Ukrainian metallurgic enterprises can’t reach pre-crisis volumes of steel smelting

In September, Ukrainian metallurgic enterprises, lost faith in successful promotion of its goods on the world market, had to decrease steel production to 2.7 million tons as compared with 2.8 million tons in August of this year.

The decrease is not big on a global scale, but because of it the Ukraine fell to the last place in the top-ten of the largest steel producers by results of September, gave place to Turkey, which smelted over 3 million tons of steel.

Countries of the growth

Due of unfavorable market conditions, steel production is decreasing in the majority of countries. According to WSA (World Steel Association), in the first nine months of 2013 countries of the European Union smelted 123.8 million tons of steel (in the first nine months of 2012 – 129.2 million tons), the USA – 88.9 million tons (92.7 million tons), South America – 34.7 million tons (35.2 million tons) and the CIS states – 81.5 million tons (84.4 million tons).