The latest figures issued by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) show that in March this year European Union (EU) new car registrations continued the downward year-on-year trend commenced in October 2011, totaling ...
Tags: New Car Registrations, Mineral
According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in February this year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-27) decreased ...
Tags: Construction Output, Mineral
The European Steel Association (EUROFER) has said that it welcomes the European Parliament's decision to reject the European Commission's (EC) proposal to reduce the number of free carbon allowances. According to EUROFER, the European ...
Tags: EU Parliament, Carbon Allowances
As reported by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in 2012 German exports of waste such as scrap metal, waste paper, waste plastics and slag decreased significantly in 2012 compared to 2011 by 7.3 percent to 22.6 million mt. ...
Tags: Scrap Metal, Alloy Export
As of April 15, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 70.53 million mt, indicating a decrease of 2.45 million mt or 3.36 percent on week-on-week basis, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of April 15, the ...
Tags: Iron Ore Inventory, Mineral
According to the Japanese Ministry of Trade (METI), Japanese demand for crude steel in the second quarter of the current year is expected to decrease by 0.9 percent from the previous quarter to 26.4 million mt, with an expected decline of ...
Tags: Crude Steel Demand, Mineral
It's reported that Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton both see iron ore and coal deliveries to be lower due to several cyclones attacked northern Australia earlier this year. It is also expected that there will more shipments in the April to June ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
Reportedly, Reliance Steel & Aluminum, California-based service center has acquired Metals USA for US$20.65 per share in cash. Accordingly, Metals USA has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum. Besides, the merger ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Turkish plantmaker CVS Makina has announced that it has signed a contract with Turkish steelmaker Yolbulan Bastug Metalurji regarding the supply of a rolling mill with an annual round bar and rebar production capacity of 830,000 mt. CVS ...
ArcelorMittal South Africa has announced that its three basic oxygen furnaces (BOF) damaged during the fire which occurred at Vanderbijlpark plant on February 9 this year have been recommissioned and are now fully operational. The ...
Tags: Arcelormitta, Mineral
Ukrainian steel pipe and wheel producer Interpipe has announced that its new electric furnace-based steelmaking complex Dneprostal (Interpipe Steel) produced approximately 110,000 mt of steel in March this year in line with the scheduled ...
Tags: Interpipe Steel, Mineral
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced that during last week (April 8-14) the average steel price in China increased by 0.1 percent compared to the previous week. In particular, in the given week prices of 3 mm hot rolled sheet, ...
Tags: Average Steel Price, Mineral
Russia's second largest coking coal producer Raspadskaya has stated that in the first quarter of the current year its sales of coal concentrate increased by 49 percent year on year to 1.4 million mt, while its sales of run-of-mine coal ...
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that US raw steel production rose 1.2 percent in the week ending April 13, following a 2.1 percent jump the previous week, as well as increases in the two prior weeks. Total raw ...
Tags: Raw Steel Production, Mineral
In its first quarter operations review, the global iron ore production of Australia-based Rio Tinto, the world's second biggest iron ore producer, increased by four percent to 61.2 million mt compared to the first quarter of 2012, setting a ...
Tags: Rio Tinto, Iron Ore Output