In September this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector was at 43.6 percent, down by 4.8 percentage points as compared to August, still below the 50 percent threshold and falling to the lowest level of the ...
Tags: Steel Sector, PMI
In the January-August period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 550.10 million mt, up 2.6 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The growth rate in question ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Crude Steel, Steel
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that the US imported a total of 3,667,000 net tons nt of steel in August, including 2,768,000 net tons (nt) of finished steel (down 5.0 ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Iron, Steel
According to the data released by Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in August this year Ukraine exported $309.5 million worth of semi-finished steel products, while imports of these products totaled $6.08 million in ...
Tags: Semi-Finished Steel
As of September 15, inventory of iron ore at 33 major Chinese ports amounted to 109.65 million mt, up 590,000 mt or 0.54 percent compared to the inventory level recorded on September 8, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy
In August this year, China's crude steel output amounted to 68.91 million mt, up 1.0 percent year on year, with this growth rate 0.5 percentage points lower than that recorded in July. During the given month, the average daily crude steel ...
Tags: Crude Steel, finished steel
In August this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 6.9 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on September 13, with this growth rate 2.1 percentage points lower than ...
Tags: value-added industrial output, NBS, industrial sectors
Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that in the January-August period of the current year its subsidiary Tangshan Iron and Steel Co. (Tangsteel) exported 2.7003 million mt of finished steel, up ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Iron, Steel
In August, China's finished steel output increased slightly, while domestic finished steel prices continued to soften in the given month due to slower economic growth, with the finished steel price decreases contributing to significant ...
Tags: finished steel, Iron Ore
Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the January-July period of this year Latin America's finished steel imports from China increased by 60 percent year on year to 4.7 million metric tons. Latin America ...
Tags: Finished Steel, flat steel
On September 10, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (September 1-7) the overall average finished steel price in China was down 0.3 percent week on week. In the given week, the average prices of high-speed ...
Tags: finished steel, nickel, non-ferrous metals
China exported 7.76 million mt of finished steel in August this year, down 3.72 percent month on month, while it exported 56.83 million mt of finished steel in the January-August period of the year, rising by 35.4 percent year on year, ...
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China exported 7.76 million mt of finished steel in August this year, down 3.72 percent month on month, while it exported 56.83 million mt of finished steel in the January-August period of the year, rising by 35.4 percent year on year, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Finished Steel
South Africa's primary carbon and alloy steel product imports (excluding semi-finished steel, stainless steel and drawn wire) amounted to 61,137 mt in July this year, decreasing by 40.9 percent compared to June and down 38.8 percent from ...
Tags: Carbon, Alloy Steel
In the January-August period this year, Ukrainian metallurgical company Dneprospetsstal (DSS) saw a 2.1 percent yeat-on-year decrease in its crude steel production to 189,000 mt. The company's output of finished steel in the same period ...
Tags: Crude Steel, finished steel