Chinese steelmaker Chongqing Iron and Steel Co. (Chongqing Steel), a subsidiary of Chongqing Iron and Steel (Group) Co., has renewed its strategic cooperation agreement with Sinotrans & CSC Shipbuilding Industry Co., extending cooperation ...
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South Korean steel giant POSCO has received the green light to finally start work on its planned $12 billion steel plant in India in the coming weeks, India's prime minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday, January 16, at a press conference ...
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Electrolytic manganese metal prices remained stable for two consecutive weeks as a fall in spot supply balanced waning demand from international buyers. Platts assessed 99.7% manganese at $2,170-2,220/mt FOB China Thursday, unchanged from ...
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China is targeting to raise its synthetic coal-to-gas output to 50 billion cubic meters by 2020, accounting for over 12% of domestic supply, an official with the National Energy Administration said Wednesday. But actual output may fall ...
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Republic Steel Executive Vice President-Commercial Ted Thielens said this week that the company’s new EAF is almost ready to resume production after weeks of repairs necessitated by a fire on November 30 that destroyed control ...
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For the first time in its production history, Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA) exceeded the annual level of 4 million tons of crude steel and finished 2013 with a total volume of 4.155 million tons--7 percent more than the 2012 total. The ...
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According to a report from the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI), monthly shipments of steel in both the US and Canada ended 2013 with gains over December of 2012. In the US, December shipments lifted 2013 annual shipments to levels ...
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On January 16, Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) announced that it returned to profit in 2013 following the strong net loss it had recorded in 2012. Accordingly, the group has posted a net ...
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The latest figures issued by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) show that in 2013 new car registrations totaled 11,850,905 units in the European Union (EU), with a decrease of 1.7 percent from 2012. In December last ...
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Australia-based miner Fortescue Minerals Limited has announced that it has signed a long-term natural gas transportation agreement to reduce costs at its Pilbara iron ore operations. Gas will be delivered via the existing Dampier to Bunbury ...
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In November last year, the price, calendar and seasonally adjusted industrial production in Germany increased 3.1 percent compared to the previous month, according to the preliminary data released by the German Federal Ministry for Economic ...
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Mounty Airy, North Carolina-based Insteel Industries reported Thursday net earnings of $2.7 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2014 (ended December 28, 2013), compared to $2.4 million in the same quarter of the previous year. Net sales ...
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According to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association (JISF), steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic steel consuming sectors in Japan in November last year amounted to 7.59 million metric tons, ...
The Mexican Secretary of Economy (SE) published last week the final determination of the antidumping investigation on imports of Chinese seamless steel pipe. In the Official Gazette (DOF), the agency said that based on the results of its ...
Nucor Corp. and Wilmington, Delaware-based Asia Fastening were assigned Tuesday a patent (8,621,806) developed by four co-inventors for a "composite joist floor system." The co-inventors are Glenn Wayne Studebaker, Norfolk, Nev., David Lee ...
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