The Secretariat of Economy (SE) of Mexico published a resolution this week that announces the antidumping investigation on imports of cold rolled steel sheet originating in China, regardless of the country of origin. The document ...
Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) has announced that NS BlueScope Thailand, part of NS BlueScope Coated Products, a joint venture between NSSMC and Australia-based BlueScope Steel Limited, has decided to ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of two Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling $1 million to fund green infrastructure projects in Chicago. The projects will improve water quality in Lake ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Japan-based PV vendor Sharp plans to hike the required energy conversion rates for P-type monocrystalline silicon solar cells its procures over the next 3-6 months, putting pressure to improve energy conversion rates on Taiwan-based makers, ...
Tags: taiwan, solar, Energy, Solar Cell
In the first quarter of the current year, Russian coal exports increased by 17.3 percent year on year to 35.819 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In March alone, Russia exported 12.123 million mt ...
Tags: Coal Exports, coal
Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has issued its financial results for the first quarter of the current year, stating that it expects demand for steel to pick up slightly in 2014. Nevertheless, demand growth will continue to be limited by ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Ruukki
Louisville, Kentucky-based Steel Technologies LLC announced Tuesday its agreement to purchase Stripco LLC, Stripco Sales Company, LLC, and Stripco Express Inc. (collectively, “Stripco”). Stripco is a premier value-added steel ...
Tags: Steel Technologies, Steel
Speaking on behalf of World Steel Dynamics (WSD) at SteelHome's 10th Steel Development Strategy Conference held recently in Shanghai, Wu Wenzheng, president of SteelHome, said that WSD's global steel output forecast for 2014 is 1.61 billion ...
Tags: Scrap Prices, Steel
UK-based mining giant Anglo American Corporation has announced its production results for the first quarter of the current year. In the given quarter, iron ore production from Kumba Iron Ore increased by 10 percent year on year to 11.3 ...
Tags: Iron Ore, mining giant
According to the monthly sectoral confidence survey released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the confidence index* for the construction sector in Turkey, which stood at 78.2 points in March of the current year, increased by 0.3 ...
Tags: Construction Sector
Austria-based voestalpine broke ground Wednesday on the construction of a EUR 550 million (US$760 million) direct reduction plant in Corpus Christi, Texas. The plant, which represents the largest foreign investment in the history of ...
Tags: voestalpine, mechanical equipment
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Wednesday the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on stainless steel bar from Spain. The review covers one company — Gerdau Aceros Especiales ...
Tags: Stainless Bar, dumping duty
According to data released by the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) on April 24, as of the end of March (March 31), the composite steel price index (CSPI) for the Chinese domestic market was at 94.83 points, down 1.63 points or 1.69 ...
Tags: Composite Steel, Iron, Steel
Evraz ZSMK, a Siberian steel division of steel and mining group Evraz, has announced that in the first three months this year it shipped 1.62 million mt of rolled steel products by railway, up 7.3 percent compared to the same period of last ...
Tags: Rolled Steel, steel, mining
Australian miner BHP Billiton today celebrated the official opening of its new Jimblebar iron ore mine, which is located at 40 kilometres east of Newman in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Jimblebar delivered first production in ...
Tags: BH Billiton, Iron Ore