Russian steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that it has opened a representative office in Shanghai to establish and strengthen relationships with companies in the world's second-largest economy. The new ...
Tags: MMK, Representative Office, Metallurgy, Mineral
Swedish speciality steel producer SSAB has announced that the European Commision has approved its merger with Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki. The offer period for the merger is scheduled to expire on July 22. The Commission had concerns ...
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Long steel producer Siderurgica Norte Brasil (Sinobras) has received a license to expand its mill in the city of Maraba, in the state of Para, Brazil, the company announced on Thursday. The state’s governor delivered the document to ...
Tags: Sinobras, expand, Metallurgy, Mineral
Sao Paulo, Brazil-based iron ore mining company and flat rolled steel producer Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) has announced its financial results for the second quarter this year. In the second quarter, CSN registered a net profit ...
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will supply a 150-ton, twin RH vacuum degassing plant for the Mexican steel producer Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA). The new plant will be installed at AHMSA's ...
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Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), plans to increase its production in the current month. In particular, in July DMKD plans to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron, Steel
India's finished steel consumption totaled 12.62 million mt in the first two months of the current Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2014), with a 0.5 percent year-on-year increase, according to provisional estimates released by the ...
The Brazil Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) told local media on Monday that the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil’s largest steel producer, has been declining its industrial production. “What we’ve seen, ...
Tags: Metals, Automotive Industry
Turkey-based steel producer MMK Metalurji, a subsidiary of Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), has announced that hot dip galvanized steel sheet sales to the Turkish domestic market increased by 66 percent, while ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, Coated Steel
Warren Steel is asking Ohio regulators for an electricity rate discount the company says could allow it to attract "strategic partnerships" and reopen its Warren steelmaking plant that was shut in late March. Warren is the latest in a ...
Indian state-owned steel producer Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced its financial results for the financial year 2013-14 ended March 31. Accordingly, SAIL's net profit increased by 20.36 percent to INR 26.16 billion ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it will revamp one of the converters at the Salzgitter steelworks of German-based steel producer Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH. Through the modernization works, the specific volume of converter ...
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Ukrainian miner and steel producer Metinvest Group has stated that it will invest around $1 billion in revamping of blast furnace # 4 at its subsidiary Azovstal Iron and Steel Works. On 15 May, the first upgrading and revamping activities ...
Tags: Blast Furnace, Azovstal
Turkey-based steel producer Karabük Demir Celik (Kardemir) has announced that it has signed a credit facility with Germany's KfW IPEX Bank to finance the foreign expenses regarding its railway wheel mill investment. Repayments will ...
Tags: Railway Wheel, steel producer
Sweden-based special steel producer Ovako has announced that the commercial court of Nanterre in France has made a decision regarding the bid concerning the assets of French engineering steel producer Ascometal in favor of the French ...
Tags: Bankrupt Ascometal