Ferrexpo PLC (FXPO.LN), a U.K.-listed, Swiss-registered iron ore miner with operations in Ukraine, said Monday its nine-month pellet production from own raw material increased 5.8% to 6.74 million metric tons from the same period of 2009.

The company said its total pellet production in September was up 15.8% to 911,100 tons, a record amount last reached in 1987.

Total pellets production in the first nine months of the year was up 16% to 7.45 million tons.

The company continued to increase output of pellets, produced from purchased material, in September it increased more than fourfold from the same month of 2009 to 140,000 tons.

The company said its Chief Marketing Officer Simon Wandke, will be leaving Ferrexpo at the end of 2010.

-By Alexander Kolyandr, Dow Jones Newswires; +7 495 232 9192; Alexander.Kolyandr@dowjones.com