Australian Direct Nickel and Indonesia's Antam are looking to complete the feasibility study for their joint venture plant in Halmahera Island by first quarter 2015, a Direct Nickel spokesman said Monday. Last month, the two companies ...
Tags: Nickel, stainless steel
The fourth-largest energy consumer in the world is starting to make some noise on the renewables front.India,with its growing population and GDP,has announced plans to build a massive 4-gigawatt solar photovoltaic plant near Sambhar ...
Last year,Japan's galvanized sheet output amounted to 11.86 million mt,down 0.4 percent compared to 2012,according to data from the Japan Iron and Steel Federation(JISF).Meanwhile,in December the country's galvanized sheet output increased ...
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Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel groups, has announced that in the fourth quarter of 2013 its crude steel output decreased by nine percent to one million mt, while its pig iron output also declined by nine percent to ...
Tags: Russian mining, steel, Mineral
In December last year,South Korea's total automotive(cars and commercial vehicles)output amounted to 419,360 units,up 4.3 percent year on year and down 1.8 percent month on month,according to a report released by the Korea Automobile ...
Tags: Auto, automotive, vehicle exports
Based on the US Commerce Department's most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis(SIMA)data,the American Iron and Steel Institute(AISI)reported Wednesday that steel import permit applications for the month of January total 3,080,000 ...
Tags: Steel Import, Steel, Mineral
Sweden-based steel service center BE Group has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2013. BE Group has reported a net loss of SEK 15 million($2.3 million)for the fourth quarter,compared to a net loss of ...
Tags: steel, steel service, BE Group
Italian plantmaker Danieli has won an order worth$100 million for supply of equipment for new steelmaking facilities to be built in Oman.Renato Pezzano,vice president of Danieli and its sales manager for the Indian market,commented,"This is ...
This year's spike of U.S. liquified propane (LP) prices has been blamed on increased grain drying, harsh winter weather, low supplies and exports. But, the increased amounts of product being exported, while many U.S. LP users struggle to ...
Tags: Propane, propane stocks, LP prices
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute,in the week ending February 1,2014,US domestic raw steel production was 1,804,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 75.3 percent.Production was 1,839,000 net tons in the ...
Tags: Raw Steel, Steel, Iron and Steel
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute(TUIK),in January this year the producer price index(PPI)for Turkish industry in general rose by 3.32 percent over December and was up 10.72 percent year on year,while ...
Tags: Turkish Metal, Metal, metal price
In January this year,Ukrainian metallurgical company Dneprospetsstal(DSS)posted a 7.4 percent year-on-year increase in its crude steel production to 24,000 mt.The company's output of finished steel in the same month declined by 23.7 percent ...
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Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced that Threading and Mechanical Key Premium LLC, TMK's service and support center in Abu-Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been certified ...
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In January this year,Italian domestic scrap prices generally remained stable,but towards the end of the month price decreases started to be seen in line with the general price trend in Europe,as Maurizio Calcinoni,president of Italian scrap ...
Tags: Metallurgy, domestic scrap, steel
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel(NLMK)has stated that in January this year it shipped around 208,000 mt of hot rolled flat steel products,down eight percent month on month,including 102,000 mt of products for export and 106,000 mt for ...
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