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Ukraine raises output of ferroalloys by 0.9%, cuts manganese concentrate by 4.1% in Jan-July
KYIV. Aug 31 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ferroalloy enterprises of Ukraine in January-July of this year increased their production by 0.9% in total compared to the same period last year, to 498,690 tonnes, including 83,890 tonnes produced in July.
As the Ukrainian Association of Producers of Ferroalloys and Other Electrometallurgical Products told Interfax-Ukraine, in January-July 2021 production of silicon manganese at Zaporizhia and Nikopol Ferroalloy Plants increased by 3.5%, to 387,450 tonnes. At the same time, the total production of ferromanganese at three plants decreased by 26.3%, to 61,580 tonnes: Zaporizhia, Nikopol and Kramatorsk Ferroalloy Plants (Kramatorsk plant was idle in January-July 2021, while in the same period of 2020 it produced 34,090 tonnes).
In addition, in Ukraine, production of ferrosilicon (in terms of 45%) increased by 31.3%, to 45,850 tonnes, and metallic manganese – by 3 times, to 4,080 tonnes.
Pokrov (previously Ordzhonikidze) and Marhanets Mining and Processing Plants (both located in Dnipropetrovsk region) which extract and concentrate manganese ore, in January-July 2021 produced a total of 968,890 tonnes of manganese concentrate, which is 4.1% lower compared to January-July 2020. At the same time, Marhanets plant produced 312,080 tonnes of concentrate (a decrease of 1.1% compared to the same period in 2020), and Pokrov plant produced 656,810 tonnes (a decrease of 5.4%).
In January-July 2021, Pokrov Mining and Processing Plant also produced 170,540 tonnes of iron ore sinter (2.2 times more compared to the same period in 2020), supplying it to Dniprovsky Metallurgical Plant (DMZ), part of DCH Steel from DCH Group of businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky.
