Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) has announced that on August 6 construction work started on its high-strength galvanized auto steel sheet project in Yufu Industrial Park in Liangjiang New ...
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Sao Paulo, Brazil-based iron ore mining company and flat rolled steel producer Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2013. In the second quarter, CSN registered a net income of ...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based L.B. Foster Company reported Q2 net sales of $149.9 million decreased by $13.2 million or 8.1 percent compared to the prior year quarter due to a 10.3 percent decline in Rail segment sales and an 8.7 percent ...
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According to the statistics released by the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, in the first half of this year France's basic steel product and ferroalloy exports amounted to a value of €4.8 billion, decreasing by 11.1 ...
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Indirect trade (exports of manufactured goods with significant steel content) from China to Latin America reached $20.8 million during the first six months of 2013, 7 percent of total Chinese exports, similar to levels recorded during the ...
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An insider from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has disclosed that the ministry is carrying out checks on a second batch of domestic steel enterprises to see whether they conform with required standards in the ...
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Moldavian Metallurgical Works (MMZ), a steelmaker based in the Transnistrian region of Moldova, has announced that it restarted production on August 5, after a stoppage of over six months. MMZ had stopped production and shipments in ...
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Canton, Ohio-based special bar quality (SBQ) steel producer Republic Steel said late Monday that it experienced a failure at the transformer that supplies power to the #7 Furnace in the Canton, Ohio melt shop on Friday, August 2, 2013. ...
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Russian steelmaker MMK's Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji has announced that it has reached a settlement with Turkish labor union Celik-Is within the scope of collective labor agreement negotiations and so the strike action which ...
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The demand for improved telecom connectivity in Canada's North is real, says a new Conference Board of Canada report, and "the interest in the issue has never been greater". Published by the Centre for the North, "Mapping the Long-Term ...
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In the January-July period of the current year, Russian coal exports increased by 11.6 percent year on year to 81.09 million mt, including 12.6 million of coking coal, up 75 percent year on year, according to the State Statistics Committee ...
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Russian mining and steel group Mechel has announced that it has started supplying coal concentrate to the People's Republic of China by rail through the new Makhalino-Hunсhun border checkpoint. The first cargo train was dispatched ...
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JSW Steel, one of the largest Indian steelmakers, has posted a 40 percent year-on-year increase in crude steel production to 991,000 mt in July 2013. According to the company's statement, in first quarter of the current fiscal year JSW ...
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According to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat), in the January-July period of this year total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber ...
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Swiss-headquartered iron ore miner Ferrexpo, whose main interests are in Ukrainian iron ore assets, has announced its financial results for the first half of the current year. In the given period, Ferrexpo's net profit decreased by 14.3 ...