Swiss-headquartered iron ore miner Ferrexpo, whose main interests are in Ukrainian iron ore assets, has announced its financial results for 2013. In the given period, Ferrexpo's net profit increased by 20.6 percent to $263.7 million ...
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that for the month of January 2014, US steel mills shipped 7,895,293 net tons, a 3.4 percent increase from the 7,632,629 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2013, and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel, Steel Mill
China's iron ore import prices are likely to come under pressure in March, as the expected increase in domestic steel output is unlikely to offset the impact of persistent iron ore oversupply in China, the China Iron & Steel Association ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Steel Demand
Several US ferrosilicon market participants believe the preliminary determination giving a 0% margin on imports of Russian ferrosilicon and a 27.27% margin for imports of Venezuelan material, announced Wednesday, could have a near-term ...
Tags: Ferrosilicon, Antidumping Finding
US raw steel production picked up 1.6% week on week as steelmaking in the Great Lakes bounced up 4.4%, American Iron and Steel Institute data released Tuesday showed. In the week ended March 1, US mills produced 1.861 million st of raw ...
Chinese steel mills' credit woes have further depressed domestic silicomanganese prices, market sources said Monday. Domestic silicomanganese prices were pegged by the sources at about Yuan 6,600/mt ($1,083/mt), about Yuan 200-300/mt ...
Tags: Steel Mills, Mineral
The US Department of Commerce (US DOC) has announced its preliminary decisions regarding the countervailing duty investigation against rebar imports from Turkey and Mexico, finding no subsidy in Turkish rebar imports. Accordingly, the ...
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Global crude steel production in January this year decreased by 0.4 percent year on year to 129.78 million metric tons, while a 0.5 percent increase was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association ...
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US raw steel production edged up last week, as the industry's capability utilization rose to 77%, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. The 77% capability utilization during the week ended Saturday, February 15, was up from ...
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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that for the month of December 2013, US steel mills shipped 7,632,629 net tons, a 0.4 percent increase from the 7,604,428 net tons shipped in the previous month, November 2013, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
China's drive to transform its economy, which includes reducing the role of energy-intensive industries and paring steel capacity, is driving up coal inventories at key ports as demand across a variety of sectors weakens. Inventories at ...
Russian steelmaker Severstal has stated that its subsidiary Karelsky Okatysh, a major iron ore production and processing plant in Russia, has launched production of new iron ore pellets with a higher iron ore content. Cherepovets Steel ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Steel, Metallurgy
US raw steel production climbed 1.9% last week on robust growth in Southern steel output, American Iron and Steel Institute data published Monday showed. In the week ended Saturday, US mills produced 1.839 million st, up 1.9% from the ...
Commission encourages Chinese steelmakers to boost global footprint Chinese steelmakers that have lost money because of volatile global iron ore prices should invest more in foreign mineral resources to gain greater pricing power, the ...
Tags: NDRC, Chalco, steelmaker, persist
According to the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in 2013 global crude steel output reached 1.61 billion mt, increasing by 3.5 percent on year-on-year basis. In December of the same year, world crude steel production for the 65 ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Mineral