Finland-based steel producer Ruukki has announced that it now offers high strength and wear-resistant special steels in tubes and hollow section form. The company said that for years it has already been providing equipment manufacturers ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) has announced its production and sales data for the first quarter of the current year. According to the company statement, NLMK's crude steel output in the first quarter increased to 3.692 million ...
Tags: Finished Steel Output, Mineral
During Nucor Corporation's Q1 2013 conference call Thursday, President and CEO John Ferriola noted that the flat rolled steel market is poised for a difficult year. Ferriola said that the "amount of overcapacity is phenomenal right now," ...
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According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), in the first quarter of this year Brazil's crude steel output fell 4.3 percent year on year to 8.35 million metric tons. In the given quarter, Brazilian rolled steel output decreased by 1.3 ...
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On April 18, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in early April (Apr. 1-10) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.6973 million mt, up ...
Tags: Crude Steel Output, Mineral
In March this year, French crude steel production amounted to 1.337 million mt, down by 9.6 percent year on year, constituting the 10th successive month of decline on year-on-year basis, according to the latest data released by the French ...
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Global steel use is expected to increase by 2.9% to 1.5bn tonnes during 2013, following a growth of 1.2% in 2012, according to the latest World Steel Association (worldsteel) estimates. The association’s Short Range Outlook (SRO) ...
Tags: Refractory Mineral, steel demand, steel
According to the latest data released by the Swedish Steel Producers' Association (Jernkontoret), in March this year Swedish crude steel production amounted to 391,500 metric tons, decreasing by 13.2 percent year on year and up 15.55 ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to the data released by Argentina's chamber of steel, in the first quarter of this year Argentina's crude steel production totaled 1.1 million metric tons, decreasing 17.5 percent year on year. In March this year, Argentina's ...
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Global steelmaking and mining giant Evraz Group S.A. has announced that its crude steel output in the first quarter of the current year increased by 11 percent quarter on quarter to 4.068 million mt mainly due to the absence of overhauls ...
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Taranto-based Italian steel producer Ilva is progressively restarting its finished steel production operations following recent favorable court decisions, having almost completely shut down its finished steel operations in late 2012. ...
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In March this year, Japanese crude steel production increased by 13.5 percent compared to the previous month, while it rose by 1.3 percent year on year, totaling 9.4 million mt, according to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel ...
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In February of the current year, Japan's seasonally adjusted industrial production increased 0.6 percent from the previous month, while the original index indicated a decrease of 10.5 percent compared to the same month last year. ...
Tags: Iron and Steel Output, Mineral
As of April 15, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 70.53 million mt, indicating a decrease of 2.45 million mt or 3.36 percent on week-on-week basis, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of April 15, the ...
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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that US raw steel production rose 1.2 percent in the week ending April 13, following a 2.1 percent jump the previous week, as well as increases in the two prior weeks. Total raw ...
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