The World Steel Association (worldsteel) expects apparent steel consumption in the US to deliver a return to growth and recovery in 2014-2015, after a decrease of 0.6 percent in 2013, according to its short range outlook. Worldsteel ...
According to the short range outlook of the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in the MENA region, steel demand is expected to grow by 6.1 percent to 66.7 million mt in 2014 after a 0.9 percent increase in 2013. Worldsteel pointed out ...
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France's manufacturing output in February this year increased by 0.3 percent month on month, according to the statistics released by France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). In February, France's production ...
Tags: Metal Industry, basic metals
Brazil-based Gerdau Group has announced that it has presented a preliminary proposal for the acquisition of the French special steel producer Ascometal for €41.5 million. Ascometal has three steel plants located in Hagondange, Les ...
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Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that its subsidiary Hebei Iron and Steel Group Mining Co. (Hebei Steel Mining) produced 2.078 million mt of iron ore concentrate in the January-March period of ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Concentrate Output, Steel
In February of the current year, steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic sectors in Japan amounted to 4.72 million metric tons, up 1.32 percent compared to February 2013, according to the data released by the ...
Tags: Steel Product, specialty steels
Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has announced that it will replace the blast furnace oil injection system at its Raahe steel plant with a new pulverized coal injection (PCI) system to improve steelmaking cost efficiency by reducing raw ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa (SSA), in February this year South Africa's manufacturing output rose by 1.4 percent compared to the same month of 2013. The main reasons for the increase included the ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Output
In March this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports decreased by 0.9 percent year on year and increased by 28.6 percent compared to February to $1.63 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry ...
In the first quarter of the current year, direct supplies of steel scrap by rail to Russian metallurgical companies and pipe plants totaled 2.14 million mt, down 2.8 percent year on year and constituting the lowest first quarter volume the ...
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According to figures issued by Russian Railways, in March this year direct deliveries of cast iron, rolled steel, pipes and semi-finished products to locomotive, car repair and car production plants in Russia (including dual-purpose ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TUIK), Turkey's monthly industrial turnover index in February this year increased by 20.3 percent year on year and was down 0.2 percent month on month, following the ...
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German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it has received an order from Turkey-based steel producer Karabük Demir Celik (Kardemir) for the supply of a special bar quality (SBQ) rolling mill for the production of surface-quenched ...
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In March this year, production and sales of automotive vehicles in China amounted to 2.2017 million units and 2.1691 million units, up by 34.4 percent and 35.8 percent month on month respectively, as stated by the China Association of ...
Australia's Antidumping Commission has announced that it has initiated an antidumping (AD) investigation against imports of hot rolled wire rod in coils with a diameter of less than 14 mm from Indonesia, Taiwan and Turkey, upon the ...