In the first quarter this year, Italy's steel exports to non-European Union (EU) countries totaled 1.13 million metric tons, down by 19.2 percent, while its steel imports from non-EU sources totaled 2.053 million metric tons, up 53.3 ...
Tags: Italy, Flat Steel
In the January-April period of this year, Russian exports of semi-finished steel products decreased by 10.5 percent year on year to 4.45 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). As previously reported, ...
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In March this year, Japan's seasonally adjusted industrial production increased 0.9 percent over the previous month, while the original index indicated a decrease of 6.7 percent compared to the same month last year. The country's seasonally ...
Tags: Iron and Steel, Mineral
Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013. Accordingly, in the first quarter Severstal registered a net profit of $44 million, down almost 90 percent compared to the corresponding quarter ...
Tags: Severstal, Net Profit, Q1
The Court of Taranto has finally released the steel stocks of Italian steelmaker Ilva which had been seized by court order since November 26 last year. Taranto-based Ilva is now free to sell the steel products in question which consist of ...
Tags: Ilva, Impounded Steel Stocks
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in April of the current year the wholesale selling prices of industrial products in Germany were 0.4 percent lower compared to April 2012, the first year-on-year price decrease ...
Tags: Metal Prices, Mineral
Africa's largest steel producer, ArcelorMittal South Africa, has announced its financial results for the first quarter of the current year, reporting a net loss of ZAR 275 million ($30.2 million) compared to a net profit of ZAR 279 million ...
Tags: Arcelormittal, Vanderbijlpark Fire
Due to port strike in Chile and India's main casting factory shut down, lead to transport delay, as a result, China's copper imports fell 7.4% in April 2013, to the lowest level in nearly 22 months. According to China's general ...
Tags: copper, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to data released by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Brazil exported 180,700 tons of steel flat products in April, jumping by 49.3% from March and soaring by 60.7% year on year. In April, the ...
Tags: Steel Flats, Steel Flats Exports
In April of the current year, China imported 67.15 million mt of iron ore and iron ore concentrate, up 16.4 percent year on year and increasing by 2.6 million mt month on month, according to the figures released by China's General ...
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Brazil's iron ore export volume amounted to 23.35 million mt in April this year, increasing 3.4 percent compared to March and down by 8.6 percent compared to the same month of 2012, according to the preliminary information released by the ...
Tags: Flat Steel Exports, Mineral
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q2 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the first quarter of 2013 European Union (EU) steel exports increased by four percent ...
Tags: EUROFER, Steel Exports
It's reported that Scana Industrier ASA, a Nordic industrial group said that its steel production business unit, Scana Steel Bj?rneborg has again been awarded a long term sales contract with German based ALFING Kessler, the largest ...
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According to the customs statistics released by the Japanese Ministry of Finance, Japan's iron and steel product exports in March this year amounted to 4.1 million metric tons, increasing by 4.7 percent compared to the same month of 2012 ...
Tags: Steel Exports, Mineral
Taranto-based Italian steel producer Ilva has been granted the green light by local magistrates to ship 63,700 meters of steel pipes for an order worth $45 million totaling 136,200 meters placed by Iraq Oil Project Company. On April 24, ...
Tags: Ilva, Green Light, Steel Pipes