Baosteel Group, the largest steel smelter in China by output, has predicted yearly profit growth of six to eight fold this year. The company registered 8.1 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) of profits in the first three quarters, up 174.6 ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, Steed Bar, Medium Plates, Cold-Rolled Sheets
Prices for hot-rolled and cold-rolled coil in the US are expected to bottom out by the end of the year, sources said Tuesday. Platts maintained its daily HRC and CRC assessments at $360-$370/st and $490-$500/st, respectively. Both prices ...
Tags: hot-rolled coil, cold-rolled coil
CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting), manufacturer of high performance, energy-efficient lighting solutions for commercial and residential projects, has released their newest Eco-Downlight offerings: 1", 3" and 5" LPD (Low Power Density) ...
Tags: CSL, Eco-Downlights, LEDs
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has introduced CORROKLEEN 44 rust remover, an application-friendly citric-acid-based gel cleaner that is more effective at removing rust and mill scale and safer for both users and the ...
According to the monitoring of MOFCOM, the prices of major farm produce and means of production in 36 large and medium-sized cities fell slightly last week (March 30-April 5). The average price of 18 vegetables was down 0.9% compared with ...
Tags: farm produce, vegetables, coal
Mainly benefiting cost savings from utilization of in-stock raw materials procured earlier at lower prices, Taiwan-based China Steel Corp. (CSC), the island's largest steelmaker by size, therefore chalked up a 54-percent growth in pretax ...
Tags: raw material, global market, coking coal, iron ore
Latin American countries imported 5 million mt of finished steel from China in the first seven months of 2015, 6% more than the 4.7 million mt imported in the same period in 2014, the Latin American Steel Association (Alacero) said Tuesday. ...
Tags: Long steel, finished steel
Continuing the company’s ongoing commitment to provide customers with the high-performance solutions they need to create market-leading products, Sartomer announces the release of CN9030, a new difunctional aliphatic urethane ...
PPG Industries' commercial coatings group has added CFX744 CORROKLEEN 44 Rust Remover to its ONECHOICE Commercial universal ancillary brand. The new addition is an environmentally responsible, low-impact citric acid gel cleaner that serves ...
Tags: Special Purpose Coatings, Coatings
The European Commission has announced that it has ordered the registration of cold rolled stainless flat imports from China and Taiwan, highlighting the possibility of imposing antidumping and countervailing duties for both import sources. ...
Tags: import sources, flat imports, Metallurgy
The US sheet steel market remained stable but sluggish Monday as buyers sought price direction following last week's Thanksgiving holiday. One buyer said he believes the hot-rolled base price is at or close to bottom at about $630/st. ...
Tags: sheet steel, hot-rolled base, Mineral
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that the US imported a total of 4,398,000 net tons (nt) of steel in October, including 3,396,000 nt of finished steel (up 12.8 percent ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Iron Steel
In the January-September period of this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 2.9 percent on year-on-year basis to 4.78 million metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. 53 percent ...
Tags: CR Sheet, cold rolled strip
In the January-September period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 618.00 million mt, up 2.3 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The growth rate in ...
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Friday that the US imported a total of 3,892,000 net tons (nt) of steel in September, including 2,946,000 nt of finished steel (up 5.2 percent ...
Tags: Import Market, 29 Percent, Energy