Global steelmaker headquartered India Tata Steel has just posted its Q4 performance for its consolidated unites, which is better than earlier expected by market watchers. For the period in question, Tata Steel’s consolidate steel ...
Tags: Construction, steel
According to statistics, Taiwan imported 102,830 tons of stainless steel products in April, up by 3% from a month ago. Among them, 84,683 tons were hot rolled stainless steel products, rising by 10,000 tons; 12,006 tons were cold rolled ...
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According to data released by the Brazilian flat steel distributor institute (INDA), Brazil's imports of steel flat products totaled 133,900 tons in April, soaring by 28.9% year on year and rising by 48.6% month on month. In April, the ...
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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported on Thursday that for this year, the US imported 10,375,000 net tons of steel, down by 12% compared to the same period last year. Of the 10 million total steel imports, 8,178,000 net tons ...
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It's reported that the prices of medium heavy plates have fallen by US$10/ton in the Mexican market over the past two weeks due to sluggish demand. According to data, Mexico's output of medium heavy plates totaled 531,779 tons in the first ...
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According to statistics, Ukraine exported around 2.023 million tons of steel products in March, rising by 4% from a month ago. In March, the country imported 112,300 tons of steel products, up by 3.3% from the previous month. In the first ...
Tags: Steel, Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Around 85 % of the exhibition space set aside for the furniture supplier fair SICAM, which will be held in Pordenone from 15 to 18 October 2013, had been rented by the middle of May, according to the organiser Carlo Giobbi from Business ...
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Businesses in Germany's woodworking sector ended February with a 3.6 % decline in turnover to €1.109bn after a 0.6 % improvement in January 2013. Domestic revenues grew 2.3 % to €833.9m in the second month of the year, according ...
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The Romanian cement market declined 0.2 percent in 2012 owing to bad weather and an unfavorable economic context, and this year seems no better as yet. Any growth by yearend will be small, and could only come from infrastructure investments ...
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The shape of homeownership and housing markets has changed dramatically over time and will continue to change in the face of new housing opportunities and challenges. That’s according to panelists at the “Challenges and ...
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Total supply of land for state-owned construction reached 123,000 hectares in China in the first quarter of 2013, growing 7.6% over a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Land and Resources. Supply of land for mining warehouses, ...
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Imports of tropical lumber to the EU fell by 13% last year to 996,000 m3 and thereby dropped below the 1m m3 mark for the first time. Information from the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO) shows that even in 2009, when the ...
Tags: Lumber, Construction
Building activity in the USA, particularly apartment construction, increased following a rise in demand in February 2013. Building starts, according to US Census Bureau, increased in the twelve months up to and including March by 7% ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Japanese Nisshin Steel announced to raise its domestic prices for austenitic cold rolled coils (CRC) and tubes by ¥20,000/ton and increase its domestic prices for ferritic CRC and tubes by ¥10,000/ton from June deliveries. A ...
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Reportedly, the current prices of SS400 hot rolled coils (HRC) with sizes of 3.0mm*1,250mm*C in Malaysia is at about US$810~US$825/ton, remaining unchanged from last week. The market shows a sign that the price may remain stable in the ...