Kardemir, the largest steel long products manufacturer in Turkey announced to raise its domestic prices for steel bars from July 10th, driven by higher prices of imported scraps and stronger demand. After announcement, its new sales ...
Beijing-based state-owned China Metallurgical Corporation (MCC) announced that steelmaker Shougang Jingtang has started cold load tests at its cold rolling (CR) plant No. 3 on July 8th. It’s known that the CR plant No. 3 was ...
Tags: Cold Load Tests, CR Plant, Mineral
The world’s steel giant ArcelorMittal’s production and stockholding capacity at its Willenhall service center in the UK was enhanced after the company poured £2.6 million to replace outdated equipment. Once a new ...
Tags: Steel Sheet Capacity, Mineral
On July 8, Fortune Magazine published its list of the global top 500 companies for 2013. Sinopec ranked No. 4, the highest of any Chinese company on the list, with annual operating revenue of US$428.167 billion. This is the fifteenth ...
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On July 10, Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) announced that it has increased the stake it holds in its listed subsidiary Wuhan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. From November 29, 2012 to July 10, ...
According to a report from the Lake Carriers' Association, shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 6 million tons in June, a decrease of 6 percent compared to May, and a drop of 7 percent compared to a year ago. Loadings also ...
Tags: Iron Ore Shipments, Mineral
India-based steelmaker Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) is reportedly in talks with London-based Stemcor, one of the world's largest independent steel traders, to buy Brahmani River Pellets (BRPL), Stemcor's pellet unit in the Indian state of ...
Tags: Jindal Steel, Mineral
Taiwan's largest steelmaker China Steel Corporation (CSC) has announced that in June this year its carbon steel sales volume amounted to 736,089 metric tons, down 5.6 percent compared to May, accounting for 64 percent of domestic sales. In ...
Tags: taiwan, Carbon Steel, steel
The Longqiao iron ore mining expansion project of Chinese mining company Anhui Lujiang Longqiao Mining Co. has been approved by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), according to local media reports. Investment in the ...
Tags: Iron Ore Mine, Mineral
Chicago, Illinois-based Energex Tube, a division of JMC Steel Group, announced Tuesday that they have agreed to a deal with Tokyo, Japan-based Metal One Corporation, offering semi-premium connections for use in North American oil and gas ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, pipe, Construction
In June this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 72,500 metric tons, decreasing significantly compared to the high level of 219,600 mt recorded in May, and down 48.8 percent compared to the same month of ...
Tags: Manganese Ore, Mineral
German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that its subsidiary SMS Mevac has received an order for the supply of a VOD (vacuum oxygen decarburization) facility from China-based Fujian Fuxin Special Steel. The aim of the project is to ...
Tags: Steelmaker, VOD Facility
In the first half of the current year, South Korea's car production fell by 4.3 percent year on year to 2,279,790 units, according to a report released by the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MOTIE). The report says that the fall on ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TUIK), Turkey's monthly industrial turnover index in May this year increased by 5.3 percent compared to the same month of the previous year and was up 5.8 percent ...
Tags: Basic Metals, Mineral
According to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in August this year Ukraine's crude steel production is expected to increase by 1.1 percent compared to June to 2.760 million mt. According to Metallurgprom's ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral