Russian pig iron and coking coal producer KOKS Group has announced it operational results for the first nine months of 2013.
During the January-September period, KOKS produced 1.538 million mt of pig iron, down three percent compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. In the given period, the company's coal output increased by two percent year on year to 1.180 million mt, while its iron ore output amounted to 3.576 million mt, up one percent compared to the same period of 2012. In the first nine months of this year, KOKS Group's coke output decreased by six percent to 1.850 million mt compared to January-September 2012.