20 Dec 2011 14:46

Russia ups steel roll output 4% in Nov - Rosstat

MOSCOW. Dec 20 (Interfax) - Russia raised steel roll production 4% year-on-year in November to 4.9 million tonnes, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) said.

Roll production fell 7.1% compared with October but rose 3% year-on-year in January-November.

Ferrous metal and related output:

Nov 2011 % of Nov 2010 % of Oct 2011 January-Nov 2011 as % of January-Nov 2010
Coal, mln tonnes 32 8,0% 2,9% 3,8%
- of which: bituminous 23,9 10,0% 1,2% 4,9%
-- of which: coking coal 5,9 9,0% 3,8% -2,9%
- raw bituminous 17,1 9,6% 0,0% 7,6%
- raw lignite 8,1 2,4% 8,1% 0,1%
Coking coal concentrate, mln tonnes 7,1 5,8% 0,2% 6,1%
Metallurgical coke, mln tonnes 2,2 -2,1% -2,9% 1,5%
Coking coal fines, '000 tonnes 64,4 -6,1% -14,4% 5,2%
Iron ore concentrate, mln tonnes 8,7 7,1% -1,1% 7,9%
Iron ore pellets (oxidized), mln tonnes 3,3 6,2% 6,5% 3,0%
Pig iron 3,9 -3,2% -7,3% 0,1%
Ferrosilicon, '000 tonnes 86,1 3,1% -5,0% 13,4%
Low-carbon ferrochrome, '000 tonnes 18,9 10,3% -3,1% 2,1%
Crude steel 5,5 -4,8% -6,5% 2,3%
Finished roll, mln tonnes, of which: 4,9 -4,0% -7,1% 3,0%
- long products (not including export billets) 1,6 1,4% -0,2% 12,2%
- flat products, of which: 2,2 -3,2% -5,6% 3,4%
-- c/r 0,8 2,0% -6,9% 2,3%
--h/r 1,4 -5,9% -4,8% 4,0%
--export billets 1 -12,8% -18,5% -10,7%
Steel pipes, '000 tonnes, of which: 729 -14,4% -9,8% 12,4%
- seamless 238 3,7% -1,0% 11,9%
- welded (not including electro-welded) 26,3 62,9% -9,4% 44,2%
- electro-welded large-diameter pipes 178 -45,1% -18,5% 3,2%
- electro-welded (not including large-diameter pipes) 287 1,8% -10,5% 21,1%
- drilling pipes (except cast iron) 2,3 66,8% -16,2% 5,4%
- casing pipes 61,1 -6,2% -4,5% 4,1%
- oil well tubing 32,2 -1,1% 0,0% 3,1%
Iron or non-alloyed steel wire, '000 tonnes 92,2 -7,0% 3,5% 12,0%
Stainless steel and other alloyed steel wire, '000 tonnes 26,7 -9,1% 8,5% 0,3%