India-based global steelmaker Tata Steel has announced that it has commissioned a new heat treatment plant at its Hayange plant in the Lorraine region of France, which will produce train tracks capable of lasting up to three times longer ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Russian pipe maker United Metallurgical Co (OMK) is planning to buy a spring steel mill, Chusovoy Steel Works (ChMZ). OMK hopes to complete the acquisition before the end of the year. Russia's federal anti-monopoly service (FAS) has ...
Tags: pig iron, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
The global glass market is expected to be the largest consumer and driver of soda ash business to 2018 and beyond. Global soda ash demand is expected to increase from around 55m tpa today to more than 65m tpa by 2018, while the capacity ...
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In the first nine months of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 880.34 million mt, rising by 5.3 percent compared to the same period of 2012, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for approximately ...
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The groundbreaking ceremony for the iron-making plant of Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron and Steel Co. has been held in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, as announced by Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel (Baosteel) on October 21. The ceremony marks the ...
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Tata Steel has announced that it will supply rail track and steel sleeper plate to Network Rail, UK's railway network, for at least five years. Accordingly, Network Rail will source more than 95 percent of its rail from Tata Steel until ...
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Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced its production results for the first quarter ended September 30, 2013. BHP Billiton expects a five million mt increase in the full financial year guidance for its Western Australia iron ore ...
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According to the preliminary data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 82 percent of total world DRI production in 2012 amounted ...
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On October 21, the first electronic trading center for renewable resources (mainly steel scrap) in the southwest of China officially began trading in Chongqing, as announced by local media sources. The total value of trading activity on the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, renewable resources, steel scrap
According to the latest 'Stainless Steel Report October 2013' issued by Germany-based service center Damstahl, in the first seven months of the current year European stainless crude steel production declined five percent year on year to 4.4 ...
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In September this year, Italian crude steel output decreased by 10.4 percent year on year to 2.130 million metric tons, according to the figures released by Italian steel producers' association Federacciai. September is the 18th month in a ...
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On October 22, Sichuan Province-based Chinese state-owned steel producer Panzhihua Iron and Steel (Pangang Group) announced that in the current year up to October 15 its vanadium steel plant subsidiary, Pangang Vanadium Steel Co., produced ...
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In August this year, Turkey's steel scrap import volume declined by 15.57 percent year on year to 1,468,550 metric tons, down 16 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute ...
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According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the third quarter of the current year Turkey's building construction cost index increased 2.3 percent quarter on quarter and was up 6.4 percent compared to ...
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In the January-September period this year, Ukraine's ferroalloy production decreased by 22.4 percent compared to the same period last year to 623,500 mt, according to the Association of Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers (UkrFA). In the given ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Ferroalloy