Maxi Group’s enterprises sold 6% less of bar iron and 2% less of metal goods in the second quarter of 2009 compared with a year earlier. Then, the sales of their steel feed also dropped by 53%, the Group’s press officer reports.

In addition, the Group’s scrap iron division only delivered 704,000 tons of recycled scrap iron and steel, which was 18% less than in the second quarter of 2008.