It's reported that the Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) released its production and sales result for the third quarter of this year. NLMK stated that its crude steel output totaled 3.897 million tons in the third quarter, up by 3% from a quarter ago. The output of finished steel products totaled 2.806 million tons, rising by 1.6% quarter on quarter. In the given period of time, NLMK's sales volumes of steel products totaled 3.719 million tons, falling by 1.4% from the second quarter. Among them, 2.360 million tons were flat steel and 535,000 tons were long steel products.
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