Reportedly, Japanese Nisshin Steel announced to restart its carbon steel cold rolling mill at its Sakai works in Osaka which was pending since a month ago due to fire accident. However, the plant doesn't operate normally because the company ...
Japan's exports of stainless steel flat products totaled 60,891 tons in May, decreasing by 4.2% from a month ago and falling by 3.5% year on year, according to data released by Japan's Ministry of Finance. In the first five months of this ...
Tags: Stainless Steel Flat, Steel, Construction
It's reported that Ukraine and China had launched the price war for the general use hot rolled plates with the prices reducing by US$60~US$70/ton in the past two months from the level of US$600/ton CFR for a time. The over production and ...
Tags: Steel, Construction
Brazilian Iron and Steel Institute (IABr) recently indicated that 13 million tons of finished steel on the first half year of 2013 were consumed in Brazil, increasing by only 0.6% compared to the same period last year. Following two ...
Tags: Construction, Steel
While employment and productivity in the construction industry are on the upswing nationwide, the West Coast is seeing slower growth in parts. Construction employment in Oregon and Washington is growing steadily, but slowly. California's ...
Najran Cement Company has said that its profits for the second quarter of 2013 increased by 140% year-on-year to $17.3m, while profits for the half year were up by 41% to $40.3m (SR: 151.2m). The company said the reason for the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Cement
Major infrastructure projects and extensive plans to galvanise residential construction have fuelled demand for building materials in Saudi Arabia, prompting the government to intervene in the cement market for the second time in as many ...
Tags: Cement, Construction, Decoration
Saudi cement firms, Yanbu Cement Co and Saudi Cement Co, have both announced positive results for the second quarter of 2013. Yanbu posted a 26.9% increase in net profit for the period to $73.1m (SAR 274m), up from last year's ...
Tags: Cement, Construction, Decoration
Reportedly, the Chinese steelmaker Shougang announced that estimated net loss of RMB250~RMB300 million for the first half of this year, in comparison of net loss of RMB349.43 million in the same period of a year ago. It's known that the net ...
Tags: Construction, steel
Korean steel giant Posco has given up to build a 6 million tons per year integrated steel mill in the south India and the company already stopped any work of this project. Posco mentioned delays in gaining approvals to mine and persisting ...
According to data released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's output of stainless steel products totaled 231,995 tons in May, up slightly by 0.7% from a month ago. Among them, 110,040 tons were chrome-based stainless steel products, ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Construction
Cin the first half of this year, decreasing by 1.5% year on year, according to data released by the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In the first half of this year, the country's output of crude steel was at 34.7 million ...
Tags: Rolled Steel, Construction
According to data released by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers, Ukraine's steel pipe output totaled 847,700 tons in the first half of this year, slumping by 24.5% in comparison of the figures in the same period of a year ago. In the given ...
Tags: Steel Pipe, Construction
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 ...
Tags: Construction, steel, Steel Estimates Net