According to a report Thursday from the Lake Carriers’ Association, coal shipments on the US Great Lakes totaled 373,000 tons in January. While the total represents an increase of 62 percent compared to a year ago, January 2013 was ...
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Mexican steel producer DeAcero released a request Thursday that the US Department of Commerce avoid trade disputes with Mexico and focus on the defense of NAFTA regions, which receive unfair imports from China and the European Union. In ...
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According to the flash estimates released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, during the fourth quarter last year gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.3 percent in the euro area and by 0.4 percent in the EU-28, ...
In December last year, the price, calendar and seasonally adjusted industrial production in Germany decreased by 0.5 percent compared to the previous month, according to the preliminary data released by the German Federal Ministry for ...
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Swiss-headquartered resources company Ferrexpo, whose main interests are in Ukrainian iron ore assets, has announced that in January this year its overall iron ore concentrate production from its own raw materials increased by 10.9 percent ...
UAE-based steel producer Emirates Steel Industries (ESI) has announced its financial results for 2013, stating that its sales revenues amounted to AED 6.5 billion ($ 1.8 billion), almost eight percent higher than 2012, despite sluggish ...
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In January this year, Turkey's crude steel output decreased by 0.9 percent year on year and declined by 2.4 percent month on month to 2.83 million metric tons, according to the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). Turkish ...
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Austrian steelmaker voestalpine AG has announced its financial results for the first nine months ended December 31 of the fiscal year 2013-14. Accordingly, voestalpine's net profit in the first nine months decreased by 4.8 percent to ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it will modernize coiler No. 3 at the hot strip mill No. 2 of Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron & Steel (WISCO) to enable the coiler to wind hot rolled strip with a higher strength and in greater ...
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Canada-based steel fabricator ADF International, which recently built a plant in Great Falls, Montana, announced Thursday plans to build an adjacent 42,000-square-foot paint shop. Construction is expected to start in late March and finish ...
Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced that it has completed the strategic review of its thin and precision strip operations in Kloster and Nyby, Sweden and in Dahlerbrück, Germany, launched in June 2013 with ...
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In January this year, Kazakhstan produced 317,000 mt of crude steel, up 54.5 percent year on year, according to the State Statistics Committee of Kazakhstan. Production of flat steel in Kazakhstan in the given month increased by 35.9 ...
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Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) has announced its financial results for 2013, posting a net profit of TRY 100 million ($45.7 million), falling by 48.5 percent compared to ...
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Indonesia launched a safeguard investigation regarding imports of I-beam with height or width of 100 mm up to 600 mm and H-sections with height of 100 mm up to 350 mm, of alloyed steel, according to a statement issued by the World Trade ...
In January this year, Indian motor vehicle production increased by 5.12 percent year on year 1,935,311 units, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM). In the first 10 months of the current Indian fiscal year ...