The global economy is moving forward, but divergence between countries and regions reflects the uneven progress made toward recovery from the economic crisis, according to the OECD's latest Economic Outlook. The OECD indicated that ...
Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel has announced that, to increase the competitiveness of its steelworks, it has decided on large-scale investments including a new hot-metal treatment plant, a new heat treatment furnace for steel plate, and ...
Tags: Japan, Far East, investments, steelmaking, Kobe Steel, Istanbul
Australian miner BHP Billiton has said that it expects the coal market to be "comfortably supplied" in the near term, with Australian quality hard coking coals expected to remain among the most highly valued. According to BHP Billiton, the ...
Tags: coking coal, raw mat, Australia, Oceania, BHP, opinion, mining, Istanbul
In the first quarter of the current year, Belgian crude steel production amounted to 1.8 million mt, falling by four percent year on year and up 5.1 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2012, according to the Belgian Steel Federation ...
Tags: wire rod, hrc, crc, raw mat, longs, flats, stainless, Belgium, Europe
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that its South African unit ArcelorMittal South Africa is supplying China's Sinohydro Corporation with reinforcing steel from its Newcastle plant for a number of hydroelectric projects across ...
Tags: rebar, longs, Zambia, Africa, ArcelorMittal, steelmaking, Istanbul
Wilo USA building has promoted Harold Adams to the position of National Sales Manager for its Water Management sector. Adams has worked for Wilo since 2009, most recently as Northeast Regional Sales Manager in the greater Philadelphia ...
Tags: Water Management, Energy
In 2012, world stainless crude steel output stood at 35.4 million mt, up 5.2 percent year on year, hitting a new record for a single year, according to the preliminary report released by the International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF). ...
Tags: raw mat, stainless, China, Europe, production, steelmaking, Istanbul
Dependability and Excellency will be the twin tenets of the first class passivation. Within the context of passivation of Steel Alloys and Nickel Alloys, the selection results in being important. They exists a plethora of believability ...
Tags: Stainless Steel Alloys, Nickel Alloys, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Police in the southern Italian city of Taranto have confiscated €8.1 billion worth of property and goods belonging to the Riva family, owners of the Riva Fire holding company which controls the troubled Ilva steel plant, as widespread ...
Tags: Italy, production, steelmaking, European Union, Brescia
Pakistan's iron and steel scrap imports amounted to 119,921 mt in April this year, increasing 4.6 percent compared to April last year and up 3.1 percent month on month, according to data released by the Pakistan Federal Bureau of Statistics ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Australia-based iron ore company Centaurus Metals Limited has announced that it will commission its flagship Jambreiro iron ore project in Brazil in mid-2014 instead of at the end of 2013 as originally planned. Centaurus said that it has ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Turkey's scrap prices which had fallen to $380/mt CFR for HMS I/II 80:20 by early April were still unsustainable given billet and finished steel prices at that period, said Helveco Intertrade SA director Yusuf Güven in a telephone ...
Tags: Scrap, Turkey, Metallurgy
According to data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the first quarter of the current year the index of industrial employment in Turkey increased slightly by 0.3 percent year on year, while it rose by 3.7 percent over ...
Tags: Employment, Basic Metal
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that US raw steel production fell 2.8 percent in the week ending May 25, following a 1.2 percent increase a week ago. Total raw steel production in the United States was ...
Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has announced that in the first quarter of the current year its crude steel production decreased by six percent year on year to 3.101 million mt. In addition, in the given period, ...
Tags: Metinvest, Crude Steel