Ukraine-based mining and steel company Metinvest Group will invest over $92 million in the upgrading of the fourth blast furnace at its Mariupol-headquartered subsidiary Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, according to Azovstal's statement. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
Hazardous smog has hit 17 Chinese provinces and municipalities, affecting 600 million people this year. The capital, Beijing, was shrouded in smog for several days during the seven-day national holiday, disappointing visitors who wanted to ...
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Metalloinvest, a leading Russian based regional steel producers and who is also a global iron ore and HBI producer and supplier has planned to expand its commercial pig iron production volumes at Ural Steel facility. This project will ...
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The South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI) said today, October 28, that the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region is a significant net importer of steel products, pointing out that the region is not ...
Tags: Steel Plant, Mineral
In August this year Turkey's billet and bloom import volume increased by 6.82 percent year on year to 206,090 metric tons, down 22.4 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute ...
Tags: Steel Billet
The Environmental Protection Agency of the Chinese city of Tianjin has announced that it plans to eliminate 1.4 million mt and 2.29 million mt respectively of outdated steel and cement production capacities in the city before the end of the ...
Tags: Steel Output Capacity, Mineral
Xinjiang-based Chinese steelmaker Bayi Iron and Steel Co. (Bayi Steel), a subsidiary of Chinese steel giant Baosteel Group, has issued its financial results for the first three quarters of 2013, indicating a operating revenue of RMB 18.395 ...
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At the sixth China Iron and Steel Trade Summit Forum held on October 26 in Zhengzhou, Li Chuangxin, deputy secretary-general of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), stated that China's gross domestic product (GDP) and fixed asset ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral
Chinese steelmaker Chongqing Iron and Steel Co. (Chongqing Steel), a subsidiary of Chongqing Iron and Steel (Group) Co., has announced that in the January-September period this year its operating revenue amounted to RMB 14.011 billion ...
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On October 27, construction work commenced on a new stainless steel industrial park in Lanzhou New Area in China's Gansu Province, as announced by local media in Lanzhou. Investment in the project is expected to total RMB 3 billion ($0.49 ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Mineral
The output of the European Union's construction industry is foreseen to drop by 3.5 percent this year, while the downtrend in EU construction sector output is expected to end in 2014 with a rise of one percent predicted for the year, ...
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Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest has stated that a major overhaul of blast furnace No. 4 has been carried out within the framework of the production modernization program at its subsidiary Ilyich Iron ...
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During the week ended October 25, prices remained stable in the London Metal Exchange (LME) billet market, after the decrease in the previous week. The following prices were recorded in LME billet contract trading as of the end of last ...
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In the third quarter of the current year, the crude steel production of Russian steelmaker MMK Group totaled 2.874 million mt, down seven percent compared to the second quarter of the year, while its crude steel output in the first nine ...
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Beijing-based Chinese steel producer Shougang Group has announced that in the first three quarters of the current year its operating revenue amounted to RMB 7.001 billion ($1.14 billion), down 11.05 percent year on year. Meanwhile, the ...
Tags: Shougang Group, steel