Dnipro Metallurgical Plant (DMZ), a part of DCH Steel of businessman Aleksandr Yaroslavsky’s DCH group, cut rolled steel production by 64.2% year-on-year to 487 tons in January this year.
According to information in the corporate newspaper DCH Steel on Thursday, coke production in January 2025 decreased by 16.6% to 18.9 thousand tons, while in December 2024, 23 thousand tons were produced.
The company did not produce any steel products in December 2014, while in November it produced 7.1 thousand tons of rolled steel.
“In January-February, Rolling Shop No. 2 will produce 7.1 thousand tons of steel products during the rolling campaign. The campaign is scheduled to be completed by the end of the week. Last month, the plant shipped 948 tons of rolled metal products to consumers, including the volumes of Rolling Shop No. 1, and all the coke produced,” the information states, adding that the rolling campaign started on January 31.
As reported, in 2024, DMZ reduced its rolled steel production by 59.4% compared to 2023, to 42.9 thousand tons, and coke by 1.2%, to 289.1 thousand tons.
In 2023, DMZ increased its rolled steel output by 86.2% compared to 2022, to 105.6 thousand tons, and coke by 38.5%, to 292.7 thousand tons.
In 2022, the plant reduced its 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.
In 2024, Agrotrade harvested more than 236 thsd tonnes of grains and oilseeds, the company’s press service reported on Facebook.
According to the report, the harvest of wheat amounted to 95.5 thousand tons, corn – 53 thousand tons, winter rapeseed – 38.3 thousand tons, sunflower – 36.6 thousand tons, soybeans – about 13 thousand tons, hemp – 96 tons, barley – 78 tons.
“This year, soybeans suffered the biggest yield losses, in particular, due to drought. In general, abnormal weather conditions affected all crops, but we are satisfied with the results of the season. Rapeseed and corn even outperformed the forecasts, while sunflower and wheat yields remained within the plan,” said Oleksandr Ovsyanyk, Director of Agrotrade’s Agricultural Department.
The agricultural holding is confident that due to effective management, adaptation of technologies and professionalism, it will be able to maintain stable positions in the agricultural market.
Agrotrade Group is a vertically integrated holding company with a full agro-industrial cycle (production, processing, storage and trade of agricultural products). It cultivates over 70 thousand hectares of land in Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv regions. Its main crops are sunflower, corn, winter wheat, soybeans and rapeseed. It has its own network of elevators with a one-time storage capacity of 570 thousand tons.
The group also produces hybrid seeds of corn and sunflower, barley, and winter wheat. In 2014, a seed plant with a capacity of 20 thousand tons of seeds per year was built on the basis of Kolos seed farm (Kharkiv region). In 2018, Agrotrade launched its own brand Agroseeds on the market.
The founder of Agrotrade is Vsevolod Kozhemiako.
In January 2025, Express Insurance (Kyiv) collected UAH 61.7 million in insurance premiums for voluntary motor insurance, which is UAH 14 million, or 29.2%, more than in 2024, the insurer’s website reports. In addition, according to the website, premiums for compulsory motor third-party liability insurance amounted to UAH 38.2 million, which is UAH 28.5 million, or almost four times more than in January 2024.
As for other types of insurance, the company collected UAH 2.7 million in January.
In total, in the first month of the year, the insurer collected UAH 102.6 million in premiums, which is 71.9% more than in January 2024.
In January, the company reportedly paid out more than UAH 34.4 million, which is 17% more than in the same period of 2024. In particular, payments under hull insurance amounted to UAH 27 million (+5.3%), under MTPL – UAH 6.8 million (2.4 times more), payments under other insurance contracts – UAH 660 thousand.
“The increase in MTPL payments is a direct result of customer confidence in the company and an increase in the number of contracts concluded,” the statement said.
Express Insurance ALC was founded in 2008 and is part of the UkrAVTO group of companies. The company specializes in automobile insurance. The consistently high speed of claims settlement in the IC is ensured by optimal interaction with partner service stations.
Since April 2012, Express Insurance has been an associate member of the Motor Transport Insurance Bureau of Ukraine.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has adjusted its forecast for Ukraine’s wheat exports for the 2024/25 marketing year (MY, July 2024-June 2025) and lowered it by 0.5 million tons to 15.5 million tons, and corn by 1 million tons to 22 million tons.
The updated USDA forecast for February indicates that in 2024/25 MY wheat and corn production in Ukraine will remain at 22.9 mln tonnes and 26.5 mln tonnes, respectively.
At the same time, a slight increase in wheat production and consumption is expected, however, according to USDA, trade volumes and ending stocks will be lower. Accordingly, the forecast for global wheat production was increased by 0.6 million tons to 793.8 million tons, due to increased production in Kazakhstan (+0.6 million tons, to 18.6 million tons) and Argentina (+0.2 million tons, to 17.7 million tons).
Global wheat consumption will also increase by 1.8 mln tonnes to 803.7 mln tonnes due to higher use of feed grains and transitional residues in the EU, Kazakhstan, Thailand and Ukraine.
