In April this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 53,803 metric tons, decreasing 59.3 percent compared to March, and down 65.6 percent compared to the same month of 2012, according to the monthly data ...
Tags: Manganese Ore, Mineral
Luxembourg-based tubular producer Tenaris reportedly has predicted that the demand of pipes consumption was likely to remain sluggish in 2013. However, Tenaris expects to make product mix improvements to help offset the impact of lower ...
Tags: Tenaris, Tubes Market
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in March this year Turkey's rebar (including round bar) exports amounted to 818,254 metric tons, the highest level in 12 months, increasing by 23.9 percent compared ...
Tags: Rebar Exports, Mineral
Shandong Province-based Rizhao Baoxin Mining Resources Co. and Hunan Province-based Baosteel Steel Process and Distribution Co., both subsidiaries of Shanghai-based Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (Baosteel), plan to sell 51 percent and 49 ...
Tags: Baosteel Subsidiaries, Shares
In the week ended May 3, a falling trend was mostly observed in the London Metal Exchange (LME) billet market, after the stable trend recorded in the previous week. Previously, strong declines had been recorded in the market since ...
Tags: LME Billet, Mineral
According to the statistics provided by Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase), in March this year Brazil's iron ore exports amounted to 22.4 million metric tons, falling by 25.7 percent ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, Mineral
In the first quarter this year, China's Hebei Province produced a total of 52.697 million mt of crude steel, up 9.62 percent year on year, accounting for 27.5 percent of total output in China, according to data released by Metallurgical ...
Tags: Crude Steel Output, Mineral
According to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat), in the January-April period of this year total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Russian Railways
In April of the current year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland increased by 4.4 percent compared to March and were up 63.75 percent year on year, totaling 26 million metric tons. According to the information released by ...
According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's iron ore imports totaled 10.1 million metric tons in March this year, falling by five percent month on month and down 4.8 percent compared to March 2012. The ...
In the week from April 29 to May 5, the scrap indexes continued to decrease on the Orbis Steel Index. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index started to decrease following two weeks of upward movement. The flat rolled product indexes ...
Tags: Scrap, Downward Movement
According to the data released by the Export and Import Division of South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy, the country's trade balance indicated a $2.6 billion surplus in April this year, remaining in the black for the 15th ...
Tags: Steel Export Value, Mineral
Luxembourg-based energy pipe and tube manufacturer Tenaris has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013, registering a net profit of $423 million, down six percent compared to the corresponding quarter of 2012. In the ...
Tags: Tenaris, Net Profit
China Baoan Group Co., Ltd. (SHSE:000009) announced yesterday that its subsidiary BTR New Energy Materials Inc. (BTR) has been certificated to invent spherical graphene. This proves a breakthrough in the field of spherical graphene. Baoan ...
Tags: Graphene Technology, Baoan, Graphene
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the April 2013 edition of the Solid-State Lighting (SSL) R&D Multi-Year Program Plan (MYPP). This year new, streamlined edition provides a description of the activities the Department plans ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy