CEO Jaroslaw Zagorowski of (63,44 PLN, 0,70%) coal company of Poland said in an interview for local press that his company never considered buying (27,3 CZK, -0,55%). It did, though, bid for NWR’s OKK Koksovny and offered about the same as Metalimex. He gave two reasons for why Metalimex might have won: Metalimex was better at weighing the risk related to the possibility of closing the OKK facility, and faced risks associated with having a dominant market position. Asked about coal prices, he said he expects coking coal to stabilize at the current level and thermal coal not to rise because of the large imports of U.S. coal.