Dniprovsky Metallurgical Plant or Dnipro Metallurgical Plant is a private joint-stock company and the oldest metallurgical enterprise in the city of

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper R ...

. It is located in the

Novokodatskyi District Novokodatskyi District ( uk, Новокодацький район) is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in central Ukraine. It is in the western part of the city and borders the city of Kamianske. History The area of the district includ ...

, in

Dnipro Raion Dnipro Raion ( uk, Дніпровський район), until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk Raion ( uk, Дніпропетровський район) is a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine. Its administrative centre ...

. It was founded in 1885. Until 1917, the plant was called the Alexander Southern Russian Ironworks and Rolling Mill of the Bryansk Joint-Stock Company. The plant was named after

Emperor Alexander III Alexander III ( rus, Алекса́ндр III Алекса́ндрович, r=Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich; 10 March 18451 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. ...

. Later the plant was known as the Bryansk Plant. From 1922 until the time of

decommunization in Ukraine Decommunization in Ukraine started during and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. With the success of the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, the Ukrainian government approved laws that outlawed communist symbols. On 15 May 2015, Pr ...

, the plant was named after the Bolshevik figure Hryhoriy Petrovsky. The main products are square billets (supplied to Egypt) and

structural channel The structural channel, also known as a C-channel or Parallel Flange Channel (PFC), is a type of (usually structural steel) beam, used primarily in building construction and civil engineering. Its cross section consists of a wide "web", usually bu ...

beams which have a wide export geography (supplied to European, Asian, and African countries).

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