According to the statistics released by the US International Trade Commission (US ITC), in June this year exports of iron and steel scrap from the US amounted to 1.27 million mt, decreasing by 28.05 percent from May and down 9.53 percent ...
China has been exporting finished steel to Latin America at lower prices when compared to the rest of the world, the Latin America steel association Alacero said. In the first half of the year, the region received 4 million mt of ...
Insteel Industries, Inc. announced Monday that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Insteel Wire Products Company has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets associated with the prestressed concrete ...
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International commodities producer and trader Glencore has announced that in the first half of the current year its coking coal output from Australian operations amounted to 2.9 million mt, falling 28 percent compared to the first half of ...
In June this year, seasonally-adjusted industrial production decreased by 0.3 percent in the euro area and by 0.4 percent in the EU-28 as compared with May, while industrial production in May had decreased by 1.1 percent in both zones, ...
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Brazil steelmaker Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) has confirmed it is interested in acquiring US-based Gallatin Steel, according to a CSN executive. "We've tried to enter in the Severstal deal and we didn't succeed. We're looking at ...
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In July this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 9.0 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on August 13, with this growth rate 0.2 percentage points lower than the ...
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In the January-July period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 25.9493 trillion ($4.2 trillion), up 17 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of ...
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BOSTON – Seven companies in New England that store and distribute oil have all created or updated spill prevention plans and come into compliance with federal oil pollution prevention laws, thereby ensuring that the local environment ...
While the China government has been promoting PV power generation, there is a potential problem that the capacity of its power transmission systems in areas where large PV power-generating stations are concentrated is not enough to transmit ...
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Brazil’s crude steel production fell 4.9 percent in June, year-on-year, to 2.6 million metric tons (mt), the country’s steel institute (IABr) said. “We’re seeing the portrait of what was being drawn during the ...
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Global crude steel production in June this year increased by 3.1 percent year on year to 137.122 million metric tons, while a 2.88 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending July 19, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,893,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 78.7 percent. Production was 1,852,000 net tons in the ...
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Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced its operational results for the first half of the current year. In the first half, TMK shipped 2.056 million mt of steel pipes to customers, ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the second quarter of this year Turkey's building construction cost index increased 1.7 percent quarter on quarter and was up 11.4 percent compared to the ...
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