Based on preliminary US Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that the US imported a total of 2,584,000 net tons (nt) of steel in November, including 1,906,000 nt of finished steel (down 16.7 ...
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Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) announced the successful start-up of production at our direct reduced iron (DRI) facility in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Production of DRI began on Tuesday, December 24, and has continued at planned ramp-up ...
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According to data released by the US Census Bureau, the country’s steel imports drop in November after hitting the highest level of 2013 in October. The imports of carbon, alloy and stainless steel totaled 2.34 million tons in ...
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Shandong Province-based Chinese port company Rizhao Port Co. plans to launch a joint venture company with local Chinese steelmaker Shandong Iron and Steel Group Co. and Shandong State-owned Assets Investment Holdings Co., with a registered ...
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In November this year, Japan's industrial production increased by 0.1 percent from the previous month and rose by five percent from November in the previous year, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report ...
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Jiangsu province-based Chinese steelmaker Valin-Xigang Special Steel Co., a subsidiary of Hunan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Valin Group, has announced that its production and sales target of finished steel for 2014 is 800,000 mt, ...
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Russkaya Stal (Russian Steel), a non-prot association of Russian domestic steelmakers, has reported that its main member enterprises produced 4.4 million metric tons of finished steel in November this year, down 4.5 percent from October and ...
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China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced that during last week (Dec.16- 22) the overall average finished steel price in China maintained upward trend for the fifth consecutive week. In the given week, average prices of 10 mm ...
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The transaction prices of China Steel Corp. (CSC)’s Al-killed finished steel wires have dropped further to NT$24,000/ton in the Taiwanese market recently, falling by NT$500~NT$700/ton. Industry sources said that the prices might ...
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India's finished steel consumption totaled 48.29 million mt in the first eight months of the current Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2013), with just a 0.4 percent year-on-year increase, according to provisional estimates released by ...
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In the January-November period this year, finished steel apparent use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 57 million metric tons, one percent higher compared with the same period in 2012, according to Alacero, the Latin American ...
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As of December 16, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 83.844 million mt, indicating a decrease of 975,000 mt or 1.15 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency . As of the same date, the ...
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On December 17, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in early December (Dec. 1-10) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.6951 million ...
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In the first 11 months of the current year, the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 5.866 million mt, down 0.05 percent year on year, as announced by the ...
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In the January-November period of the current year, Russian exports of semi-finished steel products decreased by 11.5 percent year on year to 12 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In November alone, ...
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