Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the first five months of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 28.6 million mt, up two percent or 601,000 mt year on year. The ...
In the second quarter of the current year, the crude steel production of Russian steelmaker MMK Group totaled 3.390 million mt, up 6.3 percent compared to the first quarter of the year, while its crude steel output in the first half of the ...
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) has announced its production and sales data for the second quarter of the current year. According to the company statement, NLMK's crude steel output in the second quarter decreased to 3.774 ...
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Nucor Corporation announced Thursday consolidated net earnings of $147.0 million for the second quarter of 2014. By comparison, Nucor reported net earnings of $111.0 million in the first quarter of 2014 and net earnings of $85.1 million in ...
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Brazilian sales of civil construction materials fell 13.6 percent in June, year-on-year, according to the country’s construction materials industry association (Abramat). According to Abramat, sales decreased 11 percent in June over ...
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According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q3 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the first quarter of the current year construction activity in the European Union (EU) ...
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The Spanish stainless steel producer Acerinox S.A. has reported a net profit of €76.1 million in the first half of the current year, increasing by 373 percent compared to the same period of 2013, while its net sales came to €2.17 ...
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According to the data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 87 percent of total world DRI production in 2013 amounted to 4.72 ...
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Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji's finished steel output decreased by 3.5 percent year on year to 334,000 mt in the first half of this year. In the ...
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In July this year, the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing industry was 74.6 percent, down from 75.0 percent recorded in June, while the capacity utilization rate in the Turkish basic metal manufacturing ...
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Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced its financial results for the second quarter of the current year, indicating that stainless steel demand continued to recover and base prices increased moderately in both Europe ...
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Mexico's Ministry of Economy has announced that it has decided to initiate an administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) on imports of welded carbon steel connections from China. In June this year, the Mexican steel producer ...
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Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp. (WISCO) has announced that its Hubei-based subsidiary Echeng Iron and Steel Co. has won a tender to supply 20,000 mt of steel plates for boiler and pressure vessles ...
Australian iron ore miner Atlas Iron has announced that it is set to record increased production, lower costs and significantly reduced capital expenditure in the financial year 2014-15 ending June 30, 2015. Atlas is on track to produce ...
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Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced that its Omani plant TMK Gulf International Pipe Industry (TMK GIPI) recently received an order for 18,400 mt of OCTG (threaded and coupled casing ...
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