"Thanks to the joint and well-coordinated work of production, technical and sales services, our company in Turkey has managed to expand the range and improve the structure of orders accepted," stressed Pavel Shilyaev, General Director of PJSC MMK. “As a result, in January a backlog of orders for hot-dip galvanized steel was formed, which allowed the Turkish asset of MMK Group to achieve record results.” Pavel Shilyaev also noted that MMK Metalurji is constantly working to improve production processes and attract new production orders, taking into account the needs of the market.
In 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic and the associated challenges, as well as the imposition of restrictions on the movement of goods due to quarantine measures, the Turkish asset of PJSC MMK showed good operating and financial results. Thus, at the end of the year, EBITDA amounted to $ 34 million, which doubled the planned level due to the growth in sales against the background of the successful implementation of the diversification strategy and increase in profitability. “The decisions formed during the period of significant quarantine restrictions in the 2nd quarter of 2020 allowed the company to timely and fully respond to the sharply increased demand after the abolition of quarantine in the second half of the year, offering the entire range of its products to the market without any production restrictions,” Denis said Kvasov, CEO of MMK Metalurji.
MMK Metalurji is a modern metallurgical complex on the territory of the Republic of Turkey. Since 2011, 100% of the company's shares have been owned by PJSC MMK. The complex in Turkey includes an electric steelmaking shop with a casting and rolling module, a cold rolling mill, a service metal center with a continuous hot-dip galvanizing unit and a polymer coating unit in Iskenderun, a service metal center with a continuous hot-dip galvanizing unit and a polymer coating unit in Istanbul. The complex in Iskenderun also includes a seaport capable of receiving ships with a displacement of up to 100 thousand tons. In 2020, MMK Metalurji's sales grew by 2.8% to 741 thousand tonnes.
