Zaporozhkoks, one of Ukraine’s largest coke producers and a member of Metinvest Group, increased its blast furnace coke production by 4.3% year-on-year to 74.36 thousand tons from 71.32 thousand tons in January this year.
According to the company, it produced 74.2 thousand tons of coke in December.
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.