Indeed, there is no other word the present situation could be described with but “extreme”. At the beginning of the 90s, Ukrainian tube industry produced more than 7 mln. metric tons of various steel tubes per year and firmly ranked Читати далі →

The year of 1999 proved to be the most rewarding as regards output of cast iron, steel, rolled metal, agglomerated ore and coke out of the last six years.

For many years, the author of the following article was in the thick of events related to immense plans on further development of Ukrainian metallurgy and particularly coke-making industry. Programs elaborated in the beginning of the eighties seemed to re

March 16, 2001 became the bad day for Ukrainian tube manufacturers, because it was when the Russian Committee on Protective Measures in Foreign Trade decided to impose a 40% protective duty on import of tubes made of ferrous metals from Читати далі →