That marks the maximum result since August 1983
when the company entered the business and PGOK produced 1.188 million tons.
In January PGOK produced 943 thousand tons of
pellets of its own ore, up by 9.6% YoY, while the output of pellets of other
ore was on the level of 42 thousand tons.
In 2013 PGOK increased its output of pellets of
its own raw materials by 11.2%, to 10.466 million tons, and that of the other
raw materials – by 23.5%, to 347.5 thousand tons, all YoY.
That resulted in the increase of the total
pellets output by 11.6%, to 10.813 million tons.
EGOK
started to mine ore in industrial volumes in the middle of 2012. (Ukrainian metal)