Indian steel producer Essar Steel has announced that it has received an order for 13,000 mt of high quality steel plates for the Jazan oil refinery expansion project of Saudi Arabian state-owned oil and natural company Saudi Aramco. Essar ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Wednesday the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping order on welded carbon steel pipe and tube products (standard pipe) from Turkey. The review covered four ...
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ArcelorMittal executives announced Thursday the company's plans to reopen its Harriman, Tennessee steel plant, which closed in 2011 due to poor market conditions. In a joint announcement with Tennessee Economic and Community Development ...
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On January 3, Chinese steelmaker Chongqing Iron and Steel (Group) Co. announced that in 2014 it plans to produce 6.42 million mt of pig iron, 6 million mt of crude steel, 5.65 million mt of finished steel and 3.065 million mt of coke. The ...
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An agreement has been signed to build a cold rolled silicon steel coil project with an annual output of 100,000 mt in the city of Shahe in China's Hebei Province, as reported by local media sources in Hebei on January 3. The facility will ...
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Australia-based miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that it has resumed surface mining operations following the fatal incident earlier this week at its Christmas Creek iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in December last year the producer price index (PPI) for Turkish industry in general rose by 1.11 percent over November and was up 6.97 percent year on year, ...
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Baker Hughes reported that for the week ending January 3, the US rig count decreased by six to 1,751, following 11-rig decrease the previous week. Additionally, the rig count is still down by 11 from 1,762 rigs during the same week a year ...
Rocksource ASA ("Company" & "Rocksource") hereby announces that the Company has entered into a farm-out option deal with Atlantic Petroleum Norge AS ("Atlantic Petroleum") related to the PL 528 licence in the Norwegian Sea. The PL 528 ...
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In the January-November period of last year, Turkey's finished steel output increased 6.5 percent year on year to 33.30 million metric tons, according to the report released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In ...
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Ukrainian iron ore and agglomerate producer Uzhniy GOK (UGOK) has announced that in December last year its iron ore concentrate production increased by 12.92 percent year on year to 996,000 mt. Meanwhile, its output of agglomerate in the ...
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In the week from December 30 to January 5, on the Orbis Steel Index the Turkish scrap index moved upwards, while the US (East Coast) HMS I/II scrap export index followed a stable trend. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index maintained ...
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Shanxi Province-based Chinese steelmaker Taiyuan Iron and Steel Co. (TISCO) has announced that it produced 9.98 million mt of crude steel in 2013, including 3.22 million mt of stainless steel. In addition, in the given year the company ...
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On January 6, Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) announced that in 2013 it produced an estimated 39.68 million mt of crude steel, while it achieved an estimated net profit of RMB 1.5 billion ...
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In November last year, Argentina's production of hot rolled steel reached 436,600 metric tons, 11.1 percent lower than in the previous month and 11.5 percent higher than in November 2012, according to Argentina's Chamber of Steel. In the ...
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