Back in 2010, the European Union's Ad-Hoc Working Group on Defining Critical Raw Materials published its first criticality analysis for raw materials. Its goal was fairly simple: to define the raw materials critical to the EU’s ...
Tags: Tantalum, Raw Materials
China's coal mining and washing industry reported profits falling 43.9% year on year to Yuan 51.26 billion ($8.3 billion) during the first five months of this year, mainly due to sagging coal prices, data from the National Bureau of ...
Tags: Coal Mining, Washing Industry
In the first four months of this year, Japan's galvanized sheet output amounted to 3.98 million mt, up 2.13 percent compared to the same period of 2013. In April, the country's galvanized sheet output decreased by 13.54 percent compared to ...
In April this year, Japan's hot rolled plate and sheet shipments decreased by 10.36 percent compared to March and were up 2.04 percent on year-on-year basis, amounting to 860,207 metric tons. 80 percent of shipments were made to the ...
Tags: hot rolled plate, hot rolled sheet
In March this year, European stainless crude steel production increased by one percent to 710,000 metric tons, with Sweden's production increasing by six percent, Slovenia's production up two percent and Germany's production down 20 ...
Tags: Stainless Crude Steel, Crude Steel
According to first estimates released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in April this year the seasonally-adjusted production of the construction sector in the European Union member states (EU-28) increased by ...
Global crude steel production in May this year increased by 2.2 percent year on year to 141.18 million metric tons, while a 3.34 percent rise was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). In ...
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According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the first five months of the current year amounted to 14.01 million metric tons, 0.8 percent lower year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel ...
Tags: Crude Steel, steelmakers
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in May this year Turkish producers' foreign sales price index (PPI)* in general decreased by 1.62 percent from April and was up 15.93 percent year on year, ...
Tags: Metal Producers, basic metal
In the first five months of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 493.64 million mt, rising by 1.22 percent compared to the same period of 2013, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for approximately ...
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On June 20, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in May this year China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) issued iron ore import licenses for a total of 99.6534 million mt, down 8.46 percent month on month, valued at ...
Tags: Iron Ore Import, iron ore
In the January-May period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China amounted to 13.02 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 24.3 percent year on year, according to figures released by the China Association of the ...
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 5.08 ...
Tags: DRI Output, worldsteel
According to the data released by the Japan Ship Exporters' Association (JSEA), Japanese new ship export orders in May this year decreased by 69.23 percent on tonnage basis compared to April, amounting to 14 ships, down from 29 ships ...
Tags: Ship Export, shipbuilders
Taiwan's industrial production index in May this year increased by 5.19 percent as compared to May 2013 and was up 4.51 percent month on month, according to the country's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). Meanwhile, Taiwan's seasonally ...
Tags: Basic Metal, industrial production