In the week ended April 1, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 3 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes an increase of 26.4 percent ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Gansu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hongxing Iron and Steel Co., a subsidiary of Gansu-based Jiuquan Iron and Steel Group (JISCO), has announced that in 2012 its operating revenue amounted to RMB 63.7 billion ($10.24 billion), up by ...
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Evraz UGOK (Southern Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise), a subsidiary of Russian mining and steel producing company Evraz Group, has announced that in March this year its iron ore concentrate production increased by 1.1 percent year on ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Russian steelmaker Evraz has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a stake in the Timir joint venture project for a total consideration of RUB 4.950 million (approximately $160 million) to be paid in several instalments. At ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The US Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced Friday that construction spending during February 2013 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $885.1 billion, 1.2 percent above the revised January estimate of ...
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Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal (NSSMC) announced that Nippon Steel & Sumikin Coated Sheet, its subsidiary, has finished the investment to a joint venture with BlueScope from Australia. NSSMC bought the 50% share of the joint venture from ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Nippon Steel, Sumikin Coated Sheet
According to the customs statistics released by the Japanese Ministry of Finance, Japan's iron and steel product exports in February this year amounted to 3.6 million metric tons, increasing by 12.6 percent compared to the same month of ...
Tags: Steel Exports, Japan, Mineral
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has suspended cold rolled coil (CRC) exports to Indonesia after the Indonesian government announced to levy antidumping (AD) duty on CRC imports from Japan. According to data released by the South ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel, cold rolled coil
According to media report, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) accounted that SOCAR would like to strengthen the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey to a strategic partnership level with an investment volume worth US$17 ...
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On Friday, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the initiation of administrative reviews of antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders with a February anniversary date. The DOC initiated the following administrative ...
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On Friday, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the final results of its administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea. The review covered three ...
Tags: Minimal CVD Margins, Flat Steel, Mineral
On Monday, Canton, Ohio-based The Timken Company announced that it filed an updated investor presentation with the Securities and Exchange Commission highlighting the flaws in the analysis behind the shareholder proposal from The California ...
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Russia-based Severstal, one of the world’s leading steel and steel-related mining companies, has stated that it has secured a contract to supply automotive sheets to Renault-Nissan Alliance projects in Russia. The contract runs ...
Tags: Automotive Sheets, Renault-Nissan, Mineral
The Government of Saskatchewan has proclaimed April 1-7 as Asbestos Awareness Week to raise awareness about asbestos-related diseases and the risks of asbestos exposure. According to the World Health Organization, says the government, about ...
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It is reported that China’s Baosteel predicts the steel market will expect to improve this year but the steel production capacity will keep flat due to overcapacity problem would remain serious. The company is optimize to see the ...
Tags: Baosteel, steel market, steel production