Ferroalloy enterprises of Ukraine in January-September of this year increased their output by 12.5% in total compared to the same period last year, to 668,270 tonnes, including 80,650 tonnes produced in September.
As the Ukrainian Association of Producers of Ferroalloys and Other Electrometallurgical Products told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday, in January-September 2021, production of silicon manganese at Zaporizhia (ZFP) and Nikopol (NFP) Ferroalloy Plants increased by 16.6%, to 522,540 tonnes. At the same time, total production of ferromanganese at three plants decreased by 20.7%, to 78,270 tonnes: ZFP, NFP and Kramatorsk Ferroalloy Plant (Kramatorsk plant was idle in January-September 2021, while in the same period of 2020 it produced 34,090 tonnes).
In addition, in Ukraine, production of ferrosilicon (in terms of 45%) increased by 38.3%, to 62,060 tonnes, and metallic manganese – 2.44 times, to 5,400 tonnes.
Pokrov (previously Ordzhonikidze) and Marhanets Mining and Processing Plants (both located in Dnipropetrovsk region) which extract and concentrate manganese ore, in January-September 2021 produced a total of 1.274 million tonnes of manganese concentrate, which 6.6% lower compared to January-September 2020. At the same time, Marhanets Mining produced 418,290 tonnes of concentrate (a decrease by 0.5% compared to the same period in 2020), and Pokrov Mining – 855,870 tonnes (less by 9.3%).
In January-September 2021, Pokrov Mining and Processing Plant also produced 195,040 tonnes of iron ore sinter (up by 63.6% compared to the same period in 2020), supplying it to Dniprovsky Metallurgical Plant (DMZ), part of DCH Steel from DCH Group of businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky.
