According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in April this year the seasonally adjusted index of iron ore mining production in South Africa decreased by three percent, while the country's manganese ore production ...
Tags: Iron Ore, nickel sales
According to the report released by Argentina's steel chamber, in May this year the country's crude steel production was down 0.6 percent month on month and increased by 7.6 percent year on year, amounting to 482,900 metric tons. Production ...
Tags: Crude Steel, hot rolled steel
Brazil and Argentina announced an extension on an automotive agreement that aims to reinforce their bilateral relations, Brazil’s chamber of foreign trade (Camex) said on Wednesday. Under the agreement, both countries are expected ...
Tags: Automotive Sector, auto parts
According to Statistics Canada, Canadian industries operated at 82.5 percent of their production capacity in the first quarter, up slightly from 82.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013. The mining and oil and gas extraction industries ...
Tags: Mining, transportation equipment
In May this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.8 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on June 13, with this growth rate 0.1 percentage points higher than that ...
Tags: Industrial Output, steel output
Russia-based steel pipe producer ChTPZ Group has stated that it has dispatched four pipes of 1,420 mm diameter with wall thickness of 21.7 mm, with external and internal anti-corrosion coating, made of MMK's sheet steel of K60 grade for the ...
Tags: Welding Pipes, Gas Pipeline
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final greenhouse gas (GHG) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) construction permit to C3 Petrochemicals LLC in Alvin, Texas. C3 plans to construct a new propane ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Gas
Scrap market activity remained sluggish in eastern China over the week with prices mainly holding steady and unlikely to gain any upward momentum in the short term as the outlook for the finished steel market remains pessimistic, market ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Heavy Scrap
According to the data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in April this year Turkey's season and calendar adjusted monthly industrial production increased by one percent compared to March, while the calendar adjusted index ...
Tags: Basic Metal, Mineral
China exported 8.07 million mt of finished steel in May this year, up 7.03 percent month on month, while it exported 33.94 million mt of finished steel in the January-May period of the year, rising by 33.6 percent year on year, according to ...
Tags: Finished Steel, iron ore
Swiss-headquartered resources company Ferrexpo, which controls the Poltava GOK and Yeristovsky GOK iron ore mines in Ukraine, has announced that in the January-May period of the current year its overall iron ore pellet production increased ...
India's finished steel consumption totaled 12.62 million mt in the first two months of the current Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2014), with a 0.5 percent year-on-year increase, according to provisional estimates released by the ...
According to the short-range outlook report issued by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, demand has continued to improve in the global long steel products market, especially in the Americas and ...
Tags: Long Steel Markets, Healthy Demand
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that for the month of April 2014, US steel mills shipped 8,235,096 net tons, a 1.2 percent decrease from the 8,337,578 net tons shipped in the previous month, March 2014, and a ...
Tags: Steel Shipments, Steel
In the week ending June 7, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,845,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 76.7 percent, according to a report Monday from the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). Production was ...