According to the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in July this year the crude steel output of 64 countries surveyed across the globe reached 132.3 million mt, increasing by 2.7 percent on year-on-year basis and up 3.9 percent compared ...
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Global steel producer ArcelorMittal has had to shut down a blast furnace on August 8 at its Indiana Harbor steel plant in the US due to a technical failure, according to a Reuters report. ArcelorMittal said that it is not likely to have any ...
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Ukrainian steelmaker Zaporizhstal, a part of Ukrainian mining and steel group Metinvest, has stated that it has suspended its supplies to Russia due to recent problems experienced at Russian customs. Russia's Customs Service has tightened ...
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On August 20, Chinese steel producer Shougang Tonghua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Shougang Steel Group and the largest integrated steelmaker in China's Jilin Province, signed a strategic agreement with the domestic energy ...
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It was usually quiet Friday morning at the Baoshan Cement Co., Ltd. factory in east China's Jiangxi Province. The factory's production lines were shut down after it was put on a list of companies designated by the Ministry of Industry and ...
It’s reported that Taigang Stainless, the largest stainless steel producer in China announced to hike its export prices for austenitic stainless steel coil by RMB180/ton, driven by higher domestic prices and improved demand. ...
On August 16, Sichuan Province-based Chinese state-owned steel producer Panzhihua Iron and Steel (Pangang Group) announced that in the current month up to and including August 14 its subsidiary Chengdu Plates Co. received orders for over ...
India-based steel producer Essar Steel has announced the launch of high quality, color-coated products, specially developed for the market in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala. These specialized steel products will largely be used in ...
The opening ceremony of POSCO Assan TST, the Turkey-based stainless steel producing joint venture of South Korean steelmaker POSCO, Turkey's Kibar Holding and Daewoo International has been held on August 15. Posco Assan TST, which will ...
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On August 11, construction work started on the continuous casting project and hot rolling project at Chinese steel producer Baosteel's Zhanjiang steel base, as announced by Beijing-based state-owned China Metallurgical Group Co. (MCC) on ...
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India's finished steel consumption totaled 24.1 million mt in the first four months of the current Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2013), almost stable compared to the level recorded in the same period last year, with just a 0.2 ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that in July this year it put a continuous bloom caster into operation at Chinese steel producer Changzhou Zhongtian Iron & Steel (Zenith Steel). The continuous bloom caster ...
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Indian state-owned steel producer Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced its financial results for the first quarter ended June 30 of the financial year 2013-14. Accordingly, in the first quarter of FY 2012-13 SAIL's net ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that Metal Ravne, part of Slovenian Steel Group (SIJ), has placed an order with SMS INNSE S.p.A., Italy, and SMS Mevac GmbH, Germany, for the planning, delivery and erection of a secondary ...
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The stainless steel producer Aperam released its financial result for the second quarter and the first half of 2013. Aperam posted a net loss of US$11 million for the second quarter of this year, in comparison of US$28 million in the ...
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