The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has stated that recent data on industrial production and unemployment signal that the EU economy continued to weaken in the first months of 2013, while the performance gap between Germany on the one ...
Ohio-based Republic Steel, a subsidiary of Mexican Simec SAB de CV has contracted with United State Steel Corporation(USSC) to supply maximum of 450,000 tons of tube rounds for USSC's tubular products from its new installed Electric Arc ...
Global steel use is expected to increase by 2.9% to 1.5bn tonnes during 2013, following a growth of 1.2% in 2012, according to the latest World Steel Association (worldsteel) estimates. The association’s Short Range Outlook (SRO) ...
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ThyssenKrupp, a German multinational conglomerate corporation has planned to cooperate with Ansteel, who is the second largest steel maker in China to construct a new hot dip galvanized production line for expansion. This joint venture ...
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According to the Japanese Ministry of Trade (METI), Japanese demand for crude steel in the second quarter of the current year is expected to decrease by 0.9 percent from the previous quarter to 26.4 million mt, with an expected decline of ...
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World Steel said that the global steel demand would rise by 2.9% to 1.454 billion tons in 2013. Furthermore, it would grow by another 3.2% to 1.5 billion tons in 2014. Also, World Steel predicted that China’ steel demand would ...
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Steel demand in the the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region is expected to grow by 3.2 percent to 65.2 million metric tons in 2013, after 2.2 percent growth in 2012, aided by reconstruction activities in the Arab Spring countries and ...
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According to the latest ‘Stainless Steel Report April 2013' issued by Germany-based service centre Damstahl, in 2012 European stainless crude steel production amounted approximately to 7.5 million mt, falling around one percent ...
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ccording to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel), apparent steel consumption in the US is expected to grow by 2.7 percent in 2013 due to continuing fiscal concerns, totaling 99.3 million mt, lower than the 8.4 ...
Growth of apparent steel use in the CIS region is projected to slowdown to two percent this year, totaling 57.6 million metric tons, as the modest pickup in Russia is partially mitigated by declining demand in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, ...
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In 2013, apparent steel consumption in China is expected to increase by 3.5 percent to 668.8 million mt after a 1.9 percent increase in 2012, according to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel) for 2013 and ...
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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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In March this year, China’s State Council issued its new regulatory policy on the domestic real estate market, indicating that local governments should issue specific policies based on the State Council’s regulations. As of ...
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Speaking at the International Steel Trade Day organized by STSG-Eurometal in Milan on April 4, Juergen Nusser, managing director of Eurometal, presented a negative outlook for the European steel market in 2013. Demand fell by 9.5 ...
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