According to the Turkish Automotive Manufacturers Association (OSD), in the first four months of the current year motor vehicle sales in Turkey totaled 237,789 units, rising by 13.2 percent as compared to the corresponding period of the ...
Tags: Motor Vehicle, Mineral
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TUIK), Turkey's monthly industrial turnover index in March this year increased by two percent compared to the same month of the previous year and was up 13.1 percent ...
Tags: Basic Metals, Mineral
According to the statistics released by the Taiwanese Ministry of Finance, in April this year Taiwan's export value of iron and steel and articles made from iron and steel amounted to $1.45 billion, decreasing by 8.2 percent compared to the ...
Tags: Steel Export, Mineral
In the week ended May 10, prices rose strongly in the London Metal Exchange (LME) billet market, after the downtrend recorded in the previous week. Previously, strong declines had been recorded in the market. The following prices were ...
Tags: LME Billet Market, Mineral
On May 13, Shandong Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shandong Iron and Steel Group Co. announced that it is planning its second issue of medium-term notes for the current year, with the notes in question valued at RMB 3 billion ($487.8 ...
Tags: Shandong Steel Group, Mineral
UK-based London Mining, a global diversified miner targeting the steel sector, has announced its operational results for the first quarter of 2013, reporting a total sales volume of 589,000 wet mt of iron ore concentrate, compared to ...
Tags: London Mining, Iron Ore
In the first quarter of this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 3.3 percent compared to the same quarter of the previous year and were up by 9.2 percent on quarter-on-quarter basis, according to the Japan Iron ...
Tags: CR Sheet, Strip Shipments
Another month has passed in which demand in the global long steel products market has failed to show the long-awaited recovery, according to the market outlook released by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long ...
Tags: Hinders Price, Global Longs Market
India's finished steel consumption was up 3.5 percent to 5.6 million mt in April of the current year, compared to the 5.4 million mt recorded in the same month last year, according to provisional estimates released by the Joint Plant ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Mineral
According to Egypt State Information Service, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has called for the expediting of the Suez Canal Corridor Development project given its positive effect in supporting the Egyptian economy, attracting investment ...
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According to Turkey's Dogan News Agency, the collective labor agreement negotiations going on since January at Turkish long steel producer Kardemir have been concluded. After a meeting with Kardemir, Celik-Union's request for a 42 percent ...
Foreign media reported on May 11 that, in April 2013, the Indian Railways revenue totaled approximately 110,091,700,000 rupees, an increase of 13.65% compared to the same period last year of 96,871,500,000 rupees. In April 2013, the ...
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Confirmed by the part of the national leaders in Egypt, because of hot weather in summer, electricity demand is expected to rise sharply, but the country during the summer of 2013 there will be power shortages. As national concerns summer ...
Tags: Generating
According to Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group, on May 8 its subsidiary Chengde Steel signed a strategic cooperation agreement with South Korean-based Daewoo International Corporation for the supply of flat ...
Tags: Chengde Steel, Mineral
According to an industry survey released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI), the Japanese steelmakers planned to produce 27.58 million tons of crude steel in the second quarter of this year, rising by 4% from a quarter ago. ...
Tags: Japanese Mills, Crude Steel