On April 10, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in the first quarter this year it exported 375,000 mt of finished steel, up 26 percent, with an export value of $220 million, ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Iron, Steel
On April 10, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in late March (Mar. 21-31) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.669 million mt, up ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
China exported 6.76 million mt of finished steel in March this year, up 28.03 percent, while it exported 18.33 million mt of finished steel in the whole of the first quarter, rising by 27 percent, both year on year, according to data issued ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
As of April 7, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 108.28 million mt*, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, the Xinhua-China Iron Ore Price Index for imported iron ore with 62 percent ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral
Turkish mills continued to buy scrap at higher levels Monday despite the increased raw material cost, meaning margins for finished steel ebbed away. The US re-entered the market with a deal from a New Orleans source at $388/mt for 25,000 ...
Tags: Steel Scrap, Turkish mills
Indian state-run steelmaking and mining company Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), also known as Vizag Steel, has announced that it registered a sales turnover of INR 135.3 billion ($2.24 billion) in the financial year 2013-14 ending ...
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Indian state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced that its finished steel sales increased by seven percent year-on-year to 12.1 million mt in financial year 2013-14 ending March 31. Growth in domestic sales ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, finished steel
Based on the Commerce Department's most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that steel import permit applications for the month of March total 3,485,000 ...
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Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in March this year it produced 704,000 mt of pig iron, down 24.02 percent, 749,800 mt of crude steel, down 19.14 percent, and 680,000 mt of ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Steel, finished steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
Gansu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Jiuquan Iron and Steel Group (JISCO) has announced that in 2013 its Gansu-based subsidiary Hongxing Steel recorded a net loss of RMB 2.338 billion ($383.28 million), as compared with a net profit of ...
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While current traded prices for L8 and L10 steelmaking pig iron in northern China's Hebei province have slipped since March 3, the market is likely to see higher traded values in the coming weeks with some offers seen rising by as much as ...
Tags: Pig Iron, steel mills, Iron
In the January-February period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 130.8 million mt, up 1.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The growth rate in question ...
Tags: Metallurgical Coke, crude steel, steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
In March this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector stood at 44.2 percent, up by 4.3 percentage points as compared to February, indicating the first rise after three consecutive month-on-month declines, as ...
Tags: Steel Sector, raw material
In February of the current year, Turkey's steel imports declined by 21.2 percent to 958,000 mt, while the value of these imports decreased by 13 percent to $877 million, both on year-on-year basis, according to the data released by the ...
Tags: steel imports, iron, steel
Shanghai Province-based Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (Baosteel) has issued its financial report for 2013, stating that in the given year it achieved an operating revenue of RMB 189.688 billion ($31.1 billion), down 0.76 ...
Tags: Steel, Baosteel, Metallurgy, Mineral