Dnipro Metallurgical Plant (DMZ), a part of DCH Steel of businessman Aleksandr Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group, cut rolled steel production by 51.8% year-on-year to 33.8 thousand tons in January-July this year.
According to information in the corporate newspaper DCH Steel on Thursday, in July, the company did not produce rolled metal, but rolling shops shipped to customers more than 1.5 thousand tons of rolled products produced in previous periods. In July 2023, the company produced 13.3 thousand tons of rolled metal products.
At the same time, coke production in the first seven months of 2024 decreased by 1.6% to 169.6 thousand tons. In July 2024, coke production increased by 7.2% month-on-month to 26.1 thousand tons. In July 2023, the company produced 30.4 thousand tons of coke.
“Rolling shop No. 1 is currently being prepared for launch, where R-34 and R-43 rails will be produced during the production campaign,” the company said in a statement.
As reported, in 2023, DMZ increased its rolled metal output by 86.2% compared to 2022, up to 105.6 thousand tons, and coke output by 38.5%, up to 292.7 thousand tons.
In 2022, the plant reduced rolled steel production by 74.2% compared to 2021, to 58.4 thousand tons, and coke production by 56.3%, to 211.3 thousand tons.
DMZ specializes in the production of steel, pig iron, rolled products and products made from them.
On March 1, 2018, DCH Group signed an agreement to buy Dnipro Metallurgical Plant from Evraz.
Import changes in % to previous period up to apr 2024
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The international chain JYSK opened a new store in Ivano-Frankivsk on Thursday in the Veles Mall (225a Vovchynetska Street), the retailer’s press service reported.
“The store is located on the ground floor next to the bomb shelter and is provided with alternative power sources,” said JYSK Country Director in Ukraine Yevhen Ivanitsa, emphasizing the priority in terms of safe shopping.
The store implements the modern JYSK 3.0 concept, with a selling area of 1,038 square meters, warehouse space of 388 square meters, and 40.85 square meters of office space.
This is the third JYSK store in Ivano-Frankivsk and 98 in Ukraine. In the financial year 2025, which starts in September, the chain plans to open 8 more new stores and renovate 12 existing ones. JYSK in Ukraine has more than 800 employees.
JYSK is part of the family-owned Lars Larsen Group with more than 3.4 thousand stores in 48 countries. JYSK’s revenue in the financial year 2022/23 amounted to EUR 5.2 billion.
In January-July this year, Ukraine increased exports of carbon steel semi-finished products in physical terms by 68.1% year-on-year to 1 million 107.341 thousand tons.
According to statistics released by the State Customs Service (SCS) on Friday, exports of carbon steel semi-finished products increased by 55.1% to $549.282 million in monetary terms.
The main exports were to Bulgaria (34.90% of supplies in monetary terms), Egypt (13.19%) and Poland (9.82%).
In January-July 2024, Ukraine imported 5 tons of semi-finished products from Egypt for $5 thousand, while in January-July 2023 it imported 92 tons of semi-finished products for $169 thousand.
As reported, in 2023, Ukraine decreased exports of carbon steel semi-finished products in physical terms by 36.7% compared to 2022, to 1 million 203.454 thousand tons, while exports in monetary terms decreased by 48.9% to $608.516 million. The main exports were made to Bulgaria (36.66% of supplies in monetary terms), Poland (23.01%), and Italy (9.60%).
In addition, in 2023, Ukraine imported 96 tons of semi-finished products from China (98.26%) and Turkey (1.74%) for $172 thousand.
In January-July this year, Ukrainian companies increased imports of copper and copper products in value terms by 26.6% year-on-year to $85.210 million.
According to customs statistics released by the State Customs Service of Ukraine on Friday, exports of copper and copper products increased by 12% to $49.199 million over the period under review.
In July, copper was imported for $10.103 million and exported for $7.644 million.
In addition, in January-July 2024, Ukraine increased imports of nickel and products by 2 times compared to the same period in 2023 – up to $16.980 million (in July – $4.026 million), aluminum and aluminum products – by 21.8%, up to $250.075 million (in July – $41.276 million).
At the same time, the country reduced imports of lead and lead products by 14.4% to $610 thousand (in July – $50 thousand), imports of tin and tin products increased by 7.8% to $1.536 million (in July – $185 thousand), and increased imports of zinc and zinc products by 35.4% to $33.361 million (in July – $5.011 million).
Exports of aluminum and aluminum products in the first seven months of 2024 increased by 16.8% compared to the same period a year earlier to $64.382 million (in July – $10.207 million), lead and lead products decreased by 27.8% to $6.492 million (in July – $1.089 million), nickel and nickel products amounted to $423 thousand (in July it was absent), while in January-July 2023 it was $126 thousand.
Zinc exports for the first seven months of this year amounted to $120 thousand (in July – $21 thousand), while in January-July 2023 it was $86 thousand. Exports of tin and products amounted to $331 thousand (in July – $150 thousand) against $53 thousand in the same period a year earlier.
As reported, in 2023, Ukraine increased imports of copper and copper products by 2.2 times compared to 2022 – up to $140.795 million, while exports decreased by 20.1% to $72.078 million.
In addition, in 2023, Ukraine decreased imports of nickel and products by 74.2% compared to 2022, to $15.391 million, and increased imports of aluminum and aluminum products by 7.7%, to $366.463 million.
At the same time, it reduced imports of lead and lead products by 65.2% to $989 thousand, imports of tin and tin products by 23% to $2.728 million, but increased imports of zinc and zinc products by 18.8% to $45.966 million.
Exports of aluminum and aluminum products last year increased by 0.7% compared to 2022 to $97.616 million, lead and lead products increased by 23.5% to $14.778 million, and nickel and nickel products amounted to $532 thousand, while in 2022 it was $1.268 million.
In 2023, the company exported $130 thousand worth of zinc, compared to $1.331 million in 2022. Exports of tin and tin products amounted to $159 thousand against $424 thousand in 2022.
Optima School is planning to open online and offline education hubs in Ukraine and abroad, its founder Roberts Weishla said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Thursday.
“Now our goal is to open hubs of mixed offline and online education in Ukraine and not only in Ukraine, where children will be able to study not only remotely but also in person. Additional classes, clubs, etc. will be introduced there to make it interesting,” said Vaischla.
He noted that Optima planned to open an offline learning space last year by building Ukraine’s first blended learning school. However, according to him, a legal dispute over the land plot on which the school was planned to be built is ongoing.
“The school purchased a plot of land for construction, and now there is a court case going on. And we don’t know what will happen to this project. As a citizen of another country, I don’t really understand the arguments that the government agencies used to suspend our work,” Vaisla added.
For her part, Optima School director Olga Bilodid said that the school will open an educational hub in Kyiv.
“It may not be an Optima space, and it will be much smaller, but the idea will be realized, and such a space will start in Kyiv,” said Bilodid.
According to her, the hubs will offer courses aimed at the practical component.
“If it is language or literature, there will be classes in journalism and public speaking, if it is chemistry and physics, there will be laboratories. If it is, for example, a foreign language, it will be discussion clubs. That is, we want to give our children more practice,” explained Bilodid.
Optima School was established and licensed in 2015. The school currently has 20 thousand students.
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