Baker Hughes reported Friday that for the week ending August 2, the US rig count increased by six to 1,782, the fourth consecutive week of increases. The rig count was down 148 from 1,930 rigs during the same week a year ago. The oil rig ...
Houston, Texas-based MRC Global Inc., the largest global distributor, based on sales, of pipe, valves and fittings (PVF) and related products and services to the energy and industrial sectors, reported Q2 2013 sales of $1.27 billion, down ...
On Thursday, West Chester, Ohio-based AK Steel said that the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced its implementation of the recommendations and rulings of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) regarding ...
Tags: AK Steel, WTO Ruling
On Wednesday, locked out union workers at US Steel's Lake Erie Works in Ontario, a slab and hot-rolled coil mill, rejected the company's new contract proposal, according to United Steelworkers Local 8782. Local 8782 president Bill ...
On Thursday, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced its preliminary determination in the administrative review of the suspension agreement with Ukraine on cut-to-length carbon steel plate. The DOC has preliminarily determined that ...
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the initiation of administrative reviews of antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders with a June anniversary date. The DOC initiated the following administrative reviews of AD ...
Tags: Pressure Pipe, Steel Cylinders
In the first seven months of the current year, Ukraine registered a one percent decrease in its finished steel product output to 17.147 million mt, a 0.2 percent decrease in its crude steel output to 19.350 million mt, and a 0.9 percent ...
Tags: Production Results, Mineral
India's finished steel consumption totaled 17.8 million mt in the first quarter of the current Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2013), stable compared to the level recorded in the same period last year, according to provisional ...
According to the data announced by Statistics Indonesia (BPS), in June this year Indonesia's steel imports totaled $784 million in value, decreasing by 23 percent as compared to the previous month, while the country's import value for ...
Tags: Steel Import, Mineral
Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has announced its financial results for 2012 according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). In 2012, Interpipe recorded a net loss of $72 million compared to a ...
Tags: steel pipe, railway wheel
Japanese automobile production in June this year totaled 808,557 units, decreasing by 84,588 units or 9.5 percent compared to the same month of the previous year. Japan's auto output indicated a year-on-year decline for the 10th consecutive ...
Tags: Automobile Output, Mineral
When it comes to shunt trucks, you don't often get splashy new truck launches, complete with elaborate Formula 1-style curtain raisings. What you do get is continuous improvement of existing models. Not a year goes by without some ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Transportation
As coal prices remain lackluster due to sluggish demand, Shanxi took measures to stabilize the local coal market and ease the mounting pressure that coal producers in the province have been feeling since January. The Shanxi provincial ...
Tags: Local Coal Market, sluggish demand
Mexico’s apparent domestic consumption of liquid steel amounted to 9.12 million tons in the first five months of this year, decreasing by 8.8% year on year, according to data released by the National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry ...
Tags: domestic consumption, liquid steel
Charlotte, North Carolina-based Midrex, a world’s reputable company provides innovative design technology solutions for the direct reduction of iron ore has collaborated with JSW Steel to upgrade natural gas supply for production of ...