Ukraine, despite the military invasion of the Russian Federation, managed to rise in the list of world steel producers from 31st to 28th place.
According to the results of the first quarter of this year, Ukraine rose in the ranking of steel producers from 31st to 28th place out of 64 countries. On Friday, April 21, the reports Ukrmetallurgprom relating to World Steel Association.
“World steel production in January-March 2023 was 459.30 million tons, which is 0.09% less than in January-March 2022 (459.70 million tons). Ukraine (1.24 million tons, or 33. 78% compared to January -March 2022) rose from 31st to 28th place among 64 steel-producing countries.
In January-March of this year, the metallurgical enterprises of the countries of the world produced 348.88 million tons of pig iron, of which 322.93 million tons – by the blast-furnace method and 25.95 million tons – by direct reduction method.
These numbers are 3.09% higher than the same period last year (338.41 million tons).
Ukraine is 19th in the list of 40 pig iron producing countries. In the first quarter, it produced 1.20 million tons, or 34.26% compared to January-March 2022.
The world leader in producers of metallurgical products is China with 261.56 million tons of smelted iron and 219.83 million tons of pig iron.
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Recall that the Ministry of Economics and Trade previously said that Ukraine is working with the European Union on the issue of replacing Russian products on the EU market with Ukrainian goods, in particular, we are talking about metallurgy.
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