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“Zaporozhkoks” cuts coke production by 3% to 210 thousand tons

6 April , 2025  

Zaporozhkoks, one of Ukraine’s largest coke producers and a member of Metinvest Group, reduced its blast furnace coke production by 3% year-on-year to 209.7 thousand tons from 214.8 thousand tons in January-March this year.

According to the company, it produced 74.1 thousand tons of coke in March, while in the previous month it produced 61.2 thousand tons.

As reported, Zaporozhkoks increased its blast furnace coke production by 2.1% in 2024 compared to 2023 – to 874.7 thousand tons from 856.8 thousand tons.

“In 2023, Zaporozhkoks increased its blast furnace coke output by 16% compared to 2022, up to 856.8 thousand tons from 737.4 thousand tons.

“Zaporozhkoks produces about 10% of coke in Ukraine and has a full technological cycle of coke products processing. 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.

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