According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in January this year the country's manufacturing output rose by 3.9 percent compared to the same month of 2012, while the seasonally adjusted manufacturing production is ...
Tags: iron output, steel output, steel
Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC), the world's second biggest steel producer, has announced the outlines of its mid-term management plan. Accordingly, the company plans to streamline its operations given that ...
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According to the latest 'Bi-Monthly Stainless Steel Briefing March 2013' report issued by Germany-based service centre Damstahl, in 2012 European stainless crude steel production amounted to 7.4 million mt, falling two percent compared to ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In January this year, Japan's hot rolled plate and sheet shipments increased by 5.75 percent compared to December 2012 and it were down 1.6 percent on year-on-year basis, amounting to 891,712 metric tons. 68.5 percent of shipments were made ...
Tags: HR Steel, Steel Strip Output, Steel Output
Reportedly followed with the price increase announcement by Usiminas, the largest steel mills in Brazil accounting for 28% of total steel output in Brazil, that their steel prices would also increase by 6%~ 8% in March. The Brazilian ...
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In the January-February period of the current year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 9.9 percent year on year, with this growth rate down 0.4 percentage points compared to that observed in December last year, as ...
Tags: Added-Value Industry, steel output, electrical equipment
In February this year, Germany's crude steel output amounted to 3.447 million metric tons, decreasing 3.7 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, according to the information provided by the German steel federation ...
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In the January-February period of the current year, Ukraine-based Azovstal, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, saw a 2.1 percent increase in its crude steel production to 742,000 mt, ...
Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that in January-February this year its Hebei-based subsidiary Handan Iron and Steel Co. (Hansteel) produced over 58,000 mt of line pipe steel. In particular, ...
Tags: Pipe Steel, Handan Steel, Metallurgy
The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) has stated that in late February (Feb. 21-28) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.7323 million mt, up 0.8 ...
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According to data, the 7 major stainless steel producers in Japan produced 312,856 tons of crudes stainless steel in January, rising by 15.5% from a month ago. In January, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) Yawata Works ...
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On March 5, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in February this year it produced 775,500 mt of pig iron, down 10.58 percent, 818,100 mt of crude steel, down 8.26 percent, and ...
Spain-based stainless steelmaker Acerinox posted a net loss of €18.33 million for 2012, slumping from a net profit of €73.73 million for 2011. In 2012, Acerinox realized sales revenues of €4.55 billion, down by 2.5% year ...
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In the January-February period of the current year, Ukrainian companies produced 215,500 mt of steel pipes, down 43 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the figures issued by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers. In ...
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As of March 1, inventory of the main finished steel products (plate, hot rolled coil (HRC), cold rolled coil (CRC), rebar and wire rod) in the major steel markets in China totaled 21.751 million mt, up 1.367 million mt week on week and ...
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