Founded in 1995 in Donetsk, Ukraine, ISD óorporation is amongst the largest transnational companies holding a key position in Central and Eastern European steel production. ISD is ranked among world's top 30 steel-makers with production capacity over 10 million tonnes of steel per year*.
Successful integration of steel assets, efficient anti-crisis strategy as well as sufficient equity and professional managerial skills of the highly-qualified ISD executive team allowed the ISD steel plants to occupy a steady market niche on the world steel market.
ISD upholds to the highest standards of investor relations practice as well as standards of social and environmental responsibility.
ISD implements a number of ambitious reconstruction and production capacity expansion programs at each of its production sites. In 2007 ISD invested over US $1 bln into the modernization programs. Core investments are directed towards environmental improvement, energy conservation, expansion of production capacities, product portfolio diversification and product quality improvement.
The Head of the Directors Board is Mr. Sergey Taruta. The Director General is Mr. Oleg Mkrtchan.
The international ISD team is over 60 thousand associates.
ISD Corporation owns and operates the following major steel assets:
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Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant (Alchevsk, Ukraine);
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Dneprovskiy Metallurgical Plant (Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine);
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ISD–Dunaferr (Dunaujvaros, Hungary);
- ISD–Huta Czestochowa (Czestochowa, Poland);
- Alchevsk Coking Plant (Alchevsk, Ukraine).
* According to the International Institute of Iron and Steel, ISD is ranked among world’ top 30.