In January-May 2025, Ukraine imported zinc and zinc products worth $21.319 million, down 8.1% compared to the same period in 2024. In May, imports amounted to $6.237 million.
Exports of zinc products increased to $523 thousand against $84 thousand in the first five months of 2024. In May 2025, $113 thousand were exported.
In 2024, zinc imports reached $58.610 million (+27.5% compared to 2023), while exports amounted to $563 thousand. In 2023, imports were $45.966 million and exports were $130 thousand.
Zaporozhkoks, one of Ukraine’s largest coke and chemical producers and a member of Metinvest Group, reduced blast furnace coke production by 0.3% year-on-year to 434.1 thousand tons from 435.3 thousand tons in January-June this year.
According to the company, it produced 76.3 thousand tons of coke in June, compared to 76 thousand tons in the previous month.
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 production by 16% compared to 2022, up to 856.8 thousand tons from 737.4 thousand tons.
“Zaporozhkoks has a full technological cycle of processing coke products.
“Metinvest is a vertically integrated mining group of companies. Its major shareholders are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%). Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest Group.
Global coffee bean production in the 2025/2026 agricultural season will increase by 2.5% to reach a record 178.68 million bags (60 kg each), according to a report by the US Department of Agriculture.
At the same time, the arabica harvest will decrease by 1.7% to 97.02 million bags, while robusta will increase by 7.9% to 81.66 million bags.
Due to the increase in production, global carryover stocks will increase by 4.9% to 22.82 million bags by the end of the season.
“During the current week, coffee prices fell, in particular for Arabica fell to a 5.5-month low amid reports of improved weather conditions in the Brazilian coffee-growing states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais,” the report said.
As reported, at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, the world market saw a high growth in coffee prices. Thus, in February, coffee prices doubled in annual terms. In particular, this was due to the fact that traders were worried about the prospect of insufficient supplies from Brazil, which is the largest producer of Arabica coffee.
In Ukraine, in June 2025, milk in film, kefir in tetrapak and glass, cottage cheese and Suluguni cheese fell in price, while other dairy products rose in price, the Association of Milk Producers (AMP) reported.
The industry association noted that pasteurized milk with a fat content of up to 2.6% in the film in June 2025 averaged 45.65 UAH/kg, which is 75 kopecks (-2%) less than in the previous month, but 6.48 UAH (+17%) more than in the same period last year.
Pasteurized milk with a fat content of up to 2.6% in a plastic bottle averaged 63.81 UAH/kg, which is 21 kopecks (+0.3%) more than in May and 12.29 UAH/kg (+24%) more than in June 2024. Kefir with a fat content of 2.5% in the film cost an average of 55.54 UAH/kg, which is 37 kopecks (+1%) more than a month ago and 7.98 UAH (+17%) compared to last June.
Sour cream with a fat content of 15% in glasses averaged 191.13 UAH/kg, which is 4.04 UAH (+2%) more than in the previous month and 51.17 UAH/kg (+37%) compared to the same period last year.
The average price for drinking yogurt from 1.6% to 2.8% in plastic bottles amounted to UAH 116.44/kg and was UAH 2.15 (+1.9%) higher than in May and UAH 23.24 (+25%) higher than a year ago.
The average price for cottage cheese with a fat content of 9% was UAH 279.80/kg and was UAH 7.39 (-3%) lower than the average price of the previous month, but UAH 56.50 (+25%) higher than the price in June last year.
Domestically produced butter with a fat content of 72.5% to 73% costs an average of UAH 584.82 per kg, which is UAH 11.18 (+1.9%) more than in the previous month and UAH 162.63 (+39%) more than a year ago.
Dutch cheese with a fat content of 45% averaged 590.64 UAH/kg. Compared to the previous month, the product went up by UAH 12.77 (+2%), and compared to the previous year, it went up by UAH 139.41 (+31%).
The average price of Gouda cheese with 45% fat content from Ukrainian companies averaged 593.14 UAH/kg, exceeding the price of the previous month by 5.74 UAH (+1%), and last June by 131.50 UAH (+28%).
