Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- ArcelorMittal’s Ukrainian unit said steel production rose by 22.7 percent in January from the same month a year earlier.

Production jumped to 549,200 metric tons from 447,300 tons in January 2010, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, based in the Ukrainian city of that name, said in an e-mailed statement today.

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