According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), the country's crude steel production in the first half of 2013 was 17 million metric tons, 2.2 percent lower than in the first half of 2012. In the first six months this year, Brazilian rolled ...
Tags: Steel Exports, Mineral
Korean steel giant Posco has given up to build a 6 million tons per year integrated steel mill in the south India and the company already stopped any work of this project. Posco mentioned delays in gaining approvals to mine and persisting ...
According to data released by the National Institute of Statistics (Inei) and the country’s two steelmakers, Aceros Arequipa and Gerdau's Siderperu, Peru’s rebar output totaled 89,580 tons in April, rising by 12% from a79, 956 ...
Tags: Rebar, Construction&Decoration, April
It’s reported that Indian hot rolled coil (HRC) market has remained weak recently. In fact, the Indian steelmakers have sought to raise HRC prices in spite of depreciated Rupees. However, the price rise was unfavorable to local ...
Tags: HRC Market, Mineral
It’s reported that Korean Hyundai Steel planned to raise its H beam prices by KRW10, 000/ton in July as its production decreased due to power limit in summer and annual maintenance. It’s learned that Hyundai Steel ...
Tags: H Beam Prices, Mineral
As of July 1, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 75.28 million mt, indicating an increase of 100,000 mt or 0.13 percent compared to June 24, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. Iron ore inventory at ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Chinese Ports
As of June 24, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 75.18 million mt, indicating an increase of 520,000 mt or 0.7 percent compared to June 17, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, the ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Chinese ports, Mineral
According to data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF), Japan's shipments of cold rolled (CR) sheets and strips totaled488, 885 tons in April, falling by 18.4% from a month ago and decreasing by 5.3% year on year. Among ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
It's reported that the Japanese steelmakers have hiked prices for steel long products substantially since this year in order to reflect high input costs. Also, the stable demand from construction industry has supported the Japanese ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
It's reported that the US steelmakers announced to raise prices of steel flat products further recently. ArcelorMittal North America announced to hike its prices for spot hot rolled coils (HRC) to US$694/ton and increase its prices for spot ...
Tags: Construction, steel, Steel Flat
According to the data from the World Steel Association, Korea's largest steelmaker Posco ranked as world's fifth largest crude steelmaker in 2012, down from the fourth in 2011. ArcelorMittal remains the top one of crude steelmaker as it ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel, Crude Steel
It’s reported that Chung Hung Steel, one of the major carbon steelmakers in Taiwan announced to cut its export prices for hot rolled coils (HRC) and cold rolled coils (CRC) by US$30~US$40/ton for July shipments, affected by weak steel ...
The Japanese steelmakers are going to start price negotiation for electric galvanized steel sheets with Asian buyers for July next week. It’s said that the Japanese steelmakers planned to remain export prices for electric ...
Tags: Japanese, Steel, Construction&Decoration
Recently, the prices of cold rolled (CR) austenitic stainless steel products have continued falling. At present, the mainstream quotes are at US$2,450/ton CFR. It’s known that the prices of CR austenitic stainless steel products have ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest carbon steelmakers in Taiwan announced to cut its list prices for steel plates by NT$300~NT$1,200/ton for July and August. After the adjustment, the company’s list prices of steel plates for ...
Tags: CSC, Steel Plate