Rolled product output in Russia for 9 months has increased by 6% to 47 mln tons

Federal State Statistics Service reports that according to the results of the period from January to September 2012 Russian enterprises produced 46,9 million tones of finished steel products, an increase of 6% as compared to the same period in 2011.

Production of steel has increased by 5% to 53,5 mln tons, pig iron – increase by 6.6% to 38,0 mln tons, stainless steel ingots – decline by 19.5% to 118 thousand tones.

Steel pipes output in the accounting period has decreased by 8.2% to 7,2 mln tons.

Coal mining has increased by 7.4% to 258 mln tons, black coal concentrate has declined by 0.2% to 62,1 mln tons.