Also in the month, the group produced 525,000 tonnes of rawsteel, up 19% month-on-month and down 29% year-on-year. The figure was 1.8million between January and April, an annual decrease of 39%.
In the four-month period, Hoa Phat’s steel sales exceeded1.8 million tonnes, dropping by 34% against last year. Of the total sales,there were over 1 million tonnes of construction steel and 721,000 tonnes of hot-rolledcoil, both down 34% and 29% year-on-year, respectively.
The group recorded its first-quarter revenue at more than26.86 trillion VND (1.14 billion USD), a decrease of 39% from 2022, with consolidatedprofit after tax hitting 383 billion VND.
As the market is forecast to remain difficult in thesecond quarter, the company has planned to focus its resources for theinvestment in the second Hoa Phat Dung Quat 2 iron and steel production complexproject and the restoration of steel production volume in Hai Duong and QuangNgai./.