At the same time, the global wheat trade will decrease by 3 million tons to 209 million tons due to the decline in exports by the EU (-1.0 million tons, to 28.0 million tons), Mexico, Russia (-0.5 million tons, to 45.5 million tons), Turkey and Ukraine (-0.5 million tons, to 15.5 million tons). The largest reduction is expected in China – by 2.5 million tons, to 8.0 million tons, which will be the lowest imports in the last five years, although last year this country was the world’s leading supplier of wheat.
The same picture is expected for the world ending stocks in 2024/25 MY, which, according to the updated forecast, will decrease by 1.3 mln tonnes to 257.6 mln tonnes, due to the reduction in China, partially offset by the increase in stocks in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
In 2024/25 MY, the global corn market is expected to decline in all indicators. The global corn production is expected to decline by 1.9 mln tonnes to 1 bln 212.5 mln tonnes, mainly due to Argentina (-1.0 mln tonnes, to 50.0 mln tonnes) due to lower yields as a result of heat and Brazil (-1.0 mln tonnes, to 126.0 mln tonnes) and slow sowing.
The main changes in the world corn trade are related to the decrease in the forecasted corn exports from Brazil (-1.0 million tons, to 46.0 million tons), Ukraine (-1.0 million tons, to 22.0 million tons) and South Africa. External ending stocks of corn for 2024/25 MY were reduced by 3 million tons to 290.3 million tons.
Since February 2022, DTEK Energy’s coal mining, energy and machine-building enterprises have provided jobs for more than 3.8 thousand internally displaced people.
As the company said in a press release on Wednesday, more than 80% of those employed joined DTEK Energy’s coal mining companies. Most of them did not have a mining specialty and were retrained on the job. There are also many young people among the new employees who got their first job at Ukrainian mines.
“As a reliable partner and responsible employer, we systematically support the communities of the regions where our enterprises are located. We are always ready to accommodate people who have been forced to move,” said DTEK Energy CEO Aleksandr Fomenko.
“DTEK Energy provides a closed cycle of electricity generation from coal. As of January 2022, the company’s installed capacity in thermal generation amounted to 13.3 GW. The company has established a full production cycle in coal mining: coal mining and enrichment, mechanical engineering, and maintenance of mine equipment.
Currently, most of DTEK Group’s thermal generation facilities have been destroyed as a result of Russian attacks.
OKKO Group has begun construction of the first hotel complex of the GORO Mountain Resort in the Lviv Carpathians, the company’s press service reports.
“The construction of the first hotel complex is a strategically important stage in the implementation of the holistic concept of an international all-season resort. According to the master plan developed jointly with Austrian experts, a balanced combination of mountain, ski, hotel and entertainment infrastructure will help increase the length of guests’ stay, which will have a positive economic effect for the entire region,” said Vasyl Danyliak, CEO of OKKO Group and co-founder of GORO Mountain Resort.
The first complex includes three 415-room designer hotels with a total area of 48 thousand square meters, of which 11 thousand square meters are allocated for commercial and entertainment infrastructure, and construction of the first one has begun, the press service ofInterfax-Ukraine said.
OKKO Group started construction of a large-scale recreational project GORO Mountain Resort in October 2024. The total area of the future resort is almost 1.2 thousand hectares, of which 360 hectares are planned for mountain and ski infrastructure, and more than 800 hectares for the development of hotel, commercial and recreational facilities.
GORO Development, an investment and development company that is part of OKKO Group, is engaged in the sale of the resort’s hotel real estate. It is responsible for the development of architectural concepts, construction, functional and recreational content, as well as attracting investments in the hotel business.
Over the next 15 years, GORO Development plans to build 25 hotels with 5,150 rooms at the resort. The first phase on a 127-hectare plot near the village of Volosyanka, 5 km from the village of Slavsko in Lviv region, will include five hotel complexes, a total of nine hotels with 1100+ rooms, and is scheduled to be completed in 2028-2029.
In addition to hotels, it is also planned to build 41 75 km long ski slopes with 342 hectares of snow, two modern gondola lifts and 11 chair lifts, as well as Welcome and Mountain centers.
“GORO will become one of the largest recreational and infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, which will affect the country’s position in the European tourism arena,” Danyliak said.
As reported, in December 2024, the project received a long-term loan from FUIB for 10 years to implement key ski infrastructure facilities, including the Welcome Center, the lower station of the gondola cable car, and a multi-level parking lot, which are already under construction.
The total investment in GORO Mountain Resort is estimated at $1.5 billion. Of this amount, OKKO Group plans to invest $500 million at the expense of its own and credit funds, and another $1 billion is planned to be raised from other investors.
OKKO Group in GORO Mountain Resort acts as the sole owner, major investor, master developer, developer and operator to ensure the harmonious development and holistic concept of the all-season recreational project. OKKO Group has engaged world-class Austrian experts to create an international format: PKF Hospitality (investment analysis and concept), ILF Group (master plan and ski infrastructure) and Doppelmayr/Garaventa Gruppe (design of the lift system and cable cars).
OKKO Group unites more than 10 diversified businesses in manufacturing, trade, construction, insurance, maintenance, and other services. The flagship company of the group is Galnaftogaz, which operates one of the largest filling stations in Ukraine under the OKKO brand, with about 400 filling stations.
The group’s founder and ultimate beneficiary is Vitaliy Antonov.
