The press service of the company said that the growth rate in comparable prices made up 1.5% year-on-year.

Uzmetkombinat produced 575,400 tonnes of steel in January-September (+0.6% year-on-year) and 556,100 tonnes of ready metal roll (+0.4%).

The enterprise increased production of consumer goods by 7.4% year-on-year to 26.9 billion soums in January-September 2012.

In the reporting period, the combine produced localized goods for 116.203 billion soums as the forecast was fulfilled with 21.7% surplus.

Execution of agreement, signed within the Cooperation Exchange, in nine months of 2012 made up 16.078 billion soums (+1.1% surplus to forecast).

The combine utilized investments for 49.7 billion soums, of which 49.1 billion soums were use within the modernization programme.