In the January-July period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 480.76 million mt, up 2.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on August 25. The growth rate ...
Tags: China's Crude Steel, Output, Metallurgy
According to the data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the number of buildings authorized by building permits from municipalities in Turkey in the first half of the current year increased to 74,214, up 24.6 percent from ...
Fujian Province-based Chinese steelmaker Fujian Sangang (Group) Co. issued its financial results for the first half of the current year on August 25, announcing a net loss of RMB 43.1284 million ($7.01 million) compared to a net loss of RMB ...
US-based coal producer Walter Energy has announced that it has completed a previously announced transaction to sell the Blue Creek Terminal and associated properties, located in Mobile, Alabama, to the Alabama State Port Authority for $25 ...
Long held assumptions about the direction and dynamics of the iron ore market have been severely tested in 2014. After hitting a high of $158.90 in February, the industry was jolted on March 10, when iron ore suffered the worst one-day ...
Tags: Iron Ore, raw material
Global mining deals picked up in the first half of 2014 and are likely to continue that way for the rest of the year, a SNL Metals & Mining study released Friday shows. Both the averages of price paid and value of acquired commodities ...
Offers for Chinese domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 rebounded Tuesday, mainly on higher primary aluminum ingot prices despite no significant change in physical buying interest during the current summer lull, industry sources said. ...
Tags: Aluminum Alloy, Mineral
Australian steelmaker BlueScope Steel has posted a net loss of AU$82.4 million for the financial year 2013-14 ended on June 30, narrowing down from a net loss of AU$107.1 million in the previous financial year, due to increased spreads and ...
Tags: BlueScope Steel, Loss, Metallurgy
Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji registered a quarter-on-quarter growth of 26.7 percent in its sales revenues in the second quarter of the current year, ...
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The Turkish Steel Exporters' Association chairman Namk Ekinci has said that the US antidumping and countervailing duty decision on Turkish OCTG imports is without basis. The US International Trade Commission (ITC) decision confirmed the ...
Tags: Turkish Producers, OCTG Imports, Metallurgy
According to the monthly sectoral confidence survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the confidence index for the construction sector in Turkey, which stood at 79.2 points in July of the current year, increased by ...
Tags: Construction Sector, Increase, Metallurgy
Shanghai-based Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (Baosteel) has issued its financial report for the first half of the current year, stating that in the given period it achieved an operating revenue of RMB 97.598 billion ...
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Baker Hughes reported that for the week ending August 22 the US rig count decreased by 17 to 1,896, following a five-rig increase the week before. The rig count is still up by 120 from 1,776 rigs during the same week a year ago. The gas rig ...
Speaking at the 2014 China Coal, Coke & Steel Industries Conference (CCIC) held in Qingdao on August 21, Wang Xiaoqi, vice chairman of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), stated that in the first seven months of the current year ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Metallurgy
In the January-July period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China amounted to 20.66 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 21.5 percent year on year, according to figures released by the China Association of the ...
Tags: Shipbuilding Output, new ship