ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih, Ukraine-based subsidiary of the world's largest integrated metals and mining company ArcelorMittal, has announced that, due to technical issues, in January this year it saw a year-on-year decrease in outputs, producing 447,300 mt of crude steel - down 16 percent, 389,900 mt of pig iron - down 16 percent, and 422,200 mt of rolled steel products - down 7.2 percent, all compared to January 2010.
"In January, the production cutback in pig iron was caused by an agglomerate production cutback due to the overhaul repairs of two sinter machines. In return, the insufficient quantity of pig iron was followed by low production of steel and rolled steel products. One of the repairs was finished in January and in February it allows us to increase production of agglomerate and other types of products," ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih's chief operations officer Aleksandr Ioskov commented.