China may raise the price of refined oil on Thursday, which would mark the seventh such increase within a year, industry analysts predicted. The upward adjustment of the refined oil price is predicted to be 100 yuan ($16) per ton, ...
Tags: Refined Oil, Crude Oil
China's top economic planner announced on Thursday that it will raise the per-tonne retail price of gasoline by 160 yuan ($26.08) and diesel by 155 yuan from Friday. The adjustment, following a third consecutive drop on November 14, will ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Oil
YC Inox, one of the major stainless steel flat service centers and also the welded pipe makers in Taiwan said that its welded pipe monthly output will rise by 1,000 tons to 9,000 ~10,000 tons per month in the first quarter of next year. ...
Stockpiles of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports increased last week, according to Tuesday's Xinhua-China iron ore index report. At the end of the Nov. 19 to Nov. 25 period, inventories of imported iron ore in ports stood at 81.11 million ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Prices for solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers have risen to US$0.94/wafer due to tight supply, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) has cited Taiwan-based maker Gigastorage as indicating. Gigastorage has received orders ...
Tags: Solar-Grade Silicon, Energy
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the first nine months of the current year Turkey's wire rod exports amounted to 697,211 mt, decreasing 16.73 percent, while the revenue of these exports fell to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Wire Rod
On November 21, Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group (HBIS) announced that in October this year its subsidiary Tangshan Iron and Steel Co. (Tangshan Steel) produced 212,400 mt of cold rolled products, while its ...
Tags: Steel, Cold Rolled Product, Metallurgy, Mineral
In the January-October period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China (from a total of 80 shipbuilding enterprises) amounted to 34.80 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 25.4 percent year on year, according to the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In the first 10 months of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 973.94 million mt, rising by 4.25 percent compared to the same period of 2012, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for approximately ...
Tags: Iron, Metallurgy, Mineral
According to the data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 82 percent of total world DRI production in 2012 amounted to 5.29 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
In the January-October period of the current year, Kazakhstan produced 2.830 million mt of crude steel, down 14.7 percent year on year, according to the State Statistics Committee of Kazakhstan. Production of flat steel in Kazakhstan in ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Japanese mills have increased their export prices of cold rolled non-grain-oriented steel (CRNGO) to China by US$20~30/ton month-by-month since October, attempting to reach at US$750/ton CFR although CRNGO prices unchanged by Chinese main ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel Mills
According to the monthly sectoral confidence survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the confidence index* for the construction sector in Turkey, which stood at 78.3 points in October this year, decreased by 1.6 percent ...
Tags: Construction
Turkish rebar producer Izmir Demir ?elik Sanayi A.?. (IDC) has announced its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2013, stating that, despite low demand, firm prices are expected to move upward in the coming ...
Tags: rebar, Metallurgy, Mineral
It is reported that international nickel prices return to the pattern of weak finishing, LME nickel prices dropped back to below US$14,000/ton. This week, Yieh United Steel Corp. (Yusco) expects to announce December prices. In fact, LME ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Nickel, Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral