- What will await Ukraine’s steel industry next year?
Opinions Industry protectionism
16 January 2020
In 2019, Ukraine’s mining & metals sector lost profits worth $2.8 billion due to negative factors-
11 November 2019
Will the Ukrainian economy benefit from the sale of state-run enterprises? -
Opinions Ecology European Steel Conference
07 November 2019
The steel industry will go green — in Ukraine too -
Opinions State industrial policy
22 October 2019
The Cabinet’s Action Plan evidences no strong presence of the government in the country’s economic life -
19 September 2019
Last time it was too painful to risk again -
Opinions Industry exchange rate
17 September 2019
The stronger the hryvnia gets, the higher losses Ukraine’s steel industry suffers - The quota amount restricts Ukrainian manufacturers on the one hand. On the other hand, it protects their positions.
- The market is looking for an equilibrium price
- Least processed products: how steelmakers earn on semi-finished products
- Steelmaking is a rather ‘sluggish’ industry in terms of investment
- Complex metal conversion is not developed in Ukraine because of minor domestic consumption
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- The number of objects transferred for privatization reached 530
- Ferrexpo increased the amount of projected dividends up to $80 million
- In 2019, Ukrainian steel producers reduced production by 1–2.5%
- Residential construction in Ukraine dropped by 7.5% in November
- The government delays VAT refund to steelmakers worth ₴2 billion
- Ukraine increased pipe production by 8.6% in November
- Ukraine’s industrial production declined by 7.5% in November
- AMKR considerably reduced production of rolled products, steel and pig iron
- WSA: Ukraine cut steel production by 20% in November
- Metinvest’s EBITDA decreased by 39% over the first 9 months of 2019
- Companies
- Ferrexpo increased the amount of projected dividends up to $80 million
- AMKR considerably reduced production of rolled products, steel and pig iron
- Metinvest’s EBITDA decreased by 39% over the first 9 months of 2019
- Interpipe’s EBITDA grew by 45% to $200 million
- Metinvest increased capital investment by 24% to $770 million, over 9 months
- AMKR CEO will be replaced in early 2020
- AMKR finished H1 with a loss of ₴79.4 million
- Ilyich ISW increased hot-rolled steel production capacities to 2.5 million t
- Metinvest increased the EBITDA in July by 54.3%
- The DCH Group to privatize UMCC
- Ecology
- The Parliament passed the Law on greenhouse gas emissions monitoring
- Ukrainian authorities discourage decarbonization of industry
- A higher carbon tax is going to have a negative impact on Ukraine
- Ukraine to launch CO2 emissions monitoring in 2021
- MPs propose to raise the environmental tax fourfold
- Voestalpine will reduce CO2 emissions by 80% to 2050
- Liberty Steel wants to switch to carbon-neutral production by 2030
- Metinvest to invest $670 million in ecological modernization in 2019–2025
- The environmental duty will have a positive impact on the EU steel market
- Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol to invest another $20 million in envi...
- Global Market
- WSA: Ukraine cut steel production by 20% in November
- Steelmakers will reduce production by 36.5% in December 2019
- The situation in Ukraine’s key export markets sharply deteriorated in 2019
- Russia approved duties on Ukrainian galvanized steel
- Brazil extends anti-dumping duties on Ukrainian heavy plate
- The EEC extends the investigation into the imports of coil from Ukraine
- Ukraine is increasing imports of rolled products from Uzbekistan
- The U.S. and Ukraine will discuss abolition of steel duties
- Global steel demand will rise by 1.7% in 2020
- EU imposed safeguard measures against 12 categories of Ukrainian metal products
- Industry
- In 2019, Ukrainian steel producers reduced production by 1–2.5%
- Residential construction in Ukraine dropped by 7.5% in November
- Ukraine increased pipe production by 8.6% in November
- Ukraine’s industrial production declined by 7.5% in November
- Exports of ferrous metals fell by 11% over 11 months
- Ukraine’s mining & metals sector increased steel production by 0.4%
- ULIA predicts a drop in limestone consumption in 2020
- Ukraine’s iron ore exports grew by 7.57% in November
- Ukraine’s metals sector decreased steel production by 15.8% in November
- Capital investment in the steel industry grew by 34% in 9 months
- Infrastructure
- Ukraine’s housing construction grew by 2% in 10 months
- Construction metal prices dropped by 10.5% over 10 months
- The construction output in Ukraine increased by 20.5% over 9 months
- Problems with vessel calls in the Sea of Azov in August and September
- In January to August, production of railway cars in Ukraine grew by 5.8%
- In the first 7 months of 2019, cargo traffic along the Dnieper increased by 3...
