New Saab owner National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) has reportedly re-opened the former Swedish brand’s Trollhattan factory that shut its gates in April 2011 prior to the company filing for bankruptcy later that year. According ...
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The Russian steelmaker NLMK announced its financial result for the second quarter and the first half of 2013. NLMK posted a net profit of US$34 million for the second quarter, falling by 87.8% year on year. Its sales revenues totaled ...
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It is learned that the German steel giant ThyssenKrupp recorded a loss of €1.2 billion euro in the first three quarters of this fiscal year, down by 23% compare to loss of €0.98 billion in the same period last year. The main ...
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It is reported that the Taiwanese firm, Formosa Plastics Group has agreed to buy nearly a third of a new iron ore project in Australia. The FMG Iron Ore Bridge project in Western Australia is 88% owned by Fortescue and 12% by Baosteel. ...
Tags: Formosa Plastics, Iron Ore
According to statistics released by Taiwan’s Customs, the country’s imports of seamless steel pipes totaled 9,984 tons in July, lower than 10,952 tons in June. In July, China was the largest seamless steel pipe exporter to ...
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According to the provisional estimates released by the Joint Plant Committee (JPC), India’s finished steel consumption amounted to 24.1 million tons in the first four months of the Indian fiscal year 2013/14 started from April 1st, ...
According to statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), Turkey’s imports of steel flat products totaled 3 million tons in the first half of this year, rising by 25.6% year on year. In the given period of time, ...
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Reportedly, the Korean steel giant Posco has officially commissioned its new stainless steel cold rolling mill in Turkey. It’s known that the designed annual production capacity of this new stainless steel cold rolling mill is at ...
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According to statistics released by Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI), the US’s steel service center’s steel inventories totaled 7.84 million short tons in July, decreasing by 12.2% year on year. The July’s ...
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It’s reported that Baosteel Stainless, one of the major stainless steel producers in China announced to raise its export prices for austenitic stainless steel coils by US$50/ton in order to reflect higher stainless steel prices in the ...
According to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in September this year Ukraine's crude steel production is expected to decrease by 5.1 percent compared to July to 2.670 million mt. According to Metallurgprom's ...
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In the January-July period of this year, Ukraine's exports of iron ore increased by eight percent year on year to 22.003 million mt, according to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom. Meanwhile, exports of iron ore ...
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Baker Hughes reported Friday that for the week ending August 16, the US rig count was up 13 to 1,791, but down 123 from 1,914 rigs during the same week a year ago. The oil rig count increased by 12 to 1,397 and the gas rig count was up by ...
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On Friday, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) made its preliminary injury determinations in the antidumping (AD) investigations of OCTG from India, Korea, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, and ...
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Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that it shipped 3 million mt of iron ore from its Liberia operations between January 1 and August 8 of the current year, almost doubling last year's figures for the same period. In July, the ...
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