China's February alumina imports rose 31.4% year on year to 460,000 mt, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs late Monday. However, the February imports fell 28.1% from January. Over January-February, ...
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The UK's imports of thermal coal in January rose 14% on the month and 3% on the year to 3.46 million mt, according to customs data released Friday. The month's jump in imports was driven by an 84% increase on the month in deliveries from ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Houston, Texas-based Phillips 66 Company recently agreed to retire over 21 billion sulfur credits that could have been used in the production of gasoline, which could ...
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According to the data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 87 percent of total world DRI production in 2013 amounted to 4.54 ...
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Saudi-based AIC Steel Group has acquired the former Rowecord structural steel fabrication plant in Newport, Wales, and intends to restart production, creating 120 jobs, according to media reports. Rowecord plant went into administration in ...
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Crude steel production by the 65 countries reporting to the World Steel Association was 125 million mt in February, up by just 0.6% on the same month last year. Compared with January 2014, February's average daily production of 4.46 ...
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In afternoon New York trade on Thursday May copper changed hands at $2.936 a pound, erasing all of yesterday's strong gains. Earlier in the day the red metal fell as low as $2.913, down more than 2%, after Federal Reserve Chair Janet ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Wednesday the final results of its expedited sunset review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on circular welded carbon-quality steel line pipe from China. The DOC made an affirmative ...
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According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the first two months of the current year amounted to 5.35 million metric tons, 0.1 percent lower year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel ...
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Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has announced that it will supply large diameter pipes fabricated from internally produced pipe-making plate for oil and gas pipelines in Iraq. According to Metinvest's statement, the ...
Not content with selling gas domestically, some of China's private gas distribution companies are becoming increasingly ambitious and are planning to enter the LNG import business, competing directly with state-owned LNG buyers such as ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending March 15, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,828,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 76.0 percent. Production was 1,827,000 net tons in the ...
According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in January this year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-28) increased ...
The Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom has announced that in 2013 Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises saw their aggregate losses decline by 22 percent year on year,falling from UAH 15.7 billion in 2012 to UAH 12.2 ...
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Alacero,the Latin American steel association,participated at the recent Economics Committee meeting of the World Steel Association(worldsteel)held in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates(UAE).During the meeting the Economics Committee ...
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