In the week ended October 21, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 3.21 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes an increase of 0.6 ...
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China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (Oct. 14-20) the overall average finished steel price in China declined by 0.1 percent week on week. In the given week, average prices of 3 mm hot rolled sheet, 80 mm x 43 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Finished Steel
As of October 21, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 75.299 million mt, indicating an increase of 459,000 mt or 0.61 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on October 22. As of the given ...
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Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has issued its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2013, reporting an operating profit of €10 million in the third quarter, compared to an operating loss of 15 million in ...
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South Korean steelmaker POSCO has announced that Krakatau POSCO, its joint venture with Indonesia-based state-run steel company PT Krakatau Steel, began manufacturing coke in early October. In October 2010, POSCO came together with PT ...
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In August this year, iron ore production in Peru amounted to 289,838 long tons (293,637 mt), decreasing by 49 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, according to Peru's Energy and Mining Ministry. In the first eight months ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore
Russian pipe maker United Metallurgical Co (OMK) is planning to buy a spring steel mill, Chusovoy Steel Works (ChMZ). OMK hopes to complete the acquisition before the end of the year. Russia's federal anti-monopoly service (FAS) has ...
Tags: pig iron, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
In the first nine months of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 880.34 million mt, rising by 5.3 percent compared to the same period of 2012, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for approximately ...
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According to the preliminary data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 82 percent of total world DRI production in 2012 amounted ...
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In September this year, Italian crude steel output decreased by 10.4 percent year on year to 2.130 million metric tons, according to the figures released by Italian steel producers' association Federacciai. September is the 18th month in a ...
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On October 22, Sichuan Province-based Chinese state-owned steel producer Panzhihua Iron and Steel (Pangang Group) announced that in the current year up to October 15 its vanadium steel plant subsidiary, Pangang Vanadium Steel Co., produced ...
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In August this year, Turkey's steel scrap import volume declined by 15.57 percent year on year to 1,468,550 metric tons, down 16 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the third quarter of the current year Turkey's building construction cost index increased 2.3 percent quarter on quarter and was up 6.4 percent compared to ...
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In the January-September period this year, Ukraine's ferroalloy production decreased by 22.4 percent compared to the same period last year to 623,500 mt, according to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers (UkrFA). In the given ...
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According to report, China's largest stainless steelmaker, Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel, reported its third-quarter net profits dropped by 64.6% year-on-year to RMB 112.1 million. Its revenue rose 4.9% to RMB 28.6 billion in the third ...