According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in February this year Turkey's total wire rod exports amounted to 76,989 metric tons, falling 36.1 percent month on month and down 27.5 percent compared to February ...
Tags: Wire Rod Exports, Mineral
On Wednesday, the Department of Commerce announced the initiation of an antidumping duty (AD) investigation of imports of diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat-rolled steel products from Japan. The petitioner for this investigation is ...
Tags: Nickel-Plated Flats, Mineral
Finnish stainless steel producer Outokumpu has informed Italy's Ministry of Economic Developement that it has received three purchase offers for Terni-based Italian stainless mill Acciai Speciali Terni (AST), according to local Italian ...
Tags: Stainless Steel Mill, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced that it has reached agreements with its customers for coking coal and coke sales for the second quarter of 2013. Accordingly, NWR has set the average agreed price of ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced that, together with its steel pipe pile joint corporation in Vietnam, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Pipe Vietnam Co., Ltd. (NPV), it has recently received orders for large ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
Brazil-based mining giant Vale has announced its production results for the first quarter of 2013. In the first quarter, Vale produced 67.53 million mt of iron ore, falling 3.5 percent compared to the corresponding quarter of the previous ...
Tags: Vale, Iron Ore Production
According to the data released by Argentina's chamber of steel, in the first quarter of this year Argentina's crude steel production totaled 1.1 million metric tons, decreasing 17.5 percent year on year. In March this year, Argentina's ...
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Global steelmaking and mining giant Evraz Group S.A. has announced that its crude steel output in the first quarter of the current year increased by 11 percent quarter on quarter to 4.068 million mt mainly due to the absence of overhauls ...
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Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario-based flat rolled sheet and plate steelmaker Essar Steel Algoma announced Wednesday that its parent companies will provide $50 million of credit support to reinforce the company's liquidity position. The Company ...
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Australia's third-biggest iron ore producer Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (Fortescue) has announced its operating results for the first quarter of 2013. Fortescue said in its statement that its total iron ore shipments during the March ...
Tags: Fortescue, Improved Iron Ore
Taranto-based Italian steel producer Ilva is progressively restarting its finished steel production operations following recent favorable court decisions, having almost completely shut down its finished steel operations in late 2012. ...
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In February this year, the Italian seasonally adjusted construction output index decreased by 4.2 percent month on month following the 2.5 percent month-on-month decline observed in January, as announced by ISTAT, Italy's national ...
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Liaoning Province-based Chinese company Zhongyou Tipo Group has signed a cooperation agreement with Liaoning-based Dongbao Group Shipbuilding Co. to build a new steel pipe production facility in Huludao, Liaoning, as announced by the ...
Tags: Steel Pipe, Mineral
In March this year, Japanese crude steel production increased by 13.5 percent compared to the previous month, while it rose by 1.3 percent year on year, totaling 9.4 million mt, according to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel ...
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ThyssenKrupp, a German multinational conglomerate corporation has planned to cooperate with Ansteel, who is the second largest steel maker in China to construct a new hot dip galvanized production line for expansion. This joint venture ...
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