In the last session of the SteelOrbis Spring 2013 Conference & 68th IREPAS Meeting held on March 3-5 in Doha, suppliers and producers of long steel products and billet, as well as traders and raw material suppliers shared the conclusions ...
Tags: rebar, wire, raw material
Reportedly, most of the Taiwanese steel pipe makers released its March price policy on March 1st. It’s learned that the steel pipe producers hiked the prices substantially by NT$1,000~NT$1,250/ton averagely for March in order to ...
Tags: steel pipe, Taiwan, steel market
Because of the slumping nickel prices at LME, the major stainless steel producers in Taiwan including Yieh United Steel Corp. (Yusco), Tang Eng and Walsin Lihwa all announced to keep the price flat for March. However, the Taiwanese ...
As of March 1, inventory of the main finished steel products (plate, hot rolled coil (HRC), cold rolled coil (CRC), rebar and wire rod) in the major steel markets in China totaled 21.751 million mt, up 1.367 million mt week on week and ...
Tags: finished steel inventory, steel inventory, finished steel
Egypt's largest steelmaker Ezz Steel has announced its financial results for the first nine months ended on September 30, 2012. Accordingly, in the first nine months of 2012 Ezz Steel registered a net loss of EGP 46 million ($6.82 ...
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Reportedly, GrafTech International, a world leader in graphite material, indicates the global steel market demand is likely to improve in 2013. However, the global financial problem and economic downturn still remain uncertainty this ...
United Bank of Switzerland (UBS) hans announced its China steel market analysis report recently; according to its report, UBS said the current market demand in China has stayed normal but mills' capacity utilization have still stayed at the ...
Tags: Steel Industry, Steel, Steel Industry Profit, steel market
Asian steel markets keep soaring as the import prices of hot rolled coil in South East Asia have hiked to US$670~690/ton in early February, up by nearly US$70/ton from the beginning of 2013 due to price up in Iron ore and production cut by ...
The United States market presents dull that the ex-work price of hot rolled coil in US has dropped by US$10/short ton to about US$610~630/short ton due to slow demand. On the other hand, the ex-work price of A36 medium heavy plate has ...
Tags: hot rolled coil, US, Steel Market
The prices of carbon steel medium-heavy plate in South Europe keep surging gradually by local mills owing to booming global steel market. So far, the ex-work price in Italy is around US$690/mt. The price of imported slab in Europe ...
South Korea-based steelmaker POSCO has announced that it has won an order for the supply of 88,000 mt of 11 types of thick steel plate for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is one of the world`s largest oil ...
The Germany-based service center Damstahl reported that the European crude stainless steel output totaled 7 million tons in the first 11 months of 2012, decreasing by 1% year on year. Meanwhile, Damstahl predicted that the European ...
Tags: stainless steel production, stainless steel, steel production
In the current longtime severe steel market situation, Baosteel Co.,Ltd. taps internal potential and further promote cost reduction and efficiency enhancement work with technical progress. Recently, it is known from Baosteel Co.,Ltd. ...
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Driven by the stable nickel prices of over US$18, 300/ton, the Taiwanese stainless steel prices are expected to go up further this week. It’s known that the Taiwanese stainless steel mills will issue the new price next week and ...
Tags: Stable nickel price, stainless steel market, steel market
According to the customs statistics provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), Turkey imported 950,490 mt of slab in 2012, more than sextuple compared to the previous year. In 2012, Turkey's slab imports hit the highest level ...
Tags: slab imports, Steel Producer, Steel