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- The number of objects transferred for privatization reached 530
- The government delays VAT refund to steelmakers worth ₴2 billion
- Ukraine’s GDP in Q3 increased by 0.6% against Q2
- Ukraine’s investment attractiveness index is gradually improving
- Moody’s improved its forecast for the Ukraine’s ratings
- The government has already initiated privatization of 339 state-run companies
- The Parliament registered the draft law on the scrap market unshadowing
- The World Bank forecasts a 3.6% GDP growth in Ukraine in 2019
- Ukraine’s economy grew by 4.2% in Q3
- EBRD raises forecast for the economic growth in Ukraine for 2020 to 3.5%
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- The recession in foreign markets and revaluation inflicted losses on steelmakers
- Risks 2020: what steelmakers expect from the coming year
- Price review of the market of raw materials in the steel industry
- Falling sheet: price review of the flat products market
- Long products, low quotations: a review of the rebar market
- Pipe playing: how many steel products does the oil & gas industry consume?
- Two Ukrainian steel companies were left out of the game
- Domestic steel: Ukrainian steel consumption in H1 2019
- Income from waste: Ukraine can double slag processing and exports
- What Ukrainian shipbuilders produced in 6 months
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- Long products, low quotations: a review of the rebar market
- Two Ukrainian steel companies were left out of the game
- High iron ore prices boost exports of raw materials and rolled steel
- Russia introduces quotas for scrap exports: how will it affect Ukraine?
- Lower quotas, less steel: the EU steelmakers want tighter quotas
- Industry
- The recession in foreign markets and revaluation inflicted losses on steelmakers
- Risks 2020: what steelmakers expect from the coming year
- Price review of the market of raw materials in the steel industry
- Falling sheet: price review of the flat products market
- Pipe playing: how many steel products does the oil & gas industry consume?
- Domestic steel: Ukrainian steel consumption in H1 2019
- Income from waste: Ukraine can double slag processing and exports
- What Ukrainian shipbuilders produced in 6 months
- Ore path: steelmakers switched iron ore exports from Asia to Europe
- Weight of 1 square meter: how much and which steel is used in non-residential...
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- The TOP 6 risks for Ukraine’s steel industry in 2020
- On the verge. What is going on in Ukraine’s steel industry?
- The privatization is not a panacea
- Green steel production in Europe and in Ukraine
- What signals the Cabinet sent to the ukrainian business
- Why should Ukrainian steelmakers invest in development?
- The reverse side of revaluation
- What new EU quotas mean for Ukrainian steelmakers
- What Ukrainian steelmakers can expect in 2019
- Raw materials exports are not economically backward. When can export of semi-...
- Companies
- Ecology
- Global Market
- Industry
- The TOP 6 risks for Ukraine’s steel industry in 2020
- On the verge. What is going on in Ukraine’s steel industry?
- Why should Ukrainian steelmakers invest in development?
- The reverse side of revaluation
- What new EU quotas mean for Ukrainian steelmakers
- What Ukrainian steelmakers can expect in 2019
- Raw materials exports are not economically backward. When can export of semi-...
- A 10-year overview: is efficiency of Ukraine`s mining & metals sector rising?
- Why electric-arc steelmaking is not developed in Ukraine
- Back on full form: Ukraine’s casting industry is recovering
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- The global scrap market may shrink this year
- Consumers and shipment volumes of Ukrainian iron ore
- Capital investment in the mining & metals sector doubled in 5 years
- The industry recovers after a decline early this year
- How Ukraine’s steel industry resists global protectionism
- Environmental costs in the mining & metals sector grew by 25–30% in 2018
- The global market of hot-dip galvanized coils will continue to grow
- The situation in the ferroalloys market: production and exports
- The pace of growth in Ukraine’s construction sector increased
- Mining & metals companies increased their sales by 17% in 2018
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- Gabriel Sauer: «Business should invest in clean technology»
- Ugur Dalbeler: “There will be further production cuts in steel sector”
- Robert J. Mateer: “Steel will win out over aluminum in the automotive”
- Horst Wiesinger: “Professionalism becomes increasingly important”
- Kristian Yerygin: “Slags can and should be used in road construction”
- Rostislav Shurma: “Our production target for 2019 is 4.3 mln tonn of pig iron”
- Mykhaylo Volynets: “Soon there will be no one left to work in Ukraine”
- Philipp Englin: “200+ steel executives to expect in Milan, Oct 2019”
- Anatoliy Starovoyt: “Russia will soon re-authorize coal exports to Ukraine”
- Yuriy Ryzhenkov: “The competition in the market is growing”
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- ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih
- Pokrov GOK (Mining and Processing Plant)
- Marganets GOK (Mining and Processing Plant)
- Zaporizhzhia Iron Ore Plant
- Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Plant
- Ingulets GOK (Mining and Processing Plant)
- Central GOK (Mining and Processing Plant)
- Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant
- Zaporizhzhia Coke Plant
- Yasynivka Coke Plant
- Coke
- Ferroalloys
- Flats
- Iron Ore
- ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih
- Pokrov GOK (Mining and Processing Plant)
- Marganets GOK (Mining and Processing Plant)
- Zaporizhzhia Iron Ore Plant
- Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Plant
- Ingulets GOK (Mining and Processing Plant)
- Central GOK (Mining and Processing Plant)
- Ferrexpo Poltava Mining
- Sukha Balka GOK (Mining and Processing Plant)
- Northern GOK (Mining and Processing Plant)
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