According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the January-July period this year amounted to 19.68 million metric tons, 0.9 percent lower year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel output ...
Tags: Brazilian Steel, Exports, Mineral
Turkey's leading steel pipe producer Borusan Mannesmann Boru has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half this year, posting a net profit of TRY 18.2 million ($8.4 million) in the second quarter, rising from ...
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Taxes on Brazil steel products have been adding costs to the competitiveness of the country’s industry, an executive said recently. Citing a comment from Sergio Leite, vice-president for sales at Usiminas, a media report said high ...
Tags: Taxes, Competitiveness, Energy
In July this year, Ukrainian metallurgical company Dneprospetsstal (DSS) saw a 1.09 percent month-on-month increase in its crude steel production to 46,100 mt. The company's output of finished steel in the same period increased by 7.1 ...
UAE-based steelmaker Emirates Steel has announced that it is now focusing on high-margin, high-strength value-added products amid better demand prospects and mega expansion plans in the pipeline within the Middle East region. Emirates ...
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International credit rating agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed mining company Samarco’s rating at BBB, with a stable perspective, it said recently. The rating is based on Samarco’s highly profitable operations, low-cost ...
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France's manufacturing output in June this year increased by 1.6 percent month on month, after a 2.3 percent fall in May, and decreased by 0.9 percent year on year, according to the statistics released by France's National Institute of ...
According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in June this year the seasonally adjusted index of iron ore mining production in South Africa decreased by 5.8 percent, while the country's manganese ore production ...
Turkish rebar producer Izmir Demir elik Sanayi A.. (IDC) has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of the current year. The company stated that the US revising its growth expectations from three percent ...
Tags: Scrap, Metallurgy, Mineral
In the week from August 11 to August 17, on the Orbis Steel Index the scrap indexes moved upwards. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index increased for the second consecutive week, while the Turkish flat rolled product indexes showed ...
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In July this year, of 70 major Chinese cities surveyed, two cities saw higher prices in the new house market, 64 cities witnessed lower prices, while new house prices in the remaining four cities were unchanged, all compared to June this ...
Tags: China, Declines, Metallurgy
Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of the current year, posting a net profit of TRY 99.2 ...
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Egypt's largest steelmaker Ezz Steel has announced its financial results for the first quarter of the current year, reporting a net loss of EGP 19 million ($2.65 million), compared to a net profit of EGP 202 million in the first quarter of ...
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On August 18, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in early August (August 1-10) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China - all CISA members - ...
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Taiwan's largest steelmaker China Steel Corporation (CSC) has announced that in July this year its carbon steel sales volume amounted to 801,789 metric tons, decreasing by a slight margin compared to June and accounting for 65 percent of ...
Tags: CSC, Sales, Metallurgy