In Ukraine, the growing production of steel
According to the Ukrainian Center for Steel Construction (USCC), in Q3 2019, the volume of the visible metal structures production amounted to 36 thousand tons (growth of 2.2%, or 3 thousand tonnes compared to the same period in 2018). In General, for 9 months the volume of production increased by 6% period to period to 101 thousand tons.
As noted in USCC, according to the current load of plants for the year, and is expected to increase production volumes of metal. In the first 9 months of 2019, about half of the reporting companies showed an increase in production volumes.
terms of distribution of production volumes by the number of plants, increasing the number of medium-size companies, producing more than 2 thousand tons. Also increased the number of companies that produce a volume more than 5 kt.
Significantly increased the volumes of output in the non-residential segment, but it is not matched by growth in production of steel structures.
Export structures in the 3rd quarter of 2019 to the same period in 2018 fell more than 2 times and amounted to 1.1 thousand tons. In the export structure in the segments of buildings or structures accounted for 83% of the total.
Import structures to the same period in 2018 decreased 6 times to 0.7 thousand tons.
IN USCC brought the silos within the segment of "tanks" in a separate calculation due to the high volume of imports. In the 3rd quarter of 2019, he made about 10 thousand tons.
the Largest volume of exports of metal were in Moldova, Poland and Georgia – 22% and 18%, respectively. The rest of the volume falls on Europe – 16%, Belarus – 10%. In the geographical structure of imports of 11% is in Poland and the remainder mainly in European countries and Turkey.