In the January-September period this year, Ukraine-based steelmaker Azovstal, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, saw a 20.1 percent decrease in its crude steel production to 2.740 million mt and a 23.3 percent decline in its rolled steel production to 2.417 million mt, both year on year. In the given period, Azovstal's pig iron output declined by 18.8 percent year on year to 2.405 million mt. The enterprise did not produced agglomerate due to the closure of its agglomeration plant.
In September this year, Azovstal produced 167,000 mt of finished steel products, 219,000 mt of crude steel and 189,000 mt of pig iron.