In January-July of the current year, Evraz DMZ Petrovskogo, located in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, an integrated steel mill specializing in the manufacture and sale of pig iron, steel and rolled products, saw a four percent decrease year on year in its crude steel production to 509,000 mt and a seven percent decrease in its finished steel production to 440,000 mt.
In the first seven months of 2011, ore enrichment plant Evraz Sukha Balka, one of the leading Ukrainian enterprises specializing in iron ore underground mining, increased its iron ore production by 46 percent year on year to 1.335 million mt.
Meanwhile, the coke production of Evraz companies, Evraz Bagliykoks, Dneprokoks and Evraz Dneprodzerzhinsky Coke and Chemical Plant (Evraz DKHZ), decreased by eight percent in January-July this year compared to the same period of last year, falling to 1.022 million mt.