OREANDA-NEWS. Metinvest Group's metallurgical mills began to manufacture 19 products last year, bringing the total to 97 new items in 2010-2014. Revenue from the new products in the last four years amounted to \$38.7 million in 2014.

New rolled products began to be manufactured at the following enterprises: Yenakiieve Steel, Azovstal, and Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol in Ukraine and Promet Steel in Bulgaria.

Most of the new items were developed for Metinvest customers in the construction sector, namely those who produce metal structures. New products include S320GD and S350GD galvanized products from Ilyich Iron & Steel Works of Mariupol, which is sold to customers domestically in Ukraine, where previously only imported analogues were available, and abroad. These HDG coils are widely used to manufacture bent profiles for light steel thin-walled structures and girders in Europe, the CIS and in the Middle East.

The range of new steel items also include S500MC thermomechanically strengthened plates and S690QL1 and А514-E quenched and tempered high strength plates according to European and American standards for customers in the machine building industry. High strength steel has a great potential in terms of increasing sales volumes because of the advantages for customers: equipment, machinery and structures made using these type of steel plate are less steel-intensive, more wear resistant and have a higher load-bearing capacity.
Metinvest has also started industrial production of the mining industry products: thread bar for rock bolting, support section profiles, light rails and crane rails. Leading mining companies in Ukraine and the CIS are consumers of these products.