West Chester, Ohio-based AK Steel said Friday that members of the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1865 union have ratified an 18-month labor agreement covering more than 800 hourly production and maintenance steel operations employees at ...
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Turkey's largest integrated steelmaker Erdemir announced that its chairman and deputy managing director Fatih Tar has resigned. Erdemir deputy chairman Nihat Karadag will become deputy managing director. Nihat Karadag previously held the ...
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Germany-based steelmaker Salzgitter Group has announced that in the first half of the current year its performance was largely determined by the structural crisis in the European steel industry. Severe competition resulting from scarce ...
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The Mexican Ministry of Economy (SE) published the declaration of force regarding six Mexican standards relating to the steel industry. They have been prepared, approved and published as Mexican standard projects under the responsibility ...
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In afternoon, July 30th, publication meeting of Baosteel Group 2012 corporate social responsibility report, and global initial launch ceremony of 3rd generation high-strength automotive steel were held in Baosteel Tower. The event took you ...
In July this year, Germany's crude steel output amounted to 3.4 million metric tons, decreasing 5.4 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, according to the information provided by the German steel federation ...
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Germany-based steelmaker Salzgitter Group has announced a further downward revision of its guidance for 2013 given the persisting structural crisis in the European steel industry. The company said that the direct and indirect consequences ...
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Brazilian government enacted a new law by the end of July, the country's anti-dumping has been modified to make it more consistent with the current environment and more transparent. The new regulation replaces the 1995 publication of the ...
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India's Mines Ministry is seeking to reduce the country's iron ore export tax from the current 30 percent amid the sharp decline in iron ore exports, according to media reports. The Indian government increased the iron ore export tax from ...
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India's steel ministry has stated that reducing the country's iron ore export tax from the current 30 percent might negatively affect the raw material security of the domestic steel industry and, contrary to the government's view, would ...
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Mexico’s apparent domestic consumption of liquid steel amounted to 9.12 million tons in the first five months of this year, decreasing by 8.8% year on year, according to data released by the National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry ...
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It’s reported that Indian steel giant Tata Steel is interested in iron ore assets of one UK’s largest steel trading company, Stemcor. The company asks for banks’ rescue of more than US$1 billion loans as it was ...
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It’s reported that Korean steel giant Posco has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Cameroon government to develop steel industry jointly. Cameroon owns 5 billion tons of iron ore deposits and is ideally to supply ...
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Turkish plantmaker CVS Makina has announced that the six-strand high-speed billet caster of Russia-based AEMZ Company has produced its first billets. The billet caster was supplied by CVS Makina within the scope of AEMZ Company's turnkey ...
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Zhanjiang Iron & Steel 2150mm CC equipment contract signing ceremony was initiated on July. 12th in Zhanjiang. Auer, President of Siemens VAI, Zhao Zhouli, Deputy Manager of Baosteel Group Co., Ltd., President of Zhanjiang Iron & Steel, ...