Mexican holding company Grupo Simec SAB de CV announced Monday that its subsidiary, Ohio-based Republic Steel has entered into a five year supply agreement with United States Steel Corporation, to provide Tube Rounds to the US Steel Tubular ...
Tags: Republic Steel, US Steel
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in March this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit decreased 1.1 percent to $7.38 billion ...
Tags: Steel Export, Mineral
According to the Mineral Industry Survey released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), stocks of imported and domestic scrap in the US at the end of February this year amounted to 3.5 million mt, falling eight percent from the end of January ...
Tags: Iron and Steel Scrap, Mineral
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that US raw steel production rose 0.4 percent in the week ending April 27, after falling 1.2 percent in the previous week. Total raw steel production in the United States was ...
Vale S.A. announced Monday that it has been granted the operating license (LO) for the railway terminal at Ponta da Madeira (PDM) in the state of Maranho, Brazil, issued by the state environmental authority. The railway terminal is part of ...
Tags: Vale, Operating License
In April this year, the seasonally adjusted confidence index in the Italian manufacturing sector declined by 1.12 percent month on month to 87.6, after minimal month-on-month growth in the preceding two months, as announced by the Italian ...
Tags: Mineral, Italian Manufacturing
On April 30, Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, reported that in March this year the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the European Union member states (EU-27) was 10.9 percent, unchanged from February. The ...
Tags: Mineral, EU-27 Unemployment
Annual inflation in the euro area is expected to be 1.2 percent in April this year, down from a revised 1.7 percent in March, according to flash estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities. Flash ...
Tags: Mineral, Annual inflation
In February this year, the seasonal and working-day adjusted turnover index in France's manufacturing industry increased by 0.6 percent month on month, following a month-on-month fall of 1.6 percent recorded in January, according to ...
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Taranto-based Italian steel producer Ilva has been granted the green light by local magistrates to ship 63,700 meters of steel pipes for an order worth $45 million totaling 136,200 meters placed by Iraq Oil Project Company. On April 24, ...
Tags: Ilva, Green Light, Steel Pipes
Japanese automobile production in March this year totaled 823,145 units, up 1.85 percent month on month but down by 161,418 units or 16.4 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, indicating a year-on-year fall for the ...
Tags: Auto Output, Mineral
In March this year, Japan's industrial production increased 0.2 percent over the previous month, showing a month-on-month increase for the fourth consecutive month. Japan's industrial output showed a decrease of 7.3 percent from March in ...
Tags: Industrial Output, Mineral
Indian steelmaker JSW Steel has denied media reports about Japan's JFE Steel increasing its shareholding in JSW. The Indian steelmaker stated that JFE Steel still has a 16.17 percent shareholding in the company. An Indian-based newspaper ...
Tags: Steel Denies Reports, Mineral
Russian pig iron and coking coal producer Koks Group has announced it operational results for the first quarter of 2013. During the first quarter, Koks produced 537,000 mt of pig iron, up one percent compared to the corresponding quarter ...
Tags: pig iron, coking coal
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in February this year Turkey's ferroalloy imports fell 32.2 percent compared to the previous month to 26,357 mt, following a 50.4 percent month-on-month increase in ...
Tags: Ferroalloy Imports, Mineral