According to the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in January this year the crude steel output of 62 countries surveyed across the globe reached 124.8 million mt, increasing by 0.8 percent on year-on-year basis. Total global crude steel ...
According to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat), .in January this year Russia produced 8.5 million mt of iron ore concentrate and 3.4 million mt of iron ore pellets, down two percent and one percent respectively compared to ...
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According to data released by the National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus, in January of the current year the value of metallurgical production in Belarus increased by 3.3 percent compared to the same month last year to ...
Styrene's premium to its feedstock benzene rose to its highest in four months in the Northwest European market, Platts data showed. The premium was assessed at $346/mt at Friday's close, mainly due to falling benzene prices. The premium ...
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The British Columbia government has opened talks with Canada's natural gas industry about a possible new tax on LNG exports, which Premier Christy Clark estimates could generate C$1 trillion in cumulative GDP over the next 30 years. ...
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The Australian dollar rose after stock markets gained ground overnight, helped by the release of better than expected German economic sentiment data. At 6.30am AEDT the local unit was trading at 103.69 US cents, up from 103.29 cents at ...
Ekaterina Golovanova, the head of marketing & sales at steelmaker Severstal predicted that Russia’s steel consumption would stay on the upward trend in the medium term. It’s expected that Russia’s steel consumption ...
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The latest freight rate indications as issued by Banchero Costa are as follows: Products: - 15,000-20,000 mt from the Black Sea approx. $15-16/mt FIO to Mediterranean ports of Turkey and Egypt approx. $16.5-17.5/mt FIO to Italy ...
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Sweden-based mining and exploration company Dannemora Mineral has issued its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year 2012. In the fourth quarter, the company registered a net loss of SEK 104.4 million ($1.65 million), ...
According to the latest data released by the Swedish Steel Producers' Association (Jernkontoret), in January this year Swedish crude steel production amounted to 370,600 metric tons, decreasing by 10.6 percent year on year and up 18 percent ...
According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in December last year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-27) decreased ...
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"It has been a slow path to commercialize smart packaging. Despite strong needs such as the aging population, tougher legislation, huge waste, more demanding consumers and concerns about safety and crime; commercial success has been mixed. ...
Profit after tax and before significant items was up 5.7% to $322m for the six months up to 31 December 2012. Amcor managing director and chief executive Ken MacKenzie said: “The first half result represented a record underlying ...
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It’s reported that Finnish stainless steel producer Outokumpu said that its shipments of stainless steel products would be at 680,000~750,000 tons in the first quarter of this year, jumping from 337,000 tons in a quarter ago. ...
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In January this year, the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 536,500 mt, down 3.35 percent year on year. In addition, in the given month ArcelorMittal ...