Mechel, a leading Russian integrated mining and steel group, reported its
production results for the first half of 2006.
According to the release, coal
production increased 8 percent to 8.1 million tons, including 9 percent increase in
coking coal production to 4.5 million tons and 6 percent increase in steam coal
production to 3.6 million tons, and
iron ore concentrate
production increased 8 percent to 2.4 million tons year on year in January-June of 2006.
In steel segment, the company's
production of rolled products decreased 6 percent to 2.27 million tons. In particular, flat rolled
production increased 26 percent to 192,000 tons, long products
production increased 2 percent to 1.22 million tons but semi-finished products
production decreased 20 percent to 869,000 tons during the period under the consideration.
In addition, crude steel
production decreased 7 percent to 2.9 million tons, that of
pig iron decreased 6 percent to 1.73 million tons and that of coke decreased 21 percent to 1.1 million tons.