During the first half of 2009, the largest Ukrainian ferroalloy producer Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NZF) recorded a 60.1 percent decline in its output to 211,500 mt, compared to the same period last year.
During the first six months of the current year NZF produced only silicomanganese and ferromanganese. In H1 2009, NZF's silicomanganese output went down by 44.8 percent year on year, while its ferromanganese production decreased by 91.2 percent year on year, to196,100 mt and 15,400 mt respectively.
On July 1, 2009, NZF reached almost 100 percent production capacity utilization, and in the current month is targeting an output of over 55,000 mt of ferroalloys.
NZF's production capacities allow it to produce one million mt of silicomanganese per year, 250,000 mt per year of high carbon ferromanganese, and more than 15,000 mt per year of medium carbon ferromanganese.