In the first four months of the current year, Ukraine registered an 8.5 percent decrease in its finished steel product output to 8.983 million mt, an 8.8 percent decrease in its crude steel output to 10.087 million mt, and a 2.7 percent ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
Jiangsu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shagang Iron and Steel Co. has announced that it will issue its first set of short-term bonds in the current year on May 8, worth a total of RMB 2 billion ($326 million), for a term of 365 days. ...
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On May 5, the US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced its affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) from the People’s Republic of China (China), the ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending May 3, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,815,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 75.5 percent. Production was 1,835,000 net tons in the ...
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Canada-based Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation (Baffinland) has announced that it has received the final regulatory approval to begin the first phase of extraction of iron ore in the Mary River project. Baffinland, 50 percent owned by ...
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China's Jiuquan Iron & Steel has cut its high carbon ferrochrome purchase price by Yuan 100/mt ($16/mt) on the month to Yuan 6,500/mt (80 cents/lb), including 17% VAT, for May deliveries, industry sources said Monday. The drop was larger ...
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India's state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced that it registered a growth of 14 percent in finished steel product sales in April, amounting to 810,000 mt. In the given month, the company's finished ...
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Australia-based Aquila Resources Limited has announced that it has received a A$1.42 million takeover offer from Baosteel Resources Australia Pty Ltd (Baosteel) and Australian rail and logistics company Aurizon Operations Limited (Aurizon) ...
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In April this year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland increased by 1.13 percent compared to March and were up 33.89 percent year on year, totaling 34.82 million metric tons. According to the information released by Port ...
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Rates and sentiment on the iron ore freight market got a boost Friday after Bocimar International NV was heard taking at least six ships in the Atlantic over the May Day holiday in Asia, putting an end to the downward spiral in Capesize ...
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Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji's finished steel output decreased by 16 percent year on year to 149,000 mt in the first quarter this year. In the given ...
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Shanghai-based Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (Baosteel) has issued its financial report for the first quarter of the current year, announcing an operating revenue of RMB 46.748 billion ($7.63 billion), up 0.85 percent, ...
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According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in the first quarter of this year the value of Turkey's iron and steel imports decreased ...
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According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in March this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit decreased by 30.1 percent to $5.20 ...
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In March this year, Japan's industrial production increased by 0.3 percent from February and rose by seven percent from March 2013, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report published by Japan's Ministry of ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Production