Ferrexpo plc, whose main assets are Ukrainian iron ore producers Poltava and Yeristovo mining and processing plants, edged commercial iron ore pellet production down 0.16% year-on-year in February to 1.875 million tonnes, a Ukrainian government source told Interfax-Ukraine.
Iron ore concentrate production fell 2.6% to 2.212 million tonnes.
Ferrexpo produced 865,000 tonnes of pellets and 1.069 million tonnes of concentrate in February.
The London-listed Ferrexpo plc owns 100% of Ferrexpo AG, which owns 97.34% of Poltava Mining and 100% of Yeristovo Mining. Ferrexpo's shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange's main section.
Ferrexpo is the FSU's biggest iron ore pellet producer and exporter. The company's main consumers are steelmakers in Austria, Serbia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany and other European countries, as well as China, India, Japan and other Asian countries. The company does not sell pellets or concentrate in Ukraine.
