In August this year, Germany's crude steel output decreased by 9.2 percent month on month to 3.13 million metric tons and decreasing by one percent compared to August 2013, according to the information provided by the German steel ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Metallurgy
Specialty chemicals group LANXESS is strengthening its production network in China to meet the high level of demand for iron oxide pigments and is adding a mixing and milling plant to the pigment plant already under construction in Ningbo. ...
Tags: Iron Oxide, Red Pigments
In the first eight months of the current year, Turkey's steel pipe exports increased by 2.16 percent year on year to 1.26 million metric tons, according to the statistics provided by the Turkish Steel Pipe Manufacturers Association (CEBID). ...
Tags: Steel Pipe
In July this year, Italian crude steel output decreased by 1.5 percent year on year to 2.075 million metric tons, while in the first seven months of the year the output figure amounted to 15.144 million mt, up 2.4 percent year on year, ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
Brazil's iron ore export volume amounted to 28.26 million mt in August this year, decreasing by 9.37 percent compared to July and down 9.31 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the information released by the Brazilian ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Iron Ore
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that for the month of July 2014, US steel mills shipped 8,492,744 net tons, a 2.4 percent increase from the 8,291,823 net tons shipped in the previous month, June 2014, and a 2.6 ...
Tags: Hot Rolled Sheet, Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
Brazilian miner and iron ore producer Vale has awarded ABB a $103 million contract for systems at a Vale's iron ore mine in northern Brazil. According to ABB, the deal is part of a project by Vale to expand its capacity. ABB's contract ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, iron ore
The Government of Benin has allotted a special credit to cotton farmers for cotton production, according to reports by Beninese Ministry for Microfinance. The Government of Benin has taken this step in order to increase the production of ...
Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the January-July period of this year Latin America's finished steel imports from China increased by 60 percent year on year to 4.7 million metric tons. Latin America ...
Tags: Finished Steel, flat steel
BASF announced the start-up of a new butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The plant has an annual production capacity of 155,000 metric tons. The plant in Antwerp is BASF’s second butadiene extraction ...
Tags: Butadiene, Extraction Plant
According to the American Institute for International Steel (AIIS), to just over 1 million net tons. While exports to Canada were virtually unchanged from June to July at 536,892 net tons, and the amount of steel sent to Mexico increased ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
According to a report Tuesday from the Lake Carriers' Association, for the second month in a row, shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes reached their highest level in six years.? The 7,242,492 tons loaded in August are the most since ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral
In July this year, Turkey's billet and bloom import volume decreased by 11.94 percent year on year to 233,879 metric tons, and declined by 13.1 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel Billet
Nickel prices climbed to the highest in nearly two months Thursday on the London Metal Exchange, rising 10% from mid-June to about $19,400 per ton over concerns that the Philippines may ban exports of the metal. A bill to bar mineral ore ...
In August this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 257,000 metric tons, decreasing by 4.22 percent from 268,321 metric tons in July and up 183.98 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the ...
Tags: Manganese Ore, Mineral