Dniprovskyi Iron and Steel Works
Dniprovskyi Iron and Steel Works (DMK) is an integrated steelmaking company. It is a member of the Industrial Union of Donbas corporation.
DMK produces semi-finished products, including pipe billets for the manufacture of oil and gas tubular goods, as well as long products. DMK specialized in square billets (exported to countries of the Middle East and North Africa), wire rods (exported to the EU countries) and pig iron (key importer is the United States).
DMK is the only Ukrainian producer of rolled axial billets for railway transport, Larsen steel sheet piles, contact rails for the underground, and steel strips for aluminum electrolyzers.
Production capacity
2 ladle furnaces
bloom 6-jet continuous casting machine
2 long 7-jet continuous casting machines
Rail and beam shop: cage 1050, rail and beam mill 925, billet cage 925
Long products shop: medium rebar mill 400/200 (bar line) and finished mill — rebar and wire mill 200 (coiled products)
Axis rolling shop: cross rolling mill 250, 2 ball rolling mills 30–80
Staff and wages
* per worker before taxes
Charts and tables
Production results, thousand tons
Indicative sales structure by products in 2020*
Indicative sales structure by countries in 2020*
* structure of sales volumes, metric tons
Financial performance, $ million
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | 1483 | 1776 | 2089 | 1768 | 1930 | 1152 | 1001 | 1021 |
| EBITDA | -193 | -29 | -24 | -274 | -1528 | -1028 | -541 | 3 |
| EBITDA margin | -13.03% | -1.66% | -1.14% | -15.49% | -79.19% | -89.24% | -54.0% | 0,3% |
| Net income | -232 | -234 | -174 | -340 | -1653 | -1059 | -579 | -45 |
| Net income margin | -15.61% | -13.15% | -8.31% | -19.21% | -85.64% | -91.89% | -57.8% | -4,4% |
| CAPEX | 44 | 21 | 21 | 13 | 3 | 4.8 | 4 | 9 |
Key facts
2021
Metinvest received permission from the Antimonopoly Committee to purchase DMK assets.
2020
Dniprovskyi Iron and Steel Works invested $4 million in a new casting stand for the continuous casting machine No. 2.
2019
In 2016–2019, Dniprovskyi Iron and Steel Works invested ₴1.5 billion in environmental projects.
In October 2019, due to a crisis on the markets, Dniprovskyi Iron and Steel Works postponed for a month the launch of facilities previously stopped for repair: the blast furnace No. 9 and the blast furnace No. 12 in the blast furnace shop, as well as the BOF No. 1 and the continuous casting machine No. 3 in the BOF shop.
July 2019
2019
DMK sold its blast-furnaces to Dniprovskyi Coke Plant (Metinvest Holding), according to the media.
DMK plans to build new blast furnace till 2021, according to the company management.
In 2019
Funds were allocated for developing design specifications and estimates for the environmental project “Reconstruction of final gas purification systems for sintering zones of the sintering shop.” The project is scheduled to be implemented in 2019–2021.
In 2018
Waste heat boilers (WHBs) of two BOFs were overhauled, and new gas purification systems were installed. As a result, SPM emissions were reduced from 142 gram/cubic meter to 50 gram/cubic meter.
In 2019
Dniprovskyi Iron and Steel Works plans to launch six new types of products, including wire rods for ropes and welding wire, rolled rebar of six standard sizes, and continuous casting billet of SG2 steel.
Data source for sections “Production results”, “Sales structure”, “Financial performance”: GMK Center calculations, based on companies`annual reports and web-sites data, media sources
30 March 2023
01 August 2022
08 June 2022
05 May 2022
22 February 2022
15 February 2022
14 January 2022
05 January 2022
08 September 2021
27 August 2021