of rolled…
Several iron and steel works, situated on the Ukraine-uncontrolled territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, have been stopped because of the Donetsk railway strike. A week ago railroaders went on a strike demanding their salaries to be paid. Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works has temporarily closed-down all of its blast furnaces. Yenakievo Iron and Steel…
This year Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works plans to put the pulverized coal injection system at its blast furnaces No. 3 and 5 into operation. “The machine could inject up to 240 kilograms of pulverized coal per 1 ton of pig iron, thus decreasing coke consumption”, said the company in its statement. The works also…
Shareholders of Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works have increased the number of the supervisory board members from 1 to 5. Metinvest B.V. (the Netherlands) was dismissed from the board, and Yuri Ryzhenkov, Alexander Pogozhev, Julia Dankova, Svetlana Romanova (all of them being representatives of Metinvest B.V.) and Sergey Korenitsin (an independent director) were appointed instead,…
In 2016 Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works intends to produce 2130.5 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 29.28% YoY, or by 482.5 thousand tons. According to the company statement, it also plans to increase sinter output by 20.6%, produce 2290.5 thousand tons of billets, up by 26%, or by 472.5 thousand tons, and 2251.5…
In January-March Metinvest companies produced 1.99 million tons of steel, up by 19% YoY and 17% QoQ. In particular, Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works produced 501 thousand tons of steel, while Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works – 715 thousand tons, with Azovstal producing 783 thousand tons, up by 91%, 21% and down by 4%…
