Local news outlets reported late Tuesday that the Mississippi County Planning and Development Committee approved $14.5 million in funding for a planned new steel mill in Arkansas. Big River Steel is a proposed $1.1 billion flat rolled steel ...
Tags: Big River Steel, steel mill, steel
In February this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 137,135 metric tons, decreasing 32.2 percent compared to January, and down 45.1 percent compared to the same month of 2012, according to the monthly data ...
Tags: Ore Exports, Port Hedland, Metallurgy
According to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association (JISF), steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic steel consuming sectors in Japan in January of the current year amounted to 7.4 million ...
Tags: Domestic Steel Orders, Japan, Metallurgy
According to the data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in January this year Turkey's calendar adjusted monthly industrial production index increased by 1.9 percent year on year, while the index was up 2.3 percent ...
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Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that in January-February this year its Hebei-based subsidiary Handan Iron and Steel Co. (Hansteel) produced over 58,000 mt of line pipe steel. In particular, ...
Tags: Pipe Steel, Handan Steel, Metallurgy
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has suggested that the global miners have been manipulating the iron ore market by holding back cargos, artificially creating a supply shortage in the market, according to media ...
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According to statistics, the stocks of stainless steel products in the Chinese Wuxi market totaled 189,808 tons in the Chinese Wuxi market in the last 8 days of February, rising by 2.99% from that in mid-February. Among them, 104,812 ...
Tags: Stainless steel product, stainless steel, steel products
Switzerland-based plantmaker SMS Concast has announced that it will supply a 150-ton electric arc furnace (EAF) and process equipment for the US-based steelmaker Republic Steel, to be installed at its Lorain, Ohio plant. The new electric ...
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According to statistics released by Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF), Japan's shipments of cold rolled (CR) steel sheets and strips totaled 517,941 tons in January, rising by 4.4% from a month ago and increasing by 4% year on year. ...
South Africa-based Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT), one of the world's largest coal handling ports, has announced that it exported 5.45 million mt of coal in February, up 29.5 percent from 4.21 million mt in January and down 10.5 percent ...
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Switzerland based SMS Concast has announced that it has received an order from the Indian steelmaker BMM Ispat for the delivery of a combined-caster. With the new caster, BMM Ispat will be able to produce 1.1 million mt of billets and ...
Tags: SMS Concast, steelmaker BMM, caster
The Interconnector [IUK] pipeline is nominated to ship a "massive record high" of gas from Belgium to the UK Tuesday, Platts' unit Bentek Energy said, following supply disruptions which drove a large price premium for UK gas Monday. ...
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Emirates Steel (ESI) will increase the output at its heavy sections mill from 25,000-30,000 tons to 45,000-50,000 tons per month in the second quarter of this year. The company will aim the construction projects in the Gulf Cooperation ...
Tags: Steel, heavy sections mill, rebar
It's reported that steel rebar futures at Shagnhai Futures Exchange (SHFE) fell for a second day to the lowest level in more than six weeks on nine consecutive weeks of climbing inventories in China, showing a sign of oversupply in the ...
Tags: Steel rebar, Steel.rebar
The CME Group announced Tuesday that it reached monthly trading volume records for its NYMEX US Midwest Domestic Hot-Rolled Coil Steel Index futures (HRC) and options (HRO) contracts in February. During the month of February, US Midwest ...
Tags: HRC, Hot Rolled Coil Steel, Steel