KIEV, Jan. 11 - Metinvest, a steel and mining conglomerate owned by Rinat Akhmetov, the wealthiest Ukrainian, plans to acquire additional rolling assets overseas to manufacture products with higher added value and to access new markets.

Acquiring the assets abroad would complement a rolling plant in Italy already owned by Akhmetov??™s System Capital Management (SCM), a holding group, and would enable the company to get access to protected markets.