According to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel) for 2013 and 2014, worldsteel Economics Committee revised down its global apparent steel consumption growth forecast to 2.9 percent from its October 2012 ...
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According to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel), steel demand in the European Union (EU) is expected to contract further by 0.5 percent in 2013, well below the 2.4 percent growth which had been forecast in ...
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According to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in May this year Ukraine's crude steel production is expected to fall by an estimated 4.2 percent compared to March this year to 2.75 million mt. According to ...
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According to the statistics released by the Taiwanese Ministry of Finance, in March this year Taiwan's export value of iron and steel and articles made from iron and steel amounted to $1.65 billion, increasing by 0.9 percent compared to the ...
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According to the 2012 review of the steel market published by the European Steel Association (EUROFER), crude steel production in the European Union amounted to 168 million mt in the given year, down five percent compared to 2011. Similar ...
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In the January-February period of this year Russia's ferrous metal exports decreased by 6.1 percent year on year to 5.501 million mt, including 280,300 mt of pig iron, down 34.5 percent year on year, according to the State Statistics ...
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According to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat), in the January-February period of this year Russia's exports of iron ore stayed at the level of the same period last year at 4.319 million mt, worth a total of $359.3 million, ...
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According to data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF), Japan's shipments of cold rolled (CR) sheets and strips totaled 533,735 tons in February, rising by 5.8% from a month ago while falling by 3.3% year on year. Among ...
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It's reported that TMK, one of the major steel pipe producers in Russia said that its subsidiary OFS International LLC has acquired 100% stake in ITS Tubular Services located in Houston, Texas, US. It's known that ITS Tubular Services is ...
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At its extraordinary general meeting to be held on April 29, Romania-based steel producer Mechel Targoviste will vote for the approval of the change of the company's name to Special Steel Plant (COS) Targoviste. The name had been changed to ...
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In March this year, Ukrainian steelmaker Zaporizhstal's finished steel product output increased by 4.7 percent to 278,800 mt, while its crude steel production increased by 0.7 percent to 328,700 mt, both year on year, according to the ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in February this year Turkey's stainless flat steel imports fell by 2.3 percent compared to the previous month and were stable compared to February 2012, amounting ...
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The Indian steel rim producer Steel Strips Wheels Ltd (SSWL) has announced that it registered net sales of INR 926 million ($17.05 million) in March, up 5.12 percent compared to the corresponding month of 2012. In terms of units sold, in ...
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China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced that during last week (March 25-31) the average steel price in China decreased by 0.2 percent compared to the previous week. In particular, in the given week prices of 12 mm diameter rebar, ...
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In its financial results according to international financial reporting standards (IFRS) for 2012, Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest's net profit increased by 20.4 percent compared to ...
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