The Vietnam Steel Association (VSA) announced that Vietnam's output of steel long products totaled 2.26 million tons in the first half of this year, down by 2.1% year on year. In the given period of time, the country's sales volumes of ...
Tags: Steel, Construction
It's reported that China's steelmaker Lingyuan Steel estimated that its net profits would be at RMB30~RMB40 million for the first half of this year, in comparison of net profits of RMB232 million in the same period of a year ago. Lingyuan ...
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Taigang Stainless, the largest stainless producer in China announced to cut its export offer prices for austenitic stainless steel coils by US$300/ton for deliveries till end of September due to lower nickel prices and weak market prices. ...
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INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, announced the availability of a new report, entitled "North American Wipes Market: Trends & Forecasts 2012-2017." Brad Kalil, INDA's Director of Market Research and Statistics, said, "We ...
The U.S. cotton crop forecast for 2013 remains at 13.5 million bales this month and is projected 3.8 million bales below 2012. Despite an increase in planted area based on the June Acreage report, the crop was left unchanged as area ...
Johnson & Johnson, a New Jersey-based health care firm, has reported that its profits in the second quarter of fiscal 2013 has more than doubled, partly due to strong sales of medical-devices and medicines. In the second quarter, the net ...
The combined value of paid apps, app-enabled purchases of goods and services, and in-app advertising is expected to double to $151 billion in the U.S. by 2017, AppNation said today. According to the research firm, the largest segment of ...
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Egypt's EZZ Steel exported big percentage of rebar before 2007, but adjusted the long product sales to mainly on domestic market contributed to local strong demand. In 2012, export accounted only 3% of its long products but now they would ...
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It's reported that Korean steel giant Posco is considering to draw out a US$5.3 billion steel mill project in India's Karnataka state. Posco is trying to expand in oversea and signed a preliminary agreement with the state in 2010. However, ...
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Turkey-based Posco Assan TST, a stainless producing joint venture built by Korean steel giant Posco and Turkey's Assan Celik announced that it has made the first shipment of 1.5 mm stainless coils in July 14th. It's known that Posco Assan ...
It's reported that China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan announced to cut its prices for hot rolled, cold rolled and galvanized steel product leeway by NT$500/ton for July. Meanwhile, CSC planned to release 10,000 ...
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It's reported that India's hot rolled coil (HRC) market remains stable currently. India steel mills hiked the HRC prices by US$17~US$21/ton last week but there was no transaction due to the weak demand in local market. The HRC prices have ...
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According to data released by the Brazilian steel institute (IABr), Brazil's crude steel output totaled 2.83 million tons in June, rising by 2.7% year on year bur rising by 6% from a month ago. In June, the country's production of finished ...
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It's reported that the Japanese Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp (NSSMC) planned to raise its prices of H beam and bright bars by ¥3,000/ton for July production, in spit of high stocks in the market. It's learned that the local ...
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According to data, Taiwan imported around 16,233 tons of wire rods in June, slumping by 35.5% from a month ago. Among them, 15,520 tons were wire rods with diameters less than 14mm, falling by 36.6%; 713 tons were wire rods with diameters ...
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