While Chinese ferrosilicon offers remained high from rising Chinese semi-coke prices, offers heard have moved lower in Japan on thin trade, sources said. The Chinese 75% Si ferrosilicon price assessment was unchanged week on week at ...
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Belarus-based Byelorussian Steel Works (BMZ) has stated the electric arc furnace-1 at its Electric Steel Melting Shop-1 has produced its 15 millionth metric ton of steel, as the thirtieth anniversary of the foundation of BMZ approaches. ...
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AK Steel announced Wednesday that for the third quarter of 2014, the company expects shipments of approximately 1,350,000 tons, a decrease of approximately 3 percent from the 1,398,000 tons shipped in the second quarter of 2014. Shipments ...
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Austria-based steel producer voestalpine has announced that it has signed another agreement with Mexican steelmaker Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) for the supply of 400,000 mt of hot briquetted iron (HBI) produced in Texas. ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will supply a 150-ton, twin RH vacuum degassing plant for the Mexican steel producer Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA). The new plant will be installed at AHMSA's ...
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Warren Steel is asking Ohio regulators for an electricity rate discount the company says could allow it to attract "strategic partnerships" and reopen its Warren steelmaking plant that was shut in late March. Warren is the latest in a ...
US steel sheet prices stayed flat on Tuesday as mills remained reluctant to offer lower prices, but sources noted that downward pricing pressure is continuing to develop. Platts maintained its hot-rolled coil assessment at $675-685/st, ...
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Italian steel producer Lucchini is expected to shut down its blast furnace in Piombino on Wednesday, April 23, after trying to postpone the inevitable end by halting production on Friday, April 18 and using limited raw materials, according ...
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In the manufacturer of the High Carbon Ferro Manganese is also producing the Ferro Silico Manganese in the same plant to produce the better quality steel products. Generally the product High Carbon Ferro Manganese is used as the additive to ...
The Chinese export spot price of 75%-Si ferrosilicon was assessed at $1,410-1,440/mt FOB Thursday, compared with $1,410-1,450/mt a week ago, on slow domestic and export demand. This week, an Inner Mongolia-based producer sold around 300 ...
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Russian pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has announced its acquisition of Russia-based Chusovoy Steel Works (ChSW), one of Europe's largest producers of car springs. ChSW manufactures 400 types of springs, which are ...
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Nickel prices are likely to be pushed higher in 2014 if Indonesia introduces an export ban on laterite nickel ore, which would tighten supply particularly for China, according to Dan Loughner, the head of Australian nickel producer Western ...
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While most market sources on Friday said they were unsure why domestic mills have yet to increase US steel sheet prices in response to rising scrap prices, at least one service center executive said it may be the result of relatively ...
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While most market sources on Friday said they were unsure why domestic mills have yet to increase US steel sheet prices in response to rising scrap prices, at least one service center executive said it may be the result of relatively ...
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In the first 10 months this year, French crude steel output decreased by 1.32 percent year on year to 13.19 million mt, according to the latest data released by the French Steel Federation (FFA). In the given period, electric arc furnace ...
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