In February this year, Japan's industrial production decreased by 2.3 percent from January and rose by 6.9 percent from February 2013, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report published by Japan's Ministry of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel, crude steel, Iron
The ferrous scrap market in eastern China remained quiet this week, keeping in step with the rebar market's trend. Demand from steelmakers has not fully recovered as the finished steel markets have remained sluggish. Media reports that ...
Chinese steelmaker Chongqing Iron and Steel Co. (Chongqing Steel), a subsidiary of Chongqing Iron and Steel (Group) Co., has issued its financial results for 2013, posting an operating revenue of RMB 17.563 billion ($2.87 billion), down ...
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On March 28, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in mid-March (Mar. 11-20) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.6917 million mt, up ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Iron, Steel
On March 27, Anhui Province-based Chinese steelmaker Maanshan Iron & Steel Co. (Masteel) issued its financial results for 2013, announcing an operating revenue of RMB 73.85 billion ($12.07 billion), while it achieved a net profit of RMB 157 ...
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Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that the US imported a total of 3,250,000 net tons (nt) of steel in February, including 2,240,000 nt of finished steel (up 1.4 percent ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, finished steel
The ferrous scrap market was stable in eastern China this week, in tandem with the finished steel and rebar futures markets, market participants said Friday. Most traders were bearish, expecting further price cuts in the short term. ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Rebar, finished steel
India's finished steel consumption totaled 67.25 million mt in the first 11 months of the current Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2013), with a 0.7 percent year-on-year increase, according to provisional estimates released by the Joint ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Steel Production, Mineral
Alacero,the Latin American steel association,participated at the recent Economics Committee meeting of the World Steel Association(worldsteel)held in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates(UAE).During the meeting the Economics Committee ...
Tags: Steel Usage, Steel, Mineral
In the January-February period of the current year,the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih,Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal,totaled 915,100 mt,down 12.6 percent year on year,as announced by the ...
Tags: Arcelormittal Kryvyi, Crude Steel, Steel
In the January-February period of the current year, Russian exports of semi-finished steel products decreased by 9.5 percent year on year to 2.03 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In February ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
East China's ferrous scrap prices fell sharply this week amid weaker raw material, finished steel and steel futures markets in the first-half of the week. Platts assessed heavy scrap over 6 mm at Yuan 2,320/mt ($377/mt) on a delivered ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Raw Material, Steel Markets
Chinese steelmakers cut their scrap purchase prices steadily this week, following the downward trend in futures and steelmaking raw materials markets, led by Shagang Group, the country's largest scrap consumer in eastern China's Jiangsu ...
Tags: Steelmakers, Iron Ore, raw materials
In the January-February period this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.6 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on March 13. In January-February this year, of the ...
Tags: industrial output, automobile, Energy
As of March 10, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 103.21 million mt, indicating an increase of 2.17 million mt or 2.15 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, the ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Chinese ports, imported steel