South Africa's primary carbon and alloy steel product imports (excluding semi-finished steel, stainless steel and drawn wire) amounted to 130,543 mt in February this year, increasing by 41.7 percent compared to January and up 11.2 percent ...
Tags: Carbon, Alloy Steel
Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has announced that it will produce 10,000 mt of X70 rolled pipe plates with improved mechanical properties for an ...
In March this year, the average aggregate daily crude steel output in China amounted to 2.2661 million mt, up 2.2 percent compared to the average daily figure recorded in the January-February period this year and constituting a new record ...
Tags: Crude Steel, NBS
In the first two months of this year, Colombia exported 23,349 mt of ferronickel, increasing by 30.8 percent, with a value of $96.17 million, down 5.8 percent, both year on year, as announced by the Colombian National Administrative ...
Tags: Ferronickel, Ferronickel Exports
Iron ore prices are likely to drop to $115/dry mt CFR China this year, lower than Q1's $120.68/dmt average, forcing as much as 70-80 million mt/year of high-cost Chinese supplies to shut, Standard Bank said Monday. Iron ore reference ...
Tags: Iron Ore, iron ore demand
New video hints that Iron Man and co are soon to be playable characters in the video game. Marvel Entertainment has released a video hinting that The Avengers are joining the world of Disney Infinity. The video, title 'Get Ready to ...
Indian miner Vedanta Resources has announced that in the January-March period this year it produced 1.5 million mt of iron ore, after resuming mining operations in the Indian state of Karnataka on December 28, following clearance from the ...
Tags: Vedanta Resources, mining
On April 10, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in the first quarter this year it exported 375,000 mt of finished steel, up 26 percent, with an export value of $220 million, ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Iron, Steel
Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that its subsidiary Hebei Iron and Steel Group Mining Co. (Hebei Steel Mining) produced 2.078 million mt of iron ore concentrate in the January-March period of ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Concentrate Output, Steel
In February of the current year, steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic sectors in Japan amounted to 4.72 million metric tons, up 1.32 percent compared to February 2013, according to the data released by the ...
Tags: Steel Product, specialty steels
According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa (SSA), in February this year South Africa's manufacturing output rose by 1.4 percent compared to the same month of 2013. The main reasons for the increase included the ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Output
In March this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports decreased by 0.9 percent year on year and increased by 28.6 percent compared to February to $1.63 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry ...
According to figures issued by Russian Railways, in March this year direct deliveries of cast iron, rolled steel, pipes and semi-finished products to locomotive, car repair and car production plants in Russia (including dual-purpose ...
Tags: Steel Product, Automakers
Team of building enthusiasts take to Kickstarter to fund range of plush iconic US buildings. Everyone likes a good iron girder. But have you ever eyed up a building that you just want to hug? Neither have we. But we have discovered a ...
Akzo Nobel Coatings International has been granted a patent for a chip-resistant powder topcoat on a steel substrate having a corrosion resistant powder coating basecoat thereon. The topcoat is comprised of the cured or fused product of a ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coatings