In July this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 9.0 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on August 13, with this growth rate 0.2 percentage points lower than the ...
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While the China government has been promoting PV power generation, there is a potential problem that the capacity of its power transmission systems in areas where large PV power-generating stations are concentrated is not enough to transmit ...
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Brazil’s crude steel production fell 4.9 percent in June, year-on-year, to 2.6 million metric tons (mt), the country’s steel institute (IABr) said. “We’re seeing the portrait of what was being drawn during the ...
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Global crude steel production in June this year increased by 3.1 percent year on year to 137.122 million metric tons, while a 2.88 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending July 19, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,893,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 78.7 percent. Production was 1,852,000 net tons in the ...
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Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced its operational results for the first half of the current year. In the first half, TMK shipped 2.056 million mt of steel pipes to customers, ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the second quarter of this year Turkey's building construction cost index increased 1.7 percent quarter on quarter and was up 11.4 percent compared to the ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) published Monday antidumping (AD) orders on welded stainless steel pressure pipe from Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. For Malaysia, the DOC calculated final dumping margins of 167.11 percent for ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in June this year Turkish producers' foreign sales price index (PPI)* in general increased by 0.53 percent from May and was up 12.17 percent year on year, ...
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St. Louis, Missouri-based Arch Coal announced Monday that it has idled its Cumberland River Coal Company complex as a result of weak coal prices in the market. The facility, located on the Virginia-Kentucky border, is comprised of two ...
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Australia's Antidumping Commission has announced that it has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty investigation regarding the imports of certain hollow structural sections from Thailand. The application lodged by Australia-based Austube ...
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The number of jobs in Brazil’s civil construction segment increased 0.94 percent in the first half of 2014, Sao Paulo state union SindusCon-SP said on Monday. According to the union, Brazil’s job balance was positive at 32,700 ...
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Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has announced that the US Department of Commerce (US DOC) has announced the final determinations in the antidumping (AD) duty investigations of imports of certain oil country tubular ...
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Russian coal mining company Kuzbassrazrezugol has announced that in the first half this year it produced 21.4 million mt of coal, down 1.9 percent year on year. Meanwhile, in the given period, the company significantly improved coal ...
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Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has stated that its Avdiivka Coke subsidiary has been hit by artillery as a result of armed hostilities. Several shells hit the company's core production shops. The storage facility for ...
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