{"id":408017,"date":"2025-09-08T14:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408017\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:34:18","slug":"ukraine-produced-4-25-million-tons-of-rolled-steel-in-january-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/408017\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine produced 4.25 million tons of rolled steel in January-August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                Pig iron production amounted to 5.11 million tons, and steel production amounted to 4.91 million tons<\/p>\n<p>In January-August 2025, Ukrainian steel enterprises reduced their production of commercial rolled steel by 1.4% compared to the same period in 2024, to 4.25 million tons. This is evidenced by data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrmetprom.org\/rezultati-diyalnosti-metalurgiynoi-58\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukrmetprom.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Pig iron smelting increased by 8% y\/y \u2013 to 5.11 million tons, while steel production fell by 6.8% y\/y \u2013 to 4.91 million tons.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-113088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/metall_res_En-1024x538.png\" alt=\"Photo \u2013 Ukraine produced 4.25 million tons of rolled steel in January-August\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\"  \/><\/p>\n<p> In August of this year, rolled steel production increased by 14.7% compared to the previous month and by 7.4% compared to August 2024, to 633,200 tons. Pig iron smelting increased by 8% month-on-month and 16.1% month-on-month to 747.5 thousand tons, while steel smelting fell by 6% year-on-year and increased by 11.9% month-on-month to 649.4 thousand tons.<\/p>\n<p> As reported by GMK Center, in 2024, Ukraine\u2019s steel industry <a href=\"https:\/\/gmk.center\/ua\/news\/metalurgi-ukraini-u-2024-roci-virobili-6-22-mln-t-prokatu\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased<\/a> rolled steel production by 15.8% compared to 2023, from 5.37 million tons to 6.22 million tons. Last year, pig iron production <a href=\"https:\/\/gmk.center\/ua\/news\/ukrainski-metalurgi-za-pidsumkami-2024-roku-virobili-7-1-mln-t-chavunu\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased<\/a> by 18.1% y\/y, from 6 million tons to 7.09 million tons, and steel production <a href=\"https:\/\/gmk.center\/ua\/news\/metalurgi-ukraini-u-2024-roci-virobili-7-6-mln-t-stali\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased<\/a> by 21.6% y\/y, from 6.23 million tons to 7.58 million tons.<\/p>\n<p> The industry\u2019s results in 2024 turned out to be much better than expected. At the same time, according to GMK Center analysts\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/gmk.center\/ua\/posts\/perspektyvy-metalurhii-ukrainy-u-2025-rotsi\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forecasts,<\/a> 2025 will be difficult as the global steel market is going through a crisis period. Steel exports from Ukraine are likely to decline, the price situation will worsen, and import restrictions will tighten around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pig iron production amounted to 5.11 million tons, and steel production amounted to 4.91 million tons In January-August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-408017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115169176320113500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}