Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has announced that in the first quarter of the current year its crude steel production decreased by 11 percent year on year to 2.755 million mt. In addition, in the given period, Metinvest also produced 2.979 million mt of rolled steel, up four percent year on year, while its production of pig iron increased by three percent year on year to 2.796 million mt.
In the first quarter this year, the coking coal production of Metinvest decreased by 1.39 percent year on year to 2.537 million mt, while the company produced 8.820 million mt of iron ore concentrate, decreasing by 5.41 percent compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous year.