Italy's hot rolled flat steel output amounted to 929,000 mt in February this year, down 33.7 percent year on year, according to the Italian steel producers association Federacciai. February was the sixth month in a row in which a ...
Tags: Flat Steel Output, Mineral
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal is starting mothballing of its two blast furnaces at its Florange site in Lorraine, France on Wednesday, April 24, according to media reports. The company expects to complete the shutdown of the hot stoves ...
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ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Ostrava (AMTPO), the biggest producer of tubes and pipes in the Czech Republic, has announced that it has concluded an important contract for supplies of water tubes with polypropylene coating for an extensive ...
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In the week from April 15 to April 21, the scrap indexes moved sideways on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index started to increase following three weeks of downward movement. While the Black Sea HRC Export ...
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India's Supreme Court has decided to lift the mining ban in Karnataka state, allowing 18 more mines, both category A and B, to resume operations 21 months after imposing a mining ban in the state for environmental reasons, according to ...
Brazil-based miner Vale's giant iron ore vessel Valemax has entered an eastern Chinese port to unload a cargo of iron ore, according to media reports, though it is not clear if the ban on Vale's mega iron ore vessels imposed by China has ...
Tags: Valemax Ore Vessel, Chinese Port
Ukrainian steel pipe and wheel producer Interpipe has announced that its new electric furnace-based steelmaking complex Dneprostal (Interpipe Steel) produced approximately 110,000 mt of steel in March this year in line with the scheduled ...
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During the panel discussion at the SteelOrbis Market Talks Meeting held in Turkey's capital Ankara on April 12, Veysel Yayan, general secretary of the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (DCUD), informed participants that Turkey ...
Tags: Veysel Yayan, Steel Consumption
During the panel discussion at the SteelOrbis Market Talks Meeting held in the Turkish capital Ankara on April 12, Namik Ekinci, chairman of the Turkish Steel Exporters' Association (CIB), underlined that, since there is not enough demand ...
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The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service has announced that it has initiated an accelerated review of the current antidumping duty notice and countervailing duty notice in respect of certain hollow structural section (HSS) ...
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In the week from April 1 to April 7, the Turkish scrap index continued to move downwards, while the US (East Coast) HMS I/II scrap export index switched to sideways movement on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish HRC and ...
Tags: Scrap, Steel Index, Mineral
The 30 percent Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) in Australia requiring mining companies to pay tax when their annual profits reach $75 million, a measure designed so as not to burden small businesses, raised only A$126 million in the ...
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During the International Steel Trade Day organized by STSG-Eurometal in Milan on April 4, SteelOrbis interviewed Ralph Oppenheimer, chairman of Stemcor and STSG (Eurometal's Steel Trade Study Group), seeking his views on how the problem of ...
At 11th International Steel Market and Trade Conference held in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, Zhang Jinghua, the vice president of Beijing-based state-owned Sinosteel Corporation, stated that China’s steel trading sector is ...
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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