DMKD restores normal operations following restart of gas supplies

Friday, 25 June 2010 16:49:25 (GMT+2)

The Ukrainian steel producer Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), is resuming its normal operation process following the restart on June 24 of gas supplies to the plant.

Accordingly, DMKD has normalized the operations at its steel smelting shop, as well as restarted its rolling shops and sintering plant.

On June 9 this year, Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz reduced gas supplies to DMKD as well as to Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol citing the debts of these companies, while from June 14 DMKD's supplies were completely stopped, following which the plant's blast furnaces were switched to gas-free mode. One of the plant's continuous billet casters was able to continue operating after the receipt of pig iron, while operations at the rolling shop and sinter plant were stopped.

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