According to the Economic and Steel Market Outlook 2014-2015/Q2 2014 Report from the Economic Committee of the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in the first two months of 2014 total EU steel exports fell almost six percent year on ...
Tags: Steel Exports, flat products
In March this year, Moldavian Metallurgical Works (MMZ), a steelmaker based in the Transnistrian region of Moldova, produced 31,903 mt of crude steel and 35,033 mt of rolled products, including 21,041 mt of reinforcing bars and 13,992 mt of ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
On April 15, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (Apr. 7-13) the overall average finished steel price in China rose by 0.6 percent compared to the previous week. In the given week, the average prices of ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Finished Steel, Steel
German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it has received an order from Turkey-based steel producer Karabük Demir Celik (Kardemir) for the supply of a special bar quality (SBQ) rolling mill for the production of surface-quenched ...
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Australia's Antidumping Commission has announced that it has initiated an antidumping (AD) investigation against imports of hot rolled wire rod in coils with a diameter of less than 14 mm from Indonesia, Taiwan and Turkey, upon the ...
Tampa, Florida-based Gerdau Long Steel North America announced this week that Guilherme Gerdau Johannpeter, president of Gerdau Long Steel North America, is being promoted to executive vice president and will join Gerdau's Executive ...
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In March of the current year, Turkey's steel exports declined by 21.5 percent to 1.59 million mt, while the value of these exports decreased by 16.5 percent to $1.32 billion, both on year-on-year basis, according to the Turkish Steel ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
In the January-February period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 130.8 million mt, up 1.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The growth rate in question ...
Tags: Metallurgical Coke, crude steel, steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
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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On March 27, Anhui Province-based Chinese steelmaker Maanshan Iron & Steel Co. (Masteel) issued its financial results for 2013, announcing an operating revenue of RMB 73.85 billion ($12.07 billion), while it achieved a net profit of RMB 157 ...
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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 ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it has received an order from South Korean steelmaker Hyundai Steel for a continuous bloom casting machine, a large bar rolling mill and a small bar and wire rod mill ...
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in January this year Turkey's wire rod exports decreased by 3.79 percent year on year to 115,908 metric tons, up 29.09 percent month on month. The revenue from ...
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Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) launched trading of hot rolled coil (HRC) futures contracts today, March 21, offering another hedging tool for steelmakers amid growing price volatility. The most traded HRC contract for October delivery ...
Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has stated that its metallurgical plants manufactured 33 new products in 2013. The economic benefit from these new products was $42.5 million. Several Metinvest enterprises - Yenakiieve ...
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