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UKREXPORT has direct access to main producers of Steel Slabs and Steel Blooms in Ukraine and neighboring countries. Slabs (Blooms) are a kind of very rough Billets, but not in typical square or round cross-section but that of larger rectangular form with average sides like 250mm and 1000mm and average length 4000mm. It’s a thick steel plate/bar smelted mostly in a continuous-casting furnace and intended for further re-rolling into thinner plates 20mm down to 5mm thick. Typical Slab/Bloom weighs 5-10MT each unit or by agreement with buyer can be cut into multiple units/lengths/weighs. It is seldom delivered in 20ft/40ft containers, although in case of cutting into multiple units/lengths/weighs containerized shipment also makes sense upon special shipping rates.

Despite plenty of steel grades used for production of Slabs (Blooms), this production is mainly adjusted to Ukrainian domestic ultimate applications. Overseas buyers, if they can’t specify precise steel grade(s) good for requested material, are recommended to choose from main application fields as following:
- general purpose plates (plain carbon steel, constructional steel, deoxidized steel, alloyed steel, unalloyed steel, cold-resistant steel)
- for shipbuilding industry (deoxidized steel normal strength, carbon steel normal strength, carbon steel heightened strength)
- for high-pressure boilers and tanks (plain carbon steel, lower quality alloyed steel)
- for spring applications (quality constructional steel, higher quality alloyed steel)

Minimal order quantity is 5000MT because Steel Slabs/Blooms are literally largest pieces of primary raw material and, as such, sold in commercial bulk quantities starting from 5000MT. Please note: Any original production of Steel Slabs/Blooms at that or other factory is not open public process. Inquiry for particular production/offer/price has to show authentic information: 1) who (what company) is buyer/importer/consignee; 2) where (what bank) his payment is to come from: 3) how (in copies of docs) he bought/imported/consumed Slabs (Blooms) last time, to prove 1) and 2).