China has expressed doubts about exorbitant tariffs imposed by the European Union (EU) on steel products from China, calling for an end to such unfair measures. The European Commission, the EU's executive body, recently announced its ...
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A slowdown in China is the greatest threat to the global economy, Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff told BBC in a curious interview in late September. "The [Chinese] economy is slowing down much more than the official figures show." As the ...
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CSC’s chairman Sung confirms his company’s investment valued at NT$4 billion in developing solar power business (photo courtesy of UDN.com).The Taiwan-based China Steel Corp. (CSC), the island's largest steelmaker by size, has ...
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The North American coal industry remains negatively positioned for 2016 with thermal coal facing a slow, long-term decline and metallurgical coal prices unlikely to recover within the next 12 months, a Moody's Investors Service note said ...
Brazilian iron ore miner Samarco may be out of iron ore pellets within three weeks following a fatal tailings dam collapse last week, a source familiar with the company said Monday. An indefinite stoppage could affect global pellet ...
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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 ...
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RIA Novosti reported that global steel output in the first 11 months of 2014 was 1.498 billion tons, increasing 1.8% on year. China produced 749 million tons of steel, up 1.9% on year, ranking first. Russia followed China with 64.794 ...
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Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that its European unit is providing 310,000 mt of hot rolled coils (HRC) from its production site in Bremen, Germany, more than one third of all the hot rolled coils needed for the Trans ...
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Although dwindling domestic demand and excess capacity have shrunk profit margins for most Chinese steelmakers, it has inspired some to tap overseas markets for sustained, long-term growth. Hebei Iron &Steel Co, China's second-largest ...
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ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, has announced that it has completed the capital repair of the conveyer C-19 with АС-19 inclined burden discharger at Ore Benefication Plant No. ...
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The global apparent steel demand for 2014 will increase by two percent to 1.56 billion metric tons, following a growth of 3.8 percent in 2013, according to the short range outlook presented at the 48th annual meeting of the World Steel ...
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Speaking at the 48th annual meeting of worldsteel (World Steel Association) held in Moscow on October 6, Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff, chairman of the worldsteel Economics Committee said that with a seven percent negative GDP growth expected ...
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In the January-September period of the current year, the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 4.7177 million mt, down one percent year on year, as announced by ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting in Berlin, Kim Marti, international sales director of Spanish steel producer CELSA Group, said that the key risks to the global economy, such as geopolitical tensions ...
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, has announced that it is about to invest more than $70 million in the construction of a pulverized coal injection (PCI) system at its blast furnace No. 9, ...
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