The coke-chemical division of the Kametstal plant of the Metinvest mining and metallurgical group (former Dneprovsky Coke Plant, DKHZ, Kamenskoye, Dnepropetrovsk Region) reduced the production of metallurgical coke by 32.4% in January-July this year compared to with the same period last year – up to 227.3 thousand tons.
As a representative of the company told the Interfax-Ukraine agency, in July the enterprise produced 25.8 thousand tons of metallurgical coke.
At the same time, in January-July 2022, the output of 6% moisture gross coke amounted to 263.1 thousand tons, including 30 thousand tons in July.
The plant produced 336 thousand tons of coke in seven months-2021, including 48 thousand tons in July-2021.
During the specified period, the enterprise was supplied with 266.5 thousand tons of domestic coal, 36 thousand tons from Russia (before the war) and 54 thousand tons from the USA. In July, 37,000 tons of domestically produced coking coal were delivered.
As reported, in January-July this year, Ukrainian Coke Plants reduced the production of 6% moisture gross coke by 53.4% compared to the same period last year – to 2.682 million tons, in July 224.4 thousand tons were produced. Including for 7 months-2022, the production of metallurgical coke amounted to 2.3 million tons, in July – 191.8 thousand tons.
Ukraine in 2021 reduced the production of coke by 1.3% compared to 2020 – to 9.543 million tons.
Kametstal was created on the basis of PJSC “Dneprovsky Coke and Chemical Plant” (DKKHZ) and the CEC of PJSC “Dneprovsky Metallurgical Plant” (DMK).
According to the report of the parent company of the Metinvest group for 2020, Metinvest B.V. (Netherlands) owned 100% of the shares of DKHZ.
