Moldavian Metallurgical Plant has announced that in February this year it restarted production of steel billets, manufacturing a total of 37,567 tonnes.

In addition, in February MMZ increased its output of finished steel products to 28,633 tonnes compared to only 6,419 tonnes produced in the previous month. Of its total volume in February of finished steel products, 9,559 tonnes were bars and 19,073 tonnes were rods.

MMZ's deliveries in the second month of 2010 increased by 129%MoM amounting to 25,481 tonnes including 13,689 tonnes to non-CIS countries and 11,792 tonnes to CIS countries. The producer deliveries of special grade steel products amounted to 3,397 tonnes during the month in question.

During the first two months of 2010, MMZ produced 37,564 tonnes of steel billets and 35,052 tonnes of finished steel products, while its deliveries amounted to 36,601 tonnes including 15,255 to CIS markets and 21,346 to non-CIS markets. Special grade steel shipments accounted for 5,557 tonnes of total shipments in the first two months of 2010.

In March, MMZ plans to produce about 35,000 tonnes to 40,000 tonnes of steel billets and 35,000 tonnes to 38,000 tonnes of finished steel products, of which 25,000 to 28,000 will be rods while the rest will be bars.

(Sourced from SteelOrbis)
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