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April 5, 2018

Mechel reports 2017 operational results

Moscow, Russia– April 5, 2018 – Mechel PAO (MOEX: MTLR, NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces 2017 operational results.

Production and sales

Production:

Product Name

2017,
thousand tonnes

2016,
thousand tonnes

%

4Q2017,
thousand tonnes

3Q2017,
thousand tonnes

%

Run-of-Mine Coal

20,638

22,683

-9

4,944

5,363

-8

Pig Iron

4,029

4,053

-1

981

1,010

-3

Steel

4,274

4,252

+1

1,057

1,000

+6

Electric power generation
(thousand kWh)

 3,427,430

3,378,220

+1

928,618

820,430

+13

Heat power generation (Gcal)

5,581,204

5,730,268

-3

1,810,894

679,181

+167

Sales:

Product Name

2017
thousand tonnes

2016,
thousand tonnes

%

4Q2017,
thousand tonnes

3Q2017,
thousand tonnes

%

Coking coal concentrate

7,942

8,664

-8

1,972

1,898

+4

Including coking coal concentrate supplied to third parties

4,797

5,784

-17

1,128

1,198

-6

PCI

1,465

1,620

-10

459

324

+42

Including PCI supplied to third parties

1,465

1,620

-10

459

324

+42

Anthracites

1,613

1,771

-9

394

409

-4

Including anthracites supplied to third parties

1,400

1,519

-8

343

362

-5

Steam coal

6,141

6,997

-12

1,499

1,478

+1

Including steam coal supplied to third parties

5,404

5,927

-9

1,294

1,297

0

Iron ore concentrate

2,510

2,744

-9

473

637

-26

Including iron ore concentrate supplied to third parties

30

26

+15

7

12

-39

Coke

2,686

2,839

-5

648

656

-1

Including coke supplied to third parties

771

894

-14

177

180

-2

Ferrosilicon

67

79

-15

19

17

+12

Long rolls

2,919

2,990

-2

705

747

-6

Flat rolls

581

496

+17

128

149

-14

Hardware

651

665

-2

148

172

-14

Forgings

45

38

+18

10

8

+30

Stampings

96

75

+28

27

22

+26

Key investment projects progress

Universal rolling mill: 

 Product Name

2017,
thousand tonnes

2016,
thousand tonnes

%

4Q2017,
thousand tonnes

3Q2017,
thousand tonnes

%

Rails, beams
and shapes

636

517

+23

152

170

-11

Elga coal complex:

Product Name

2017,
thousand tonnes

2016,
thousand tonnes

%

4Q2017,
thousand tonnes

3Q2017,
thousand tonnes

%

Run-of-mine coal

4,154

3,726

+11

1,105

1,116

-1

Mechel PAO’s Chief Executive Officer Oleg Korzhov commented on the 2017 operational results:

“We may note with satisfaction that despite the commodity market volatility, which was primarily due to weather in Australia, prices for our key product, coking coal concentrate, remained at a favorable level. Japan and China were chief coking coal importers in 2017, and China continues to boost its presence on the market by increasing coking coal imports by over 10 million tonnes. At the same time, infrastructure limitations in the Far East and lack of railway cars that were keenly felt in the second half of last year, did not allow us to export to Asia Pacific as much coal as we had originally planned.

In 2017, the company paid maximum attention to a technical revamping of its mining fleet and equipment renovation in order to restore its mining volumes in 2018. As a result, overburden mining in Yakutia and Kuzbass went up, which enabled us to increase the amount of developed coal for future mining. We have seen the revamping’s positive effect in Elga Coal Complex’s 2017 results, as mining went up by 11%. Sales of Elga’s coking coal concentrate have nearly doubled year-on-year, which is partly due to the decrease of steam coal’s share in the coal mined at the deposit.

“The overall slump in coal mining as well as the lack of wagons in the Russian Railways network in the second half of the year had their impact on the sales of our mining division’s products. Sales of coking coal concentrate went down by 8%. Nearly 40% of our total coking coal concentrate sales to third parties were exported to China. PCI sales went down by 10% in 2017, but in the fourth quarter we managed to increase production and ensure a 42-percent rise in sales quarter-on-quarter, while sales to Asia Pacific in 4Q2017 went up by 32%.

“Iron ore mining at Korshunov Mining Plant in 2017 was aggravated by difficult subsurface conditions, with a lower iron content and a higher humidity in the ore, which led to a nine-percent decrease in iron ore concentrate sales. Nearly all finished products are shipped to Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant for further use as raw materials for steelmaking.

“The five-percent decrease in coke sales was due to instability in the domestic market. In 2018, we are expanding into new markets in Eastern Europe and, as a whole, plan to increase sales of our coke products.

“In the group’s steel division, we have significantly increased output of high-margin products at our key facilities — Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, Beloretsk Metallurgical Plant and Izhstal — by decreasing the share of less profitable products. This strategy enabled us to improve our facilities’ earning capacity.

“We are constantly increasing the load of Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant’s universal rolling mill, mastering new beam sizes as well as supplying more rails to Russian Railways. Over the past two years, we have supplied approximately 600,000 tonnes of rails for railroad reconstruction in our country. As of now, we have mastered production of some 60 profiles of beams and rails at our universal rolling mill. Also, Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant mastered production of SIN beams at a new automated production line installed in one of the plant’s rolling workshops. With the SIN beam technology in hand, the plant’s product range now includes all kinds of beam profiles existing on the domestic market.

“As Chinese producers’ activity slumped, 2017 became a year for a growth in prices for flat rolls. We took advantage of this favorable situation and increased sales of flat rolls by 17%.

“An improvement in prices on the European market had a positive impact on the dynamics of our stampings sales (+18%). Demand for stampings both in Russia and the CIS remains high and stable, which enabled us to increase sales by 28% in 2017. We signed contracts with all major wagonbuilders who are primary customers of Urals Stampings Plant’s stamped products.

“In 2017, electricity generation remained at the same level. The three-percent decrease in heat generation was due to an actual decrease in heat consumption by the housing and utilities sector and industrial facilities.” 

***

Mechel PAO
Ekaterina Videman
Tel: + 7 495 221 88 88
ekaterina.videman@mechel.com

 

 

 

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