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Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works

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Ukrainian steel company

Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works, Public Joint Stock Company (PJSC) (Ukrainian: Єнакієвський металургійний завод; Russian: Енакиевский металлургический завод; EMZ) is an integrated steelmaking enterprise comprising OJSC Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works and JV Metalen LLC. Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works (Yenakiieve Steel) is a major employer of the city Yenakiieve in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. The works is located in the vicinity of the railway station Yenakiieve and is 60 km from Donetsk.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1897Founded1
  • Industryiron and steel industry1
  • HeadquartersYenakiieve1
  • Legal formunitary enterprise1

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Енакиевский металлургический завод (вид на Аглофабрику)
Photo: KolesnikovEO, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons5

Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works, Public Joint Stock Company (PJSC) (Ukrainian: Єнакієвський металургійний завод; Russian: Енакиевский металлургический завод; EMZ) is an integrated steelmaking enterprise comprising OJSC Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works and JV Metalen LLC. Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works (Yenakiieve Steel) is a major employer of the city Yenakiieve in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. The works is located in the vicinity of the railway station Yenakiieve and is 60 km from Donetsk.2

The story

The enterprise has more than 100 years' working experience.

November 1897 - The first blast furnace was blown and first cast iron produced. This date is considered to be the date when Petrovskiy (Yenakiievskiy) steel works was established. Another blast furnace, Bessemer, and rail rolling shops were introduced in December.

1898 - The surrounding area was named Yenakiieve after the name of engineer Fedir Yenakiev.

1914 - A total of 6 blast furnaces and 7 open-hearth furnace, 2 converters, 8 rolling mills were operating at the steel works.

1931 - First domestic casting machine was introduced.

1938 - First sintering plant was launched

1968 - The steel works received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

From Wikipedia’s article on Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

Key types of products producing at Yenakiyeve Steel:

hot metal and pig iron;

steel in ingots;

concast square billets;

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shapes and rolled section

Yenakiyeve Iron and Steel Works was one of the world’s leading square billet producers.

By year

The volume of rolled metal production in 2011 amounted to 2.176 million tons.

Rolled metal production in 2019 amounted to 1,446 thousand tons.

Rolled metal production in 2020 amounted to 677 thousand tons.

From Wikipedia’s article on Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Former owners and parents

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Timeline

  1. 1897Founded Founded1

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