Finland-based nickel and zinc miner Talvivaara Mining Company Plc has announced that it produced 1,776 mt of nickel in the second quarter of the current year and 4,508 mt of nickel in the first six months. The company carried out a ...
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Turkish plantmaker CVS Makina has announced that the six-strand high-speed billet caster of Russia-based AEMZ Company has produced its first billets. The billet caster was supplied by CVS Makina within the scope of AEMZ Company's turnkey ...
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On Monday, an explosion occurred during routine maintenance work at the DRI intake of an electric arc furnace at steelmaker Ternium's Guerrero facility in Monterrey, Mexico. The causes of the incident, which killed four and injured 10, are ...
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On July 23, the Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the initiation of antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of certain oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from India, the Republic of Korea (Korea), the Republic of the Philippines ...
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West Chester, Ohio-based flat rolled steelmaker AK Steel reported Tuesday a net loss of $40.4 million for Q2 2013, ended June 30, 2013, compared to a net loss of $724.2 million for Q2 of 2012. Net sales for Q2 2013 were $1.4 billion on ...
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Beijing-based Chinese steelmaker Shougang Co. has announced that in the first half of this year its Xinjiang-based subsidiary Yili Iron and Steel Co. achieved a sales revenue of RMB 730 million ($118 million), up 28.8 percent year on year. ...
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The Spanish stainless steel producer Acerinox S.A. has said that in the second quarter of the current year the international financial crisis, a lack of confidence and the overcapacity in the sector continued to affect the stainless steel ...
Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has announced that it has entered into definitive agreements on cooperation with Canadian iron ore exploration company Black Iron and to invest in BKI Cyprus, which is a wholly-owned ...
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It’s reported that China’s Hebei Steel released its price for steel flat products for August. The company decided to raise its prices for hot rolled coils/plates by RMB150/ton and hiked its prices for cold ...
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It’s reported that Japan’s steel giant Tokyo Steel announced to remain its prices for steel products unchanged for Augsut. Also, the company has kept its list prices unchanged for consecutive six months. After the announcement, ...
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Trimet Aluminium SE, one of Germany’s leading aluminum manufacturers, has made a binding offer to take over two production plants of Rio Tinto Alcan in France. With the new locations, Trimet intends to expand on the successful ...
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Feng Hsin, one of the major steel long product manufacturers in Taiwan announced to remain its prices for rebar, section steel and scrap unchanged for this week. Meanwhile, the new price announcement met market ...
According to data released by Taiwan’s customs, Taiwan’s imports of large-diameter wire rods (with diameters larger or equal to 14mm) totaled 713 tons in June, rising by 4.5% from 682 tons in May. However, the ...
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According to report of the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (Eurofer), it forecasted that the EU’s real steel consumption would fall by 4.5% in 2013. In the first quarter of this year, the EU’s real ...
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According to statistics released by the Italian steel producers association (Federacciai), Italy’s exports of steel products from the non-EU countries totaled 2.203 million tons in the first five months of this year, decreasing by 9% ...
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