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Business news from Ukraine

“Zaporozhkoks” cuts coke production by 1.8% in January-April

2 May , 2025  

Zaporozhkoks, one of Ukraine’s largest coke producers and a member of Metinvest Group, reduced blast furnace coke production by 1.8% year-on-year to 281.8 thousand tons from 286.9 thousand tons in January-April this year.

According to the company, in April, it produced 72.06 thousand tons of coke, while in the previous month – 74.1 thousand tons, in April-2024 – 72.15 thousand tons.

As reported, Zaporozhkoks increased its blast furnace coke production by 2.1% in 2024 compared to 2023, up to 874.7 thousand tons from 856.8 thousand tons.

“In 2023, Zaporozhkoks increased its blast furnace coke output by 16% compared to 2022, up to 856.8 thousand tons from 737.4 thousand tons.

“Zaporozhkoks produces about 10% of coke in Ukraine and has a full technological cycle of coke products processing. It also produces coke oven 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%), which jointly manage the company.

Metinvest Holding LLC is the management company of Metinvest Group.

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