PJSC “Zaporozhkoks”, one of the largest Ukrainian producers of coke products and being a part of “Metinvest” group, in January-May this year increased the production of blast-furnace coke by 37.9% in comparison with the same period last year – up to 355.7 thousand tons from 258 thousand tons.
According to the company data, in May-2023 it produced 73.1 thousand tons of blast-furnace coke, compared to 68 thousand tons in May-2022 (7.5% increase).
As it was reported Zaporizhkoks in January-April 2023 increased blast furnace coke output by 48.7% y-o-y, to 282.6 thousand tons from 190 thousand tons. In April-2023 71.3 thousand tons of blast-furnace coke was produced, compared to 52.7 thousand tons in April-2022 (35.4% increase).
“Zaporizhkoks” in 2022 reduced the production of blast-furnace coke by 11.9% compared to 2021 – to 737.4 thousand tons, including 70.8 coke produced in December.
“Zaporizhkoks” produces about 10% of coke produced in Ukraine, owns a full technological cycle of processing of coke products. It also produces coke gas and pitch coke.
“Metinvest is a vertically integrated mining group of companies. Its major shareholders are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Holding (23.76%) that jointly manage the company.
Metinvest Holding LLC is the managing company of Metinvest group.