Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated steelmaking company Metinvest has announced that its subsidiary Ilyich Iron & Steel Works of Mariupol's cold rolling shop has manufactured a trial lot of 1.5 mm thick high-strength galvanized coils from S350GD steel grade according to European standard EN 10346. Production of S320GD galvanized steel grade was launched a few months ago.
Accordingly, Metinvest can provide a wide range of galvanized products that are in demand for the production of formed sections for light steel thin-walled structures in Europe, the CIS and the Middle East.
Ilyich's new type of galvanized steel is planned to be supplied both to the domestic market of Ukraine, where previously only imported products were available, and to Metinvest's customers abroad. The first lot of S350GD material has been shipped to customers in the CIS.