In the January-November period this year, Ukraine-based steelmaker Azovstal, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, saw a 19.4 percent decrease in its crude steel production to 3.33 million mt and a 24.5 percent decline in its rolled steel production to 3.02 million mt, both year on year. In the given period, Azovstal's pig iron output declined by 18 percent year on year to 2.92 million mt. Sinter was not produced due to the halt of production operations in the sinter shop.
In November this year, Azovstal produced 259,000 mt of finished steel products, 286,000 mt of crude steel and 241,000 mt of pig iron.