In October 2019, the metallurgical enterprises of Ukraine intend to increase steel production by 5.4% compared with the forecast for September - to 1.95 million tons from 1.85 million tons. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine with reference to the information certificate of the association “Ukrmetallurgprom”.

As reported, the October plan also envisages an increase in pig iron production by 5.7%, to 1.85 million tons from 1.75 million tons, and an increase in total rolled products by 3% relative to the forecast for September - to 1.7 million tons from 1.65 million tons.
According to the updated data of Ukrmetallurgprom, 42.44 million tons of iron ore concentrate were produced in January-August (106% compared to the same period in 2018), 21.11 million tons of sinter (102%), 14.76 million tons of pellets (103%) , 6.87 million tons of gross coke (96%), 13.73 million tons of pig iron (101%), 14.66 million tons of steel (105%), 12.52 million tons of rolled metal (102%), 740 thousand tons pipe products (101%).
In August, 1.83 million tons of pig iron were produced (111% compared to July 2019), 1.94 million tons of steel (109%), 1.54 million tons of rolled metal (102%).
As of September 10, 2019, of the main existing production facilities in operation are: 18 of 21 blast furnaces, eight of nine open-hearth furnaces, 14 of 16 converters, 5 of 15 electric furnaces and 15 of 15 continuous casting machines (CCM).
In August 2019, about 2.4 million tons of iron ore raw materials were delivered to metallurgical enterprises (100% compared to July 2019). There was no import of iron ore in August.
In the eight months of 2019, about 18.9 million tons of iron ore were delivered to domestic enterprises, all of Ukrainian origin (94% compared to the same period in 2018). In August 2019, iron ore exports amounted to about 3.5 million tons (100% compared to July 2019), for the eight months of 2019 - 27.76 million tons (112% compared to the same period in 2018).
In August 2019, scrap companies procured 225 thousand tons of scrap metal (117% compared to July 2019), the entire volume was delivered to domestic metal enterprises. For export, scrap metal was not supplied.
For the eight months of 2019, of the 2.143 million tons of scrap metal procured (87% compared to the same period in 2018), 2.106 million tons (97%) were delivered to Ukrainian consumers as imported ones, 37 thousand tons (12%) were exported.

Source: https://ukrrudprom.ua