Zaporozhkoks, one of Ukraine’s largest coke and chemical producers and a member of Metinvest Group, increased its blast furnace coke production by 19.5% year-on-year to 715.1 thousand tons from 598.6 thousand tons in January-October this year.
According to the company, in October 2023, it produced 72.6 thousand tons of blast furnace coke, while in October 2022 – 70.6 thousand tons (an increase of 2.8%).
“In 2022, Zaporozhkoks reduced blast furnace coke production by 11.9% compared to 2021 to 737.4 thousand tons, including 70.8 thousand tons of coke produced in December.
“Zaporozhkoks produces about 10% of coke in Ukraine and has a full technological cycle of processing coke products. It also produces coke oven gas and pitch coke.
“Metinvest is a vertically integrated mining group of companies. Its major shareholders are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%), which jointly manage the company.
Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest Group.