In April of the current year, new motor vehicle registrations (including automobiles and commercial vehicles) in the German market totaled 300,650 units, down by 8.61 month on month and decreasing 3.51 percent year on year, according to the ...
Tags: Auto Output, motor vehicle
Monterrey, Mexico-based PMP Grupo-Planeación, in partnership with India-based Preet Group-PG, announced plans this week to expand into the US and Canada, building mini-mills to process steel scrap. The announcement Monday at the ...
Tags: mini-mills, steel scrap
As of May 6, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 108.95 million mt, up 640,000 mt or 0.59 percent compared to the inventory level recorded on April 28, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Chinese Ports
According to the short-range outlook report issued by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, the global long steel products market is still characterized by uncertainty amid the adverse effects of ...
Tags: Long Steel Demand, steel products
China has officially unveiled this year’s energy policies and will continue to develop renewable energy. To drive investment and demand to installations, the Chinese government implemented some feed-in tariff (FiT) programs and ...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Solar Energy
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) actions to improve its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program, which provides information on the health effects of environmental contaminants, were applauded in a report by ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Service
Taiwan citizens could soon see a jump in electricity costs as the country faces energy shortages. Anti-nuclear sentiment is gaining momentum in the country as construction for Taiwan’s controversial fourth nuclear power plants nears ...
Tags: Energy Saving, Electricity Costs
India's state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced that it registered a growth of 14 percent in finished steel product sales in April, amounting to 810,000 mt. In the given month, the company's finished ...
Tags: steelmaker, steel Sales
In the first four months of the current year, Turkey's steel exports totaled 6.3 million mt, down 7.6 percent year on year, while the value of these exports decreased by 7.1 percent year on year to $4.7 billion, according to the data ...
Tags: Steel Exports, steel
Australia-based Aquila Resources Limited has announced that it has received a A$1.42 million takeover offer from Baosteel Resources Australia Pty Ltd (Baosteel) and Australian rail and logistics company Aurizon Operations Limited (Aurizon) ...
Tags: Baosteel, Aurizon, Aquila Resources
India-based steelmaker Essar Steel has announced that it has entered the European plate market with an order for 1,200 mt of quenched and tempered steel plates, making the first shipment of 600 mt to Turkey for building tipper bodies for ...
Steel is still expected to remain the main material of choice for carmakers, as shifting to aluminium is a costly process and Asian markets are unlikely to be open to taking on these costs, according to a report published Friday by ...
Tags: Aluminium, Auto-Making, Steel
Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji's finished steel output decreased by 16 percent year on year to 149,000 mt in the first quarter this year. In the given ...
Tags: steel giant, Iron, Steel
Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) successfully completed the reconstruction in one of their blast furnaces this week, with an investment of US$7.6 million. The project interconnects the systems hot and cold air, gas collection and ...
Tags: Blast Furnace, AHMSA
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Tuesday its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of prestressed concrete steel rail tie wire (PC tie wire) from the People’s Republic of ...
Tags: PC tie wire, Dumping