China's steel production has plateaued and mills are focusing on complying with tougher anti-pollution measures instead of expanding capacity, a senior official at the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) said on Wednesday. The fight ...
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Uzbekistan-based steel producer Uzmetkombinat has announced that in the first quarter this year it increased its crude steel output by 1.1 percent year on year to 177,000 mt, while its rolled steel production went up by 0.2 percent compared ...
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India's finished steel consumption totaled 73.93 million mt in the whole of the last Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2013-ended March 31, 2014), with a 0.6 percent year-on-year increase, according to provisional estimates released by ...
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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 ...
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In April this year, Ukrainian steelmaker Zaporizhstal's finished steel product output increased by 2.2 percent year on year to 276,500 mt, while its crude steel production amounted to 323,000 mt, up 0.8 percent year on year, according to ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending May 3, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,815,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 75.5 percent. Production was 1,835,000 net tons in the ...
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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 ...
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In March this year, Japan's industrial production increased by 0.3 percent from February and rose by seven percent from March 2013, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report published by Japan's Ministry of ...
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In the first quarter this year, Turkey's finished steel output increased by 2.9 percent to 8.74 million metric tons, despite the 0.5 percent decrease in the country's crude steel output in the given period to 8.43 million metric tons, both ...
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The expected growth in global steel demand through 2050 may require a tripling of current seaborne metallurgical coal exports, which may be tough for miners to deliver, according to forecasts delivered Monday by two consultants. An annual ...
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Swedish specialty steel producer SSAB has posted its financial results for the first quarter of the current year, reporting a net loss of SEK 49 million ($7.5 million) for the given quarter, compared to a net loss of SEK 137 million in the ...
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In the first quarter of the current year, China's production of pig iron, crude steel and finished steel amounted to 179.71 million mt, 202.70 million mt and 261.41 million mt, respectively, up 0.14 percent, 2.37 percent and 5.3 percent ...
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According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the first quarter of the current year amounted to 8.32 million metric tons, 1.5 percent higher year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending April 26, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,835,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 76.3 percent. Production was 1,837,000 net tons in the ...
US raw steel production moved up about 1.5% week on week due to gains in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. The US produced about 1.84 million st of raw steel at an average ...