Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will take protective measures if Ukraine liberalizes customs regulations with the European Union (EU), as reported by the Interfax-Ukraine ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the second quarter of the current year Turkey's pig iron imports totaled 190,026 mt, decreasing strongly both compared to the previous quarter and the same ...
In its financial results according to international financial reporting standards (IFRS) for the second quarter of the current year, Russian pipemaker TMK saw its net profit decrease by 53 percent compared to the first quarter this year to ...
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Glassport, Pennsylvania-based scrap mill services provider, and parent of Tube City IMS Corp., TMS International, will be acquired by the billionaire Pritzker family for $687 million in cash. The Pritzker organization is a private equity ...
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Turkish specialty steel producer Asil Celik A.S. (Asil Celik) has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2013. In the second quarter, Asil Celik posted a net profit of TRY 3.9 million ($1.95 million), ...
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Turkish rebar producer Izmir Demir elik Sanayi A. . (IDC) has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2013, stating that for the coming period China's policies regarding capacity utilization rates and ...
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According to the customs statistics provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the second quarter of the current year Turkey's iron ore imports amounted to 2.7 million mt, indicating a strong rise of 86.2 percent over the ...
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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 85.3 points in July this year, decreased by 2.2 percent ...
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On August 27, Beijing-based Chinese pipe producer Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes Co. announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of the current year. Accordingly, in the first six months the company achieved an ...
According to the statistics provided by Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase), in July this year Brazil's iron ore exports amounted to 24.5 million metric tons, falling by 3.5 percent ...
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The Turkish Steel Exporters' Association (CIB) has announced that Colombia has launched three separate antidumping (AD) duty investigations for rebar, wire rod and steel section imports from Turkey. The products in question accounted for ...
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According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's hot rolled (HR) flat steel exports totaled 1.26 million metric tons in June this year, decreasing by 2.3 percent month on month and up eight percent compared to June ...
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Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2013. In the second quarter, Kardemir recorded a net ...
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Middle East Rating and Investors Service (MERIS) has announced that it has downgraded the credit rating of Egypt-based steelmaker Ezz Steel to B+ from BB+, with the outlook being negative. According to MERIS, Ezz Steel is facing critical ...
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Sims Metal Management expects tight ferrous scrap flows and US scrap processing overcapacity, two major headwinds impacting margins, to improve in its current fiscal year that ends June 30, 2014. The global scrap firm notes an improvement ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Mineral