According to the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in June this year the crude steel output of 64 countries surveyed across the globe reached 132 million mt, increasing by 1.9 percent on year-on-year basis and down 3.15 percent compared ...
Tags: Crude Steel Output, Mineral
Reportedly, Turkish Tat Metal, producer of cold rolled and galvanized coil, has announced to launch its new cold rolling and skin pass mills in July this year. The company another pre-painted galvanized steel line will expect to start the ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, metal
According to the statistics released by the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs, in June this year Taiwan's basic metal and basic metal product export orders amounted to $2.13 billion, down 7.6 percent compared to the previous month and ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Mineral
According to local sources, the stocks of stainless steel products totaled 118,365 tons in the Chinese Foshan market in the first half of July, decreasing by 8.39% from the previous 15 days. Among them, 55,844 tons were cold rolled ...
The world’s steel giant ArcelorMittal announced to raise prices for all its coil products by €20/ton for September deliveries. According to an executive of ArcelorMittal, the negotiations on price rise have just started as ...
Tags: Coil Prices, European Market
It is reported that Rio Tinto sold two unprofitable aluminum plants in France to a German company and a state-run French utility. Trimet AG reportedly would acquire a 65% interest in the businesses while Electricité de France ...
Tags: Rio Tinto, Aluminum Facilities, Mineral
It’s reported that Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) announced that its sales volumes of steel products totaled 3.771 million tons in the second quarter of this year, up slightly by 0.2% from a quarter ago. Among them, ...
Tags: Steel Products, Mineral
Korean steel giant Posco said that it has initiated steel powder plant project in Gwangyang. The steel powder plant is expected to help reduce the country’s heavy rely on imports once the facility is put into ...
Tags: Mineral, Steel Powder Plant
It’s reported that China Steel Corp (CSC), the largest carbon steelmaker in Taiwan is going to release its list prices for steel bar and wire products for September. Industry sources predicted that CSC might remain its list ...
Tags: Steel Bar, Wires List
It is learned that Techint opened their new mill in Buenos Aires, Argentina early this week. The new mill costs US$63 million is part of the company’s US$570 million investment in the period of 2012 – 2013. The ...
Tags: Automobile Sector, Techint
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in May this year Turkey's coking coal imports amounted to 2.35 million mt, up 10 percent year on year and increasing by 24.9 percent compared to April. Turkey's ...
Tags: Coking Coal Imports, Mineral
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that it will supply over 40,000 mt of steel plates and coils from its European sites to the shipbuilder STX France in St Nazaire for the construction of the world's biggest cruise ship. Coils ...
Tags: Steel, Shipbuilder
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) has announced its preliminary decision regarding the antidumping (AD) duty investigation for hot rolled steel plate imports from China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. ...
Tags: Hot Plate Imports, Mineral
According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), the country's crude steel production in the first half of 2013 was 17 million metric tons, 2.2 percent lower than in the first half of 2012. In the first six months this year, Brazilian rolled ...
Tags: Steel Exports, Mineral
German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it has received an order from EVRAZ North America for the supply of a heat treatment system for the steelmaker's tubular products plant in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The new heat treatment ...
Tags: Heat Treatment System, Pipe Plant