Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that the new sinter plant No. 2 supplied for Taiwan-based Dragon Steel Corporation recently commenced production. The new sinter plant was built as part of the steelmaker's ...
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Russian steelmaker NLMK has announced that it has held a ceremony on July 23 to mark the opening of NLMK Kaluga, its next-generation EAF mill located in the Kaluga region near Moscow. The launch of NLMK Kaluga will help tackle the ...
Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced its operational results for the second quarter of the current year. Accordingly, Severstal's crude steel output increased by five percent quarter on quarter to 4.031 million mt in the second ...
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In June this year, global pig iron production amounted to 96.06 million metric tons, decreasing by 4.1 percent compared to May and up 3.62 percent on year-on-year basis, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for ...
Finland-based nickel and zinc miner Talvivaara Mining Company Plc has announced that it produced 1,776 mt of nickel in the second quarter of the current year and 4,508 mt of nickel in the first six months. The company carried out a ...
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Turkish plantmaker CVS Makina has announced that the six-strand high-speed billet caster of Russia-based AEMZ Company has produced its first billets. The billet caster was supplied by CVS Makina within the scope of AEMZ Company's turnkey ...
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On Monday, an explosion occurred during routine maintenance work at the DRI intake of an electric arc furnace at steelmaker Ternium's Guerrero facility in Monterrey, Mexico. The causes of the incident, which killed four and injured 10, are ...
Tags: Ternium Reports, Steel Mill
On July 23, the Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the initiation of antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of certain oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from India, the Republic of Korea (Korea), the Republic of the Philippines ...
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West Chester, Ohio-based flat rolled steelmaker AK Steel reported Tuesday a net loss of $40.4 million for Q2 2013, ended June 30, 2013, compared to a net loss of $724.2 million for Q2 of 2012. Net sales for Q2 2013 were $1.4 billion on ...
Tags: AK Steel, Carbon Spot Market
Beijing-based Chinese steelmaker Shougang Co. has announced that in the first half of this year its Xinjiang-based subsidiary Yili Iron and Steel Co. achieved a sales revenue of RMB 730 million ($118 million), up 28.8 percent year on year. ...
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The Spanish stainless steel producer Acerinox S.A. has said that in the second quarter of the current year the international financial crisis, a lack of confidence and the overcapacity in the sector continued to affect the stainless steel ...
Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has announced that it has entered into definitive agreements on cooperation with Canadian iron ore exploration company Black Iron and to invest in BKI Cyprus, which is a wholly-owned ...
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PPG Industries has announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility for the production of heavy-duty equipment coatings in Tianjin, China. The Tianjin site also has installed equipment to help reduce volatile organic compound (VOC) ...
Sheffield based independent research, test and design specialist, Glass Technology Services Ltd (GTS), has completed a £500K investment programme to meet increasing demand throughout the glass supply chain. The two-year programme ...
After off-season of June and July, LED lighting will not usher in the season until August and September to the end of this year, and the base of last year is poor, from the third quarter, the year on year growth of LED enterprises is ...
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