The Krivoy Rog Mining and Metallurgical Plant PJSC "ArcelorMittal Krivoy Rog" (AMKR, Dnepropetrovsk region) quite successfully sold metal products on the EU market in 2025, but now, due to SVAM and a shortage of electricity, it is reducing production and operating at a loss. government agencies Oleg Krikovsky during the event “How do shelling of the energy system affect the work of business?”, organized by the Center for Economic Strategy (CES), the fact that it is part of a large transnational company helps the company to work and stay strong.
“We were helped by the fact that we received more than $1 billion in assistance on average for 50% of our capabilities. We were quite successful in the EU market last year, including thanks to the actions of the government, because a good agreement was reached with The European Union to extend duty-free trade for blooming for another three years,” said the top manager.
At the same time, he clarified that AMKR is at a disadvantage compared to European producers within the CBAM framework, because it will have to pay $63-90/ton, depending on the type of product. Also high tariffs on e/e, contracts for import of e/every short.
"We had several cases when we did not contain the volume of e/e consumption and our trader sold it on the market for 0 UAH. Not only did we not receive what we bought, we are forced to reduce production, we received direct losses." – the company explained.
Answering the question about arrivals for equipment, Krikovsky noted that the equipment works during alarms. But there are losses due to emergency situations, and they are painful. The enterprise under normal conditions consumes 400 MWh, but due to restrictions, we now consume 230-250 MWh, and there may be limits of 70 MWh. You can’t kick people out for five to seven hours and not pay them for their work. People at work receive wages, that is, they need to work, stated the AMKR representative. Burnt out. The coke oven battery is essentially a chemical process, meaning it cannot be stopped. launch.
We are thinking about our own generation, about cogeneration. There is a limited resource, limited potential. It's very expensive. But we are working on this at the same time, we have our own thermal power plants and there are technologies today that allow us to do this. But we have a large enterprise and need more“higher capacities,” summarized the director of AMK0 s10 Krivoy Rog, the largest producer of rolled steel in Ukraine. Specializes in the production of long products, in particular rebar and wire rod. The enterprise has a full production cycle, its production capacity is designed for the annual production of more than 6 million tons of steel, more than 5 million tons of rolled products and more than 5.5 million tons of cast iron.
Berislav.
Krivoy Rog Mining and Metallurgical Plant PJSC "ArcelorMittal Krivoy Rog" (AMKR, Dnepropetrovsk region) in 2025 is quite successfully sold metal products on the EU market, but now, due to SVAM and electricity shortages, it is reducing production and operating at a loss. government agencies Oleg Krikovsky during the event “How do shelling of the energy system affect the work of business?”, organized by the Center for Economic Strategy (CES), the fact that it is part of a large transnational company helps the company to work and stay strong.
“We were helped by the fact that we received more than $1 billion in assistance on average at 50% of our capabilities. We were quite successful in the EU market last year, including thanks to the actionsgovernment, because a good agreement was reached with the European Union to extend duty-free trade for another three years. blooming," said the top manager.
At the same time, he clarified that AMKR is at a disadvantage compared to European producers within the framework of SVAM, because you will have to pay $63-90/ton depending on the type of product. Also, high tariffs on e/e, contracts for the import of e/e are very short.
"We had several cases when we did not contain the volume of consumption of e/e and our trader sold it is on the market for 0 UAH. Not only did we not receive what we bought, we are forced to reduce production, we received direct losses." - the company explained.
Answering a question about arrivals for equipment, Krikovsky noted that the equipment works during alarms. But there are losses due to emergencies, and they are painful. The enterprise under normal conditions consumes 400 MWh, and due to restrictions now we consume 230-250 MWh, and There are limits and 70 MWh. You can’t kick people out for five to seven hours and not pay them for their work. People at work receive wages, that is, they need to work, it was stated.Val representative AMKR. Burnt out. The coke oven battery is essentially a chemical process, meaning it cannot be stopped. launch.
We are thinking about our own generation, about cogeneration. There is a limited resource, limited potential. It's very expensive. But we are working on this at the same time, we have our own thermal power plants and there are technologies today that allow us to do this. But we have a large enterprise and need large capacities,” summarized the director of AMK0 c10 Krivoy Rog, the largest producer of rolled steel in Ukraine. Specializes in the production of long products, in particular rebar and wire rod. The enterprise has a full production cycle, its production capacity is designed for the annual production of more than 6 million tons of steel, more than 5 million tons of rolled products and more than 5.5 million tons of cast iron.
Berislav.
Krivoy Rog Mining and Metallurgical Plant PJSC "ArcelorMittal Krivoy Rog" (AMKR, Dnepropetrovsk region) in 2025 is quite successfully sold metal products on the EU market, but now, due to SVAM and electricity shortages, it is reducing production and operating at a loss. government agencies Oleg Krikovsky during the measure"How do shelling of the energy system affect the work of business?", organized by the Center for Economic Strategy (CES), the fact that it is part of a large transnational company helps the company operate and survive.
"We were helped by the fact that we received more than $1 billion in assistance on average at 50% of our capacity. We were quite successful in the EU market last year, also thanks to the actions of the government, because a good agreement was reached with the European Union on the extension duty-free trade for another three years,” said the top manager.
At the same time, he clarified that AMKR is at a disadvantage compared to European producers within the CBAM framework, because it will have to pay $63-90/ton, depending on the type of product. There are also high tariffs on e/e, contracts for the import of e/e are very short.
"We had several cases when we did not contain the volume of consumption of e/e and our trader sold it on the market for 0 UAH. Not only did we not receive what we bought, we are forced to reduce production, we received direct losses." – explained the company.
Answering the question aboutarrivals on equipment, Krikovsky noted that the equipment works during alarms. But there are losses due to emergency situations, and they are painful. The enterprise under normal conditions consumes 400 MWh, but due to restrictions, we now consume 230-250 MWh, and there may be limits of 70 MWh. You can’t kick people out for five to seven hours and not pay them for their work. People at work receive wages, that is, they need to work, stated the AMKR representative. Burnt out. The coke oven battery is essentially a chemical process, meaning it cannot be stopped. launch.
We are thinking about our own generation, about cogeneration. There is a limited resource, limited potential. It's very expensive. But we are working on this at the same time, we have our own thermal power plants and there are technologies today that allow us to do this. But we have a large enterprise and need large capacities,” summarized the director of AMK0 c10 Krivoy Rog, the largest producer of rolled steel in Ukraine. Specializes in the production of long products, in particular rebar and wire rod. The enterprise has a full production cycle, its production capacity is designed for the annual production of more than 6 million tons of steel,more than 5 million tons of rolled steel and more than 5.5 million tons of cast iron.
Berislav.
