KIEV. Sept. 4 - Ukrainian iron ore producers boosted pellet production across the board in the first seven months of 2007.

Poltavsky GOK (PGOK), Ukraine's biggest iron ore pellet producer, raised commercial pellet production tentatively 12.4% year-on-year to 6.15 million tons, the company told Interfax. Iron ore concentrate production grew 14.7% to 7.091 million tons.

PGOK produced 760,000 tons of pellets and 909,000 tons of concentrate in August.