Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Thursday that the US imported a total of 2,680,000 net tons (nt) of steel in April, including 2,087,000 net tons (nt) of finished steel (up 4 ...
Tags: wire rod, pipe, plate, galvanized, coated, longs, flats, tubular, USA
According to the preliminary data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 12 countries accounting for approximately 83 percent of total world DRI production in 2012 totaled ...
Tags: raw mat, India, Iran, Mexico, Europe, production, steelmaking, Istanbul
Reportedly, Posco is largest steelmaker in South Korea, planned to develop a new 300,000 metric ton/year cold-rolle non-grain-oriented electrical steel sheet plant at Vile Bhagad in the Raigarh district of western India's Maharashtra state. ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Tenaris has started operation of two new U and O forming presses at its mill in Brazil. This project is focusing on producing greater wall thickness of various steel grade tubes over 1.5" with diameter between 12 3/4" ~ 48". It’s ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
It's reported that the Russian steel producer Severstal planned to invest US$6.4 million to upgrade equipment including a Sever-6 type ultrasonic testing (UST) unit and a controlled cooling unit (CCU) at the plate rolling facility No. 3 of ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
It is learned that two new steel companies in Ghana is expected to start operations by the end of next month. The new mills are Jordanian-owned Rider Steel and Lebanese-owned United Steel Limited, their production capacity are 5,000 tons ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The petrochemical companies of the Gulf countries should focus on the sustainability of the petrochemical supply chain in order to help the sector develop further, said Saleh Al-Shabnan, the vice-chairman of Gulf Petrochemical and Chemical ...
Tags: Textile
Ferroalloy refers to the different alloys of iron that are made up of by the mixing of two or three different elements like manganese, silicon, molybdenum and others. These are used further to produce other products like steel and other ...
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Jet fuel differentials firmed to end a week that saw production and demand exactly matched in the US, just not in the Chicago market, with its world-high outright prices. Platts assessed Chicago unchanged at NYMEX June heating oil futures ...
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A US commodity trading house has filed a class-action lawsuit in New York against BP, Shell and Statoil, the three European oil companies being investigated by the European Commission for suspected manipulation of oil prices. The oil ...
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A long-standing dispute over the problems surrounding Kenya's sole refinery in Mombasa is escalating, triggering fears the country could lose clout as an investment magnet for neighboring countries. A financial crisis at the aging plant ...
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Pakistan-based Tuwairqi Steel Mills Limited (TSML) has recorded the highest-ever production rate of an iron making plant in Pakistan during the plant demonstration test conducted under the expert supervision of the US-based plantmaker ...
Tags: raw mat, Pakistan, Middle East, production, steelmaking, Istanbul
Late Wednesday, the US House of Representatives passed legislation to expedite the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline by a vote of 241-175. The House vote came despite insufficient support in the Senate, in addition to a threatened veto ...
Tags: pipe, tubular, USA, North America, opinion, steelmaking, San Diego
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the first quarter of the current year, Turkey's coking coal imports totaled 6.3 million metric tons, decreasing 4.1 percent compared to the same period of 2012. ...
Tags: coking coal, raw mat, Turkey, Europe, imp/exp statistics, steelmaking
Taiwan's industrial production index in April this year fell by 0.9 percent as compared to April 2012 after falling by a revised three percent year on year in March, and was down 1.4 percent month on month, according to the country's ...
Tags: Taiwan, production, automotive, construction, steelmaking