Over the past month, prices for pasteurized milk with a fat content of up to 2.6% in film, kefir with a fat content of 2.5% in tetrapak and glass, cottage cheese with a fat content of 9%, and Suluguni cheese have fallen in Ukraine. Prices for other dairy products in the consumer basket either remained unchanged or went up by 2.9% on average, said AVM analyst Giorgi Kukhaleishvili, quoted in the report.
He noted that butter is rising in price following high global commodity prices. In particular, the price of butter in the EU in May was at the level of EUR7200-7400 per ton, which is almost a record high that has not been recorded since 2017-2018.
Increased supply and consumption of imported cheeses in the domestic market hampers sales of domestic cheese producers. The share of imported cheeses in the domestic market reached 47%, the association stated.
According to the results of 2024 and the first quarter of 2025, IMC (Industrial Milk Company) is in good financial condition, intends to reduce its debt below $20 million by the end of the year and will return to paying dividends, IMC CEO Alexander Verzhikhovsky said in an interview with the Polish edition of parkiet.com.
He noted that as of the end of March 2025, IMC had $44.7 million in cash and cash equivalents, which is 73% more than a year earlier. This allows the agricultural holding to reduce its financial debt as planned.
According to the CEO of the agricultural holding, IMC’s debt as of the end of 2024 amounted to more than $23 million, compared to $46 million at the end of 2023.
“This year, we are striving to further reduce our debt and plan to bring it down to below $20 million. At the same time, we have returned to paying dividends and are working to share our profits with shareholders in the form of significant dividends next year,” the IMC CEO emphasized.
In addition, he said that in March 2025, IMC completed investments in its own rolling stock. In total, since 2024, the company has invested about $22 million in the purchase of a fleet of 300 grain carriers.
Verzhykhovsky explained that owning grain cars allows the agricultural holding to largely abandon the use of leased cars for grain transportation to ports. “Currently, IMC can transport up to 80% of our annual grain production with its own railcars.
In addition, in 2024, the agricultural holding invested heavily in the renewal and modernization of its fleet, which directly affects the production processes related to soil preparation, sowing campaign, their efficiency and optimization of operations.
“IMC intends to maintain annual investments in equipment, technology and infrastructure modernization at the level of $10-12 million. The company does not plan to issue shares or increase debt. Investments will be made at the expense of own funds,” summarized IMC CEO.
IMC Agroholding is an integrated group of companies operating in Sumy, Poltava and Chernihiv regions (north and center of Ukraine) in the crop production, elevators and warehouses segments. The land bank is 116 thousand hectares, storage capacity is 554 thousand tons, with a harvest of 864 thousand tons in 2024.
IMC ended 2024 with a net profit of $54.54 million compared to a net loss of $21.03 million in 2023. Revenue increased by 52% to $211.29 million, gross profit quadrupled to $109.10 million, and normalized EBITDA increased 25 times to $86.11 million.
State-owned PrivatBank (Kyiv) will put up for sale its “bad” loans totaling UAH 5.2 billion through the SE SETAM platform, which will be open for bidding until July 30, 2025.
“PrivatBank offers professional market participants to register on the platform of the electronic trading system of the Ministry of Justice OpenMarket of SE SETAM until July 30, 2025 to acquire claims on a portfolio of consumer loans to individuals with a total debt of UAH 5.2 billion, which is the initial (starting) price of the lot,” the bank said on its website on Monday.
It is noted that the portfolio includes only the loan principal and accrued interest. The auction will be held in several stages: automatic gradual reduction of the starting price of the lot, submission of closed bids and open bids. The minimum selling price of a lot is 1.2% of the starting price.
According to the National Bank of Ukraine, as of April 1, 2025, PrivatBank ranked first in terms of total assets – UAH 945.4 billion, or 25.2% among 60 banks.
As reported, in 2025, PrivatBank had to put up for sale a portfolio of bad loans to individuals totaling more than UAH 5 billion.
