According to a release by the American Iron and Steel Institute Monday, in the week ending October 12, 2013, domestic raw steel production totaled 1,847,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 77.1 percent. Production totaled ...
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France-based steel pipe manufacturer Vallourec has announced that Vallourec Tubos do Brasil, Vallourec's wholly-owned Brazilian subsidiary, will supply premium pipes for the offshore Xerelete field in Brazil, of which French multinational ...
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Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) has announced that China Steel Sumikin Vietnam Joint Stock Company, its steel sheet joint venture with the Taiwan-based steel producer China Steel Corporation, will start ...
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Major Chinese steel producer Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) has announced that its subsidiaries Wuhan Iron and Steel Co. Limited and Hubei-based Chinese steel producer Echeng Iron and Steel (Echeng Steel) have signed a contract ...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) announced that it completed a strategic review of its iron castings business and its fabricated components business, two small operations that were part of ATI's Engineered ...
The Chinese government has announced that it will no longer grant approval for construction of coal mine projects with designed annual capacities below 300,000 mt. Meanwhile, approval will also be denied for coal mine projects with annual ...
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Taiwan's largest steelmaker China Steel Corporation (CSC) has announced that in September this year its carbon steel sales volume amounted to 793,119 metric tons, up 5.2 percent compared to August, accounting for 63 percent of domestic ...
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Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), one of the four futures exchanges in mainland China, has announced that it will launch trading of iron ore futures on October 18. According to the DCE, trading will be for iron ore containing 62 percent ...
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Chinese steel producer Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced its estimated financial results for the first three quarters of the current year. Accordingly, for the first nine months this year the company has announced an estimated net ...
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Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced that it has reached agreements with its customers for coking coal and coke sales for the fourth quarter of 2013. Accordingly, NWR has set the average agreed price of ...
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In the third quarter of the current year, the global iron ore production of Australia-based Rio Tinto, the world's second biggest iron ore producer, increased by two percent to 68.3 million mt compared to the third quarter of 2012, setting ...
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Swiss-based SMS Concast has announced that it has revamped the continuous casting machine of Peru-based steel producer Empresa Siderúrgica Del Perú (Siderperú), part of Brazil-based steelmaker Gerdau Group, in Chimbote, ...
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According to the monthly statistics released by the Turkish Automotive Manufacturers' Association (OSD), in September this year Turkey's motor vehicle output totaled 111,769 units, increasing 12.2 percent year on year. In September of the ...
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The United Kingdom has reiterated its openness to Chinese investment in the country's nuclear power industry, a senior British official has said. "Britain is the most open economy in the world, and that goes for our energy markets as ...
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The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), parent company of the nation's top oil and gas producer -- PetroChina, predicted on Monday that its natural gas supply at home will increase 13 percent during the upcoming winter and spring ...
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