KYIV, Nov 7 – Ukrainian metal companies tentatively decreased coke production by 20% in January-October 2017 year-over-year, to 8.588 million tons, the Ukrmetallurgprom association (Dnipro) has told Interfax-Ukraine.

Pipe production grew by 25%, to 876,000 tons.

In October alone, 93,600 tons of pipes and 901,000 tons of coke were made.