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September 2015 | Steel Raw Materials


Ukrainian MPI production surges to multi-year high: Iron Metallics Market Analysis


Ukraine’s Donetskstal Metallurgy Plant (DMZ) increased production 71% month-on-month to 92kt in August, as the facility ramped-up output from its second blast furnace that was restarted in mid-July. I

Ukrainian merchant pig iron (MPI) production rose to 320kt in August; surging 100% month-on-month and 194% year-on-year to reach its highest level in over two years. In fact, MBR understands a slight thawing of hostilities in the east of the country has limited the disruption to raw materials facilities providing supplies to merchant pig iron producers; enabling bottlenecks, which have constricted production for the majority of the year, to ease. Moreover, Ukrainian coke output had been considerably afflicted by the conflict. More...

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