In the January-February period of the current year, Russian exports of semi-finished steel products decreased by 9.5 percent year on year to 2.03 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In February ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
Canadian steelmaker Ivaco Rolling Mills announced Monday that it will receive a $7 million loan from the Ontario provincial government to modernize its steel billet and hot-rolled wire rod facility in L’Orignal, Ontario. Plans for ...
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East China's ferrous scrap prices fell sharply this week amid weaker raw material, finished steel and steel futures markets in the first-half of the week. Platts assessed heavy scrap over 6 mm at Yuan 2,320/mt ($377/mt) on a delivered ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Raw Material, Steel Markets
Integrated producers may have hit a cost floor on sheet products, and an increase is looking more and more likely, market sources told Platts Thursday. "We're at the point where these mills are going to be at their breaking point or their ...
Concrete is ubiquitous in our world today. According to the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), concrete is second only to water as the most-consumed material on earth, and twice as much concrete is used in construction worldwide than ...
NEI Corporation recently introduced NANOMYTE TC‐5001, a nanotechnology-enabled, single component, clear coating that significantly improves the corrosion resistance of zinc‐plated and hot‐dip galvanized (HDG) steel. It is ...
Tags: Coating, Construction, Decoration
In January this year, Turkey's steel scrap import volume increased by 28.76 percent year on year to 1.95 million metric tons, up 2.75 percent compared to the December, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute ...
Tags: steel scrap, Scrap, Metallurgy
In February this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports increased by 12.7 percent year on year and decreased by 18.6 percent compared to January to $1.29 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, Metallurgy
In January this year, Japan's galvanized sheet output increased by 0.77 percent compared to December and was up 3.98 percent year on year, amounting to 1.03 million mt, according to data from the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF). In ...
Tags: Galvanized, Metallurgy, Mineral
Hot tapping is a procedure where particular tools are used to cut into a present pipeline while it is still in the functioning mode. It may comprise of liquid or even gas and it will be under the pressure and so certainly it is arrived with ...
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The rapid strides made by the formwork and scaffolding industry globally are for there for everyone to see. What this has also meant is that today you have several scaffolding manufacturers vying for their share of the market. If you are ...
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Trader procurement continued to boost spot demand in the Asian iron ore market, as trades got concluded at increasingly higher levels on the day, supporting a firming market. The Platts 62% Fe Iron Ore Index rose $2.75/dmt to $111.50/dmt ...
Tags: Iron Ore Market, spot demand, steelmaker
The coal industry in North China's Shanxi province faces mounting pressure to get financing amid slumping coal prices and increasing debts, as experts call for greater freedom for non-governmental financial institutions. "The performance ...
Tags: Coal Industry, coal prices, non-governmental financial institutions
Chinese steelmakers cut their scrap purchase prices steadily this week, following the downward trend in futures and steelmaking raw materials markets, led by Shagang Group, the country's largest scrap consumer in eastern China's Jiangsu ...
Tags: Steelmakers, Iron Ore, raw materials
The promotion of new projects in the automotive industry will break a new steel production record for Mexico, pointing to some 19 million tons, said Hugo Solis, president of Mexico’s chapter of the Association for Iron and Steel ...