Ukraine retains positions in world steel rating

"Ukraine ranks 10th among 40 pig iron producing countries. [...] Ukraine ranks 13th among 62 steel producing countries," the Ukrmetalurgprom Association reported.

According to worldsteel, 1.24 billion tonnes of pig iron was produced in the first 11 months of 2019, or 2.28% more than in the same period of 2018.

China remains the world's largest pig iron producer (738.9 million tonnes; an increase of 5.05% year-over-year). The share of Chinese pig iron in world production in January-November 2019 was 59.6%.

The positions of other leading countries have not changed.

Among the top five pig iron producing countries in the first 11 months of 2019 were India (101.2 million tonnes; up 3.85%), Japan (68.9 million tonnes; down 3.2%), Russia (46.1 million tons; down 2.5%) and South Korea (43.6 million tons; up 1.3%). Ukraine ranks 10th among 40 world pig iron producers (18.46 million tonnes; down 1.45%).

World steel production in the first 11 months of 2019 amounted to 1.68 billion tonnes, which was 2.7% more than in January-November 2018.

According to the State Statistics Service, Ukraine in the first 11 months of this year produced 18.4 million tonnes of pig iron (1.3% less than in the same period last year) and 8.7 million tonnes of semi-finished products of non-alloy steel (up 2%).

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