Viktor Nusenkis’ plant may be stopped within the next few days, suffering from under-delivery of iron ore by Severnyy ore-dressing and processing enterprise owned by Rinat Akhmetov’s Metinvest holding.
Metinvest’s pellets price is the subject of an ongoing and as yet futile negotiation between the companies. Current prices offered by Metinvest give Donetskstal’ no chance of cost effective cast iron production, a source close to Donetskstal’ informs.