In the first half of the current year, the total export volume of seamless steel pipes from Changshu in China's Jiangsu Province amounted to 17,004 mt, with export sales revenues totaling $64.8364 million, down 28.2 percent and 21.6 percent ...
Tags: Seamless Pipe Export, Mineral
It’s reported that Japanese Nisshin Steel decided to skip accepting orders for stainless cold rolled coils (CRC) for July contracts due to sluggish demand for stainless steel flat products. Nisshin Steel said that has cut ...
Tags: Nisshin Steel, Stainless CRC
Chung Hung Steel (CHS), the subsidiary company of Taiwan's China Steel Corp. (CSC) and also one of the major carbon steel flat re-rolling mills in Taiwan, has announced its sales revenue in May was NTD 2.84 billion, decreasing by 3.3% ...
Tags: Construction, steel
It is learned that Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel is to shut down a blast furnace and other upstream equipment at its Kobe Works plant in western Japan in the financial year 2017-18. The decision came after the announcement of ¥ 50.2 ...
Tags: Kobe Steel, Blast Furnace
Recently, the Brazilian steel mills have suspended exports of steel long products such as rebar and steel wires due to sluggish demand from overseas markets. The Brazilian steelmakers said that the international market was in a fierce ...
It's reported that the prices of medium heavy plates have fallen by US$10/ton in the Mexican market over the past two weeks due to sluggish demand. According to data, Mexico's output of medium heavy plates totaled 531,779 tons in the first ...
Tags: Construction, medium heavy plates
The spread between Asian styrene monomer and benzene prices widened to a six-week high of $356.50/mt Thursday, up $20/mt or 6% from a day earlier, as China's shrinking SM inventories lifted SM prices, Platts data showed. The last time the ...
Tags: SM-Benzene, Benzene
The average run rate at "teapot" refineries in China's Shandong province dropped to 36.5% in April from 42% in March, due to slow sales of oil products, according to data from Beijing-based energy information provider JYD Commodities Hub. ...
Tags: Apr, oil products
Yieh Hsing, one of the major wire rod manufacturers in Taiwan announced to leave its list prices unchanged for May. After the price announcement, its list prices for Al-killed wire rods are at NT$24,500/ton; those for rimmed wire rods are ...
Tags: Wire Rod, Wire Rod Prices
It’s reported that the Taiwanese stainless steelmakers are going to release its list prices for May next week. Industry sources predicted that the Taiwanese stainless producers might cut prices further by around NT$4,000~NT$5,000/ton ...
Tags: Stainless Steelmakers, Mineral
It's reported that the Chinese Benxi Steel announced that its net profits slumped by 91% from a year ago to RMB69.38 million in 2012. The company stated that high raw material prices and sluggish demand caused its net profits slump last ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Taigang Stainless, the largest stainless steel producers in China recently released its financial result for the first quarter of this year. In the first quarter of this year, Taigang Stainless realized sales incomes of RMB25.124 billion, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, energy, stainless steel
The Korean steelmaker Dongkuk Steel decided to reduce slab imports gradually. In the first quarter of this year, Korea's slab imports totaled 334,000 tons. The monthly imports averaged at 110,000 tons, falling by 80,000 tons in comparison ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Reportedly, Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) forecasted that its net income in the first quarter would be at around USI$10 million with sales of US$1.18 billion, in comparison of net income of US$56.2 million with sales of US$1.35 billion ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Affected by sluggish demand, the rebar prices dipped by US$15~US$20/ton in Colombian market early this month. In fact, the rebar prices had ever stood at US$840~US$850/ton in the Colombian market in the first quarter of this year. However, ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy