Mittal Steel Kriviy Rih to raise domestic sales in 2007

Mittal Steel Kriviy Rih, the Ukrainian subsidiary of the world's largest steel producer Mittal Steel, intends to raise its sales in the Ukrainian domestic market to 1.5 million metric tons in 2007. The mill's sales manager, Vladimir Shalimov, has remarked that, in the January-September 2006 period alone, Mittal Steel Kriviy Rih raised its sales by 4 percent year on year to 1.052 million metric tons.