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The world's second biggest steelmaker Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced its financial results for the third quarter ending December 31 of the financial year 2012-13, posting a net profit of JPY 24.7 ...
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According to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat), in January of the current year Russia registered a 2.8 percent decrease in its rolled steel product output to 4.4 million mt, a 5.8 percent decrease in its crude steel output ...
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According to the latest ‘Stainless Steel Briefing February 2013' report issued by Germany-based service centre Damstahl, in the first 11 months of 2012 European stainless crude steel production amounted to 7 million mt, falling one ...
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According to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in March this yearUkraine's crude steel production will fall by an estimated 1.6 percent compared to January this year to 2.8 million mt. According to ...
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Turkish specialty steel producer Asil Celik has announced that it has ordered a continuous casting machine from the Swiss plantmaker SMS Concast. The new casting unit is expected to be commissioned in early 2015. The new continuous ...
On February 13, major Indian steelmaker JSW Steel (JSW) announced its financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months ended December 31 of the financial year 2012-13 and its operational results for January 2013. In the ...
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According to Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group, in January of the current year its subsidiary Chengde Steel’s vanadium steel plant produced 416,700 mt of crude steel and 10,199 mt of vanadium slag, ...
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Germany-based steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced its financial results for the first quarter ended December 31 of the financial year 2012-13. In the given quarter, ThyssenKrupp's net profit amounted to €29 million, decreasing by ...
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The government of Algeria has decided to increase its control of local steel producer ArcelorMittal Annaba which was purchased by ArcelorMittal in 2001, according to domestic media reports. The Algerian government will pay $200 million ...
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In January this year, Germany's crude steel output amounted to 3.6 million metric tons, increasing 17.65 percent from the previous month and up five percent compared to the same month of the previous year, according to the information ...
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The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) has stated that in late January (Jan. 21-31) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.604 million mt, down 0.53 ...
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Ukrainian steelmaker Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works (Alchevsk), a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), has announced that in February this year its plans to cut its crude steel production by five percent ...
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According to statistics released by the Stainless Steel Council of China Special Steel Enterprises Association (SSC), China’s crude stainless steel production amounted to 16.1 million tons in 2012, rising by 14% year on year. In 2012, ...
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On February 6, Jiangxi Province-based Chinese steelmaker Fangda Special Steel issued its financial results for 2012. Accordingly, in 2012 the company registered an operating revenue of RMB 13.355 billion ($2.1 billion), up 0.16 percent ...
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