Metal commerce is the main topic of this issue of The Metal. We asked marketing director of Zaporozhstal Iron and Steel Works (Metallurgiyny kombinat “Zaporizhstal”) Yuri SOKHA to tell our readers about his company’s approaches to metal distribution.

Like ever before, Middle East and S.E. Asia are still the principal markets for metal in 2000.

Use of energy-saving power-electronic facilities in metallurgy

Steel imports to be the barest necessity of the US market

In general, the bypast year 2000 was auspicious for Ukrainian metallurgy thanks to an economic experiment carried out at the enterprises of the country’s mining and metallurgical sector (MMS) and favorable conjuncture at the world metal market in II-IV qu

Over the past two years, Ukrainian metallurgy augmented its output and imports, whereas exports of Ukraine-made metal products were negatively affected by a number of factors.