Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) got some of the best positions in Metallosnabzheniye I Sbyt’s rating of Russian metallurgical enterprises.

The magazine’s new issue featured the rating of these companies’ performance in the first half of 2008. Their assessment is based on the customers’ applications and a survey of marketing experts. The magazine reports they used criteria like shipments volume, services, quality of produce, and meeting one’s contractual obligations as well as the factors that have influenced the home market since the beginning of the year.

MMK is still one of the branch leaders in this country: it crowned the Top 5 Flat Stock Manufacturers list, while MAGMA Trade, the enterprise’s official dealer for four Russian regions and Byelorussia, was given the fourth position in the rating. This company was also featured as one of the top ten trading firms in the metallurgical sector.

Apart from that, MMK was rates Russia’s third best rolled section producer; MMK’s daughter enterprise MMK Profile Moscow was among the top ten metal traders.

MMK-METIZ (part of MMK Group) was declared the country’s second best metal goods producer.