OREANDA-NEWS. August 04, 2014. From January to July, 2014, at "Zaporizhstal" II&SW, there was noted the growth of all production indices: iron – for 3.3%, steel – for 2.7%, roll stock – for 5% as compared with the same period of 2013.

From January to July, 2014, 1913.7 thousand tons of iron, 2267.48 thousand tons of steel, 1964.15 thousand tons of roll stock was put out.

Reduction of the production output levels in July, 2014 as compared with July, 2013 is  caused by the scheduled blowing out of the Blast Furnace No.2 (BF-2); in the course of this, the works on repair the furnace stack and revision of the charge feeding mechanisms were performed.