According to the data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in March this year Turkey's calendar adjusted monthly industrial production index with the base year 2010=100 decreased by 0.9 percent compared to the previous ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Mineral
Xinjiang-based Chinese steelmaker Bayi Iron and Steel Co. (Bayi Steel), a subsidiary of Chinese steel giant Baosteel Group, has announced that on May 14 it will issue short-term bonds worth RMB 1 billion ($161 million) in a third-phase bond ...
Tags: Bayi Steel, Short-Term Bonds
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in March this year Turkey's steel billet exports amounted to 288,225 metric tons, increasing by 47.4 percent compared to the previous month and almost quadruple ...
Tags: Billet Exports, Mineral
Brazil's iron ore export volume amounted to 23.35 million mt in April this year, increasing 3.4 percent compared to March and down by 8.6 percent compared to the same month of 2012, according to the preliminary information released by the ...
Tags: Flat Steel Exports, Mineral
Contractors took out building permits worth $6.5 billion in March, up 8.6 percent from February and the third consecutive monthly advance, according to a report from Statistics Canada. The March increase came mostly from the non-residential ...
Tags: Building Permits, Mineral
On May 7, China Beijing International Mining Exchange (CBMX), China's only iron ore spot trading platform, and Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at boosting their cooperation in the ...
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On May 7, Beijing-based China Construction Steel Structure Co. started construction work on its new steel structure manufacturing plant in Tianjing, with the plant expected to become the largest steel structure manufacturing center in ...
Construction is due to start in early May on plants Nos. 1 and 2 of a new aluminized steel project located in Yichang in the Chinese province of Hubei, according to Chinese media reports. The project in question, with a designed annual ...
Tags: Aluminized Steel Project, Mineral
The European Commission (EC) has announced that it has decided to impose a provisional antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) on stainless steel wire imports from India. The provisional antidumping duties for Indian ...
According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q2 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in 2012 EU steel imports fell sharply though the decrease rate was slower during the last ...
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According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2013-2014/Q2 2013 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the first quarter of 2013 European Union (EU) steel exports increased by four percent ...
Tags: EUROFER, Steel Exports
BHP Billiton, the 3th world's biggest iron ore suppliers, expressed that the increase speed in iron ore supplies would accelerate and it would lead a lower price of iron ore. “The increase speed of supply will accelerate in the next ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Ocean Shipping
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has approved the application for ferroalloy futures trading made by Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE), according to Chinese media reports. ZCE stated that the launch of ferroalloy futures ...
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Russian mining and steel group Mechel has announced that successful hot testing has been held at the complex of Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant's universal rolling mill. During hot testing, the mill produced its first batch of structural ...
Tags: Mechel, Rolling Mill
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced that during last week (April 29-May 5) the average steel price in China decreased by 0.3 percent compared to the previous week. In particular, in the given week prices of 3 mm hot rolled ...
Tags: Steel Price, Mineral