Indian steelmaker JSW Steel has announced that it has acquired a 26 percent stake in Punjab-based Vallabh Tinplate Pvt Ltd (VTPL), fulfilling the customary closing conditions and third party consents. As SteelOrbis previously reported, in ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Bhaskar Dutta, CEO of the Omani steel and pipe manufacturer Al Jazeera Steel, stated that rebar consumption in the GCC countries is expected to rise to 12 ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Franc Cardona, the marketing and international affairs director of Spanish steel producer CELSA Group, stated that margins in the long steel product trade ...
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The SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting has started in Barcelona today, March 31, with the participation of over 250 executives, including 101 representatives from 47 steel producer companies and 44 representatives from ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Nam?k Ekinci, chairman of the Turkish Steel Exporters' Association, stated that the antidumping duty investigation launched by the US against Turkish ...
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German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will supply a semi-continuous billet mill for Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, the new integrated steel plant Taiwan-based Formosa Group is building in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam. The produced billets ...
Tags: Formosa Ha, Billet Mill, plantmaker
In the January-February period of the current year, Russian exports of semi-finished steel products decreased by 9.5 percent year on year to 2.03 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In February ...
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Turkish steel pipe producer Borusan Mannesmann has told SteelOrbis that the company's US oil country tubular goods (OCTG) investment in Houston, Texas remains on track within the projected schedule, with the threading facility already being ...
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The Indian government has been caught between the conflicting demands of iron ore miners and steel producers regarding the recently imposed five percent export duty on iron ore pellets, a government official said on Wednesday, March 5. As ...
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On February 28, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in the current year it expects to produce 12 million mt of pig iron, 12.45 million mt of crude steel and 11.66 million mt of ...
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Following a review of the current situation and delays in commencement of production, Wales-based hot rolled coil (HRC) producer MIR Steel (formerly known as Alpha Steel) has announced that some of the workforce have been placed on ...
On February 17, Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group announced that its subsidiary Hebei Iron and Steel Group Mining Co. (Hebei Steel Mining) produced 694,600 mt of iron ore concentrate in January this year, ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Concentrate
In January this year,Italian domestic scrap prices generally remained stable,but towards the end of the month price decreases started to be seen in line with the general price trend in Europe,as Maurizio Calcinoni,president of Italian scrap ...
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Shanxi Province-based Chinese steelmaker Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group Co. (TISCO) has announced that in 2014 it plans to produce 11.20 million mt of crude steel including 4 million mt of stainless steel, while it is targeting an operating ...
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India-based Mahindra Group has announced that Mahindra Intertrade, Mahindra Auto Steel Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture between its subsidiary Mahindra Intertrade, Taiwan's China Steel Global Trading Corporation and Singapore-based Mitsui & Co. ...