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According to the results of 2021, Metinvest has invested more than $ 11 billion in modernization of production over 16 years of operation.

According to the group of companies, last year Metinvest completed several major investment projects, including the commissioning of cyclic-flow technology complexes at the Northern and Ingulets GOK.

Also last year, the group launched a large-scale project to build a new shop for the production of cold-rolled steel, galvanized and painted roll at MMK. Ilyich. The total investment in the project will exceed $ 1 billion. The project will replace more than 1 million tons of imports with high-quality domestic products.

Another major environmental project in 2021 is the reconstruction with the new construction of gas treatment plants of foundries and the bunker overpass of the blast furnace №5 at MMK. Ilyich.

Among the largest implemented investment projects – the construction of a machine for continuous casting of blanks №4, reconstruction of gas purifiers of the sinter plant and sheet rolling mill 1700 at MMK. Ilyich, as well as the modernization of the concentrator of the Central Mining and Metallurgical Plant, which began production of iron ore concentrate and pellets for direct iron reduction technology (DRI technology).

For 16 years of its work Metinvest together with associated and joint ventures transferred to the budgets of all levels of Ukraine more than 217 billion UAH of tax deductions, of which only in 2021 – a record 52.7 billion UAH. These taxes made it possible to support the economy of the countries and cities where the Group’s enterprises are weakened by the corona crisis.