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maintain focus on the use of obsolete technologies and production of cheap products.

forecast reduction in the smelting of steel in the country on the basis of 2009 to 26.6% voiced deputy minister Sergei prompolitiki Grischenko Conference on Metal-2009: management, production, trade and consumption. According to official figures, the decline in the Ukrainian steel industry to stop, so the average loading of steel capacity will remain stable until the end of the year - in the region of 60%. In the first quarter of 2009, loading metpredpriyaty Ukraine has exceeded that of the U.S. (43%), EU (49%) and Japan (55%).

At the same time, now it can be only a temporary suspension of inefficient capacity (Martin). Even some open-hearth furnaces, which are in the middle of 2008, preparing for decommissioning. Deputy general director of association Metallurgprom Victor Lesovaya explains the situation this way: In Ukraine the ratio of capacity to produce the open and the converter steel, roughly speaking, 50% to 50%, so as soon as we turn over 50%, have run the open-hearth furnaces.

But output growth is accompanied by a deterioration of metal structures of marketing: significantly reduced shipments of rolled to the domestic market, while exports dominated by cheaper products. Following five months of 2009, the supply of steel to domestic consumers have fallen almost by half and accounted for 15.6% of total production. As the Head of Marketing Department of JSC UGMK Ruslan Mazhinsky, the capacity of Ukrainian market in this period amounted to 2041 tons This imports decreased 3.5-fold, to 210 thousand tons. Reducing the share of imports in domestic consumption is a positive factor, because in 2008 it amounted to almost 20%.

Restoration and development of the domestic market is only possible in promoting the state metallopotreblyayuschih industries. People's deputy of the Party of Regions Alex White believes that it is now necessary to maintain metallopotreblyayuschie industry (engineering, construction, etc.), and this should take long-term program to stimulate metallopotrebleniya in the form of law. In the late 1980's. on the territory of Ukraine annually consumes about 20 million tons of rolled products. These data, according to experts, should be the benchmark for the development of the domestic market consumption of steel products.

Meanwhile, the main supply of domestic steel products are exported. The share of products in this segment over the five months of 2009 increased by almost 10%. This occurred due to the minimal drop in sales volumes and a square cut sales growth of round billets. At the same time changed the geographical structure of Ukrainian exports.

According to the Center Gosvneshinform, significantly reduced the supply in consuming countries flat: EU, Russia, Turkey, South and Central America. Virtually stopped the shipment of Ukrainian rolled in the United States. But the increased supply in the Middle East and North Africa, where the state of development of infrastructure projects. Also, after a long break, resumed the sale of domestic hire Chinese consumers - for five months in 2009 were delivered 876.4 tons, or 9.4% of all Ukrainian exports.

Ukrainian metallurgists able to maintain their position in the world market of steel and rolled products. But it is necessary to intensify the implementation of energy-and resource-saving technologies, to complete the program of modernization begun production facilities. Analysts say that will likely occur multidirectional vibrations in the $ 20-50 per 1 ton, which does not lead to a long-term growth trends.

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