According to Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), the Brazilian steel industry expects to increase its production in Brazil in 2014. The CEO of IABr, Mr. Marco Polo de Mello Lopes said the industry is still working on the outlook for next year, ...
Tags: Brazil Steel, Mineral
UK-based London Mining, a global diversified miner targeting the steel sector, has announced its operational results for the third quarter of 2013, reporting a total sales volume of 890,000 wet mt of iron ore concentrate, compared to ...
Demand from China's galvanized steel sector is expected to account for 56% of the country's refined zinc consumption in 2014, up from 54% this year, state-owned nonferrous metals information division Beijing Antaike said Thursday. The ...
Tags: Galvanized Steel, Zinc Demand
Global steelmakers, metallurgical coal miners and merchant coke producers are feeling the heat thanks to sluggish steel and coal prices coupled with the prospect of higher energy costs in the US due to regulation, participants said Tuesday ...
Tags: steel, Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in September this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit increased by 7.6 percent to $7.5 ...
Tags: steel, Construction
In October this year, the purchasing managers' index (PMI) of the steel sector in China's Hebei Province decreased to 43.5 percent, down 0.4 percentage points month on month, declining for the second consecutive month, as announced by the ...
Tags: Hebei Province Steel, Mineral
The Environmental Protection Agency of the Chinese city of Tianjin has announced that it plans to eliminate 1.4 million mt and 2.29 million mt respectively of outdated steel and cement production capacities in the city before the end of the ...
Tags: Steel Output Capacity, Mineral
UK-based London Mining, a global diversified miner targeting the steel sector, has announced that it has been granted an exclusive 30-year exploitation license for its wholly-owned Isua iron ore project in Greenland. The Isua project with a ...
Tags: Iron Ore Project, Mineral
The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) has announced that the China Steel Price Index (CSPI) stood at 100.57 points at the end of September, down 1.54 points month on month, ending the month-on-month uptrend recorded in July and ...
Tags: Steel, Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Chinese steelmakers, already obsessed with low profit margins, have been told to increase their environmental investment to help the country reduce air pollution. As part of an action plan to curb air pollution, the Chinese government is ...
Tags: steel, Construction
Italy's Riva Acciaio is starting to discuss with the judicial custodian on the issue of whether they are able to resume the mills' operations. Riva Acciaio plants are under examination. The Italian steel federation, Federacciai, requested ...
Tags: Construction, steel
BEIJING-Signs of more appetite in China for steel and other materials and equipment used in construction add to evidence of an economic rebound, but one driven by a return to ramped-up spending on infrastructure and heavy industry the ...
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China's business activity surged to a 17-month high in August, providing fresh evidence that the protracted economic slowdown in China may be bottoming out. Industrial production gained 10.4 percent from a year earlier, picking up from ...
Tags: Steel Leads, Steel Sector
It might sound ridiculous for a steelmaker to raise pigs, but Chinese steelmaking firms are showing unprecedented interest in non-steel businesses to cope with the challenge of low profits amid a downturn. Non-steel business turnover of ...
Tags: steel, Non-Steel, Construction
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in July this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit increased 22.5 percent to $9.8 billion ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy