Reportedly, Zhang Changfu, the vice chairman and secretary general of the China Iron & Steel Association (CISA) said that the Chinese steel industry’s margin reached at 0.48% in the January-November period due to increasing steel ...
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According to data released by Taiwan’s ministry of economic affairs, the country’s rebar output totaled 5.14 million tons in the January-November period, down by 1.3% in comparison of the figures in the same period of 2012. ...
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Because Taiwan's government may allow China's steel plates can free import to Taiwan without conditional, it pushed Taiwan's China Steel Corp. (CSC) has to think about new market strategy to secure its customers. CSBC Corp., one of the ...
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According to data released by the Japan Iron & Steel Federation (JISF), the country’s shipments of cold rolled (CR) sheets and strips totaled 5.45 million tons in the January-October period, down by 1.12% year on year. Among them, ...
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According to statistics released by the Argentine Iron &Steel Institute, the country’s output of steel products totaled 469,000 tons in November, soaring by 18.7% in comparison of 395,400 tons in the same month of 2012. In the ...
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The council of ministers of Brazil's foreign trade chamber Camex has announced a twice-yearly monitoring of Aperam domestic stainless steel price proposal. The proposal is waiting for the approval of government authorities. This new ...
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Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) announced on December 23 that it has signed strategic cooperation agreement with China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), which is one of ...
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According to the data released by the Japan Ship Exporters' Association (JSEA), Japanese new ship export orders in November this year increased by 24.14 percent on tonnage basis compared to the previous month, amounting to 36 ships compared ...
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In November this year, Japan's iron and steel products exports amounted to 3.36 million metric tons, increasing by 2.56 percent year on year and up by 6.40 percent compared to October this year. Meanwhile, Japan's steel imports totaled ...
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China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced that during last week (Dec.16- 22) the overall average finished steel price in China maintained upward trend for the fifth consecutive week. In the given week, average prices of 10 mm ...
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Russia-based OMZ-Special Steels, part of OMZ group, announced that it has successfully produced a 420 mt bar of 15X2HMFA steel. The ingot will be used in production of reactor shell for the VVER-TOI nuclear power plant project. OMZ ...
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Pakistan's iron and steel scrap imports amounted to 106,191 mt in November this year, decreasing 20.65 percent compared to October and down 23.29 percent year on year, according to the data released by the Pakistan Federal Bureau of ...
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Indonesia-based steelmaker PT Krakatau announced that the company president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has inaugurated PT Krakatau Posco on December 23, the joint venture between South Korean steel giant POSCO. This integrated steel mill is ...
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As of December 23, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 85.403 million mt, indicating an increase of 1.559 million mt or 1.86 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, ...
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According to the monthly sectoral confidence survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the confidence index* for the construction sector in Turkey, which stood at 77.1 points in November this year, decreased by 4.9 ...
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