Russia ups steel roll output 11.3% in 10M
MOSCOW. Nov 26 (Interfax) - Russian steel companies raised finished roll output 11.3% year-on-year in January-October, the Russian Economic Development Ministry said.
The domestic market grew an estimated 27.3%, not including inventories, in January-September 2010. Russian ferrous metal exports, not including pig iron, ferroalloys, scrap and waste rose 6.6% year-on-year in the 9M of 2010 to 22.7 million tonnes, including growth of 16.4% to 12.1 million tonnes of semis. Russia shipped most of its semis to countries outside the CIS. Exports of flat products rose 0.7% to 7.6 million tonnes but exports of long products, not including semis, fell 13.9% to 2.8 million tonnes.
Ferrous imports rose 54.7% to 3.76 million tonnes in the nine months. Imports of flat products grew 47.9% to 2.44 million tonnes and long product imports grew 85.2% to 1.18 million tonnes.
The overall roll imports were higher than the 4.3 million tonnes Russia imported in the pre-crisis January-September 2008, when the country shipped 1.7 million tonnes of long products and 2.6 million tonnes of flat products from abroad.
Overall ferrous metals output, mln tonnes:
| Month | Pig iron and blast furnace alloys | Crude steel | Finished roll | Steel pipes |
| Jan | 4 | 5,1 | 4,5 | 0,622 |
| Feb | 3,7 | 5 | 4,3 | 0,679 |
| March | 4,2 | 5,6 | 4,7 | 0,779 |
| April | 4,3 | 5,6 | 4,8 | 0,739 |
| May | 4,1 | 5,9 | 5,1 | 0,681 |
| June | 3,8 | 5,3 | 4,6 | 0,702 |
| July | 3,9 | 5,4 | 4,8 | 0,716 |
| August | 4 | 5,6 | 4,9 | 0,759 |
| September | 4 | 5,6 | 4,9 | 0,828 |
| October | 4 | 5,6 | 4,9 | 867 |
| 10 mths 2010/10 mths 2000 | +11,4% | +13,3% | +11,3% | +37,3% |
The ministry said some of the country's biggest steel makers, including Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and Severstal , boosted roll output roughly 16%-18% year-on-year in January-October 2010.
Finished roll output by Russian steel majors, mln tonnes:
| Enterprise | 10M 2010 | 10M 2010/10M 2009, % | 9M 2010 | Oct 2010* | Sept 2010* | Oct/Sept 2010, % |
| MMK | 8,589 | +18,3 | 7,734 | 0,855 | 0,918 | -0,1 |
| Cherepovets Iron & Steel Works (Severstal ) | 8,368 | +16,3 | 7,55 | 0,818 | 0,921 | -0,1 |
| Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) | 7,275 | +12,4 | 6,503 | 0,772 | 0,747 | 0,0 |
| West Siberian Iron & Steel Works (Evraz Group) | 4,856 | +21 | 4,227 | 0,629 | 0,585 | +0,1 |
| Nizhny Tagil Iron & Steel Works (Evraz Group) | 2,933 | -2,5 | 2,52 | 0,413 | 0,237 | +0,7 |
| Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant (Mechel | 2,5 | -6,2 | 2,294 | 0,206 | 0,264 | -0,2 |
| Oskol Electrometallurgical Combine (OEMK) (Metalloinvest) | 2,318 | -5,4 | 2,073 | 0,245 | 0,221 | +0,1 |
| Urals Steel (Metalloinvest) | 1,922 | -12,8 | 1,718 | 0,204 | 0,151 | +0,4 |
| Novokuznetsk Iron & Steel Works (NKMK, Evraz Group) | 1,177 | -8,2 | 1,041 | 0,136 | - | - |
*) Estimate based on previous Econ Ministry data