In its financial results according to according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the full year of 2015, Russian steelmaker NLMK Group's net profit increased by 25 percent year on year to $967 million. The company's sales revenues amounted to $8 billion, down 23 percent year on year, due to lower steel prices. In the same year, NLMK Group's EBITDA decreased by 18 percent to $1.94 billion, while EBITDA margin increased by one percentage points to 24 percent, both year-on-year basis.
In 2015, NLMK Group's sales volume increased by five percent year on year to 15.9 million mt supported by high utilization rates at its Russian assets.
NLMK Group stated that in the given year the deteriorating economic situation in Russia had a negative impact on steel consumption in the local market where demand dropped by approximately nine percent year on year, due mainly to the slowdown in the construction and machine building sectors. Meanwhile, in the same year, the decrease in steel output at NLMK Russia Long Products and NLMK USA on the back of the market disruption was fully offset by the increase in productivity at the Lipetsk site.