China's steel industry improved its profitability in the first seven months, due to rising steel prices, an industry insider said Saturday. Although sales revenues of 373 steel companies fell 11.91 percent to 1.5 trillion yuan (225 ...
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Premier Li Keqiang has pledged "firmer resolve and greater efforts" to tackle the long-standing problem of industrial overcapacity as "old growth drivers" such as manufacturing and investment continue to struggle. China is experiencing a ...
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Global woes drag crude prices, as demand continues to decline in China Retail fuel prices will be lowered slightly from Wednesday to better reflect the global fall in crude prices and the glut in the market, the nation's top economic ...
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The China Steel and Iron Association and several industry partners joined hands to set up the Steel E-commerce Research Center on Monday, with an eye on upgrading and transforming the industry reeling from low profits. The research ...
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First-quarter steel exports surged 40.7 percent to 25.78 million metric tons as mills responded to weak domestic demand and falling prices, the China Iron and Steel Association said on Wednesday. "Although domestic steel companies face ...
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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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Russkaya Stal (Russian Steel), a non-prot association of Russian domestic steelmakers, has reported that its main member enterprises produced 4.77 million mt of finished steel in May this year, up 2.5 percent from April and also increasing ...
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Speaking at SteelHome's 10th Steel Development Strategy Conference held in Shanghai over the weekend, Wu Wenzheng from SteelHome indicated that the overcapacity problem in China cannot be resolved in the short term, adding that many steel ...
Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel companies, has announced that its contract with Baosteel Resources, the raw materials-focused wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinese steelmaking major Baosteel, which provides for an increase ...
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According to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel) for 2014 and 2015, the worldsteel Economics Committee has revised down its global apparent steel consumption growth forecast to 3.1 percent from the growth ...
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The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has stated that 64 CEOs of European steel companies have urged the heads of state and governments in Europe to restore the balance between industrial, energy and climate policies in order to preserve ...
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The profitability of steelmakers based in China's Hebei Province remained low in 2013, with 16 percent of key steel companies in the province suffering losses, according to media reports citing the recent 2014 board meeting of the Hebei ...
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Now that Mexican President Enrique Pera Nieto has signed the Pacific Alliance between Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Costa Rica, Mexican steel companies await notice that Mexico is excluded from the application of trade safeguards ...
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Iron ore demand intensity in China will fall further amid continuous drops in steel market prices and lower steel outputs, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) said in its monthly report published on its official website. Chinese ...
ZHANG CHENGLIANG/CHINA DAILY Although China's economic growth is slowing down, ongoing urbanization will still strongly support demand for iron ore and steel products for a long time. "We have confidence in China's iron ore demand because ...