The Turkish Steel Producers' Association (TCUD) has said that the steel industry performance in 2014 will be dependent on the industry's competitiveness, the demand trend in the domestic market, the recovery in export markets, mainly in ...
Tags: Crude Steel Output, Mineral
Marubeni Corporation ("Marubeni"), jointly with Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc. ("Mitsubishi-Hitachi"), was awarded a contract by JSW Steel Limited, a steel company in the private sector in India, for the supply of a slab sizing ...
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India's finished steel consumption totaled 48.29 million mt in the first eight months of the current Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2013), with just a 0.4 percent year-on-year increase, according to provisional estimates released by ...
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International credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed Luxembourg-based global steel giant ArcelorMittal's rating at 'BB+', with the outlook being stable. Fitch stated that the credit rating affirmation and the stable outlook ...
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Chilean steel institute (ICHA) reports that the apparent steel consumption and domestic shipments in Chile dropped to total 2.05 and 1.02 million tons in the first nine months of 2013, down by 11% and 16% respectively compared to the same ...
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Wildcat Silver Corporation (TSX: WS) ("Wildcat") announces positive results from its pre-feasibility study for its Hermosa project located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The pre-feasibility study includes the contribution from the projects' ...
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The growth rate of China's steel demand will decline from 6.3 percent this year to 3.2 percent in 2014 in the wake of the country's economic transformation and the government's efforts to improve the environment. The nation's steel ...
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China's crude steel consumption for 2013 is estimated at 693 million tonnes and it is expected to grow 3.2 percent year on year to reach 715 million tonnes in 2014, an industry expert said on Friday. Given China's current production ...
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China's iron ore imports have been decelerating since 2011, and that trend is set to continue next year with estimated growth of 6.25 percent, said an industry expert on Friday. China will import 850 million metric tons of iron ore in ...
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At the 75th Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Steel Committee meeting held in Paris on December 5-6, the participants discussed the slow growth prospects in the global steel market, exchanged views on the effect ...
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Zhang Changfu, vice president of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), has stated that in the January-October period this year China's crude steel output amounted to 652 million mt, equivalent to an annualized crude steel output of ...
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Turkish integrated steelmaker Erdemir sees a positive outlook for the steel industry in 2014, as stated by the company's marketing and sales coordinator Basak Turgut at the 8th SteelOrbis Turkish Steel Market Conference held in Istanbul on ...
At the recent 1st Assofermet Day & SteelOrbis Conference held in Brescia in northern Italy, Serdar Kilimci, sales Manager of Turkish steel producer Colakoglu Metalurji, gave a presentation on Turkish flat steel imports, exports, production ...
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According to data released by the South East Asian Iron & Steel Institute (SEASI), the steel consumption in the ASEAN countries totaled 32.2 million tons in the first half of this year, jumping by 17% year on year, driven by strong demand ...
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According to report, Russian steelmaker Severstal seeks redirect sales to its domestic market, especially northwest and central regions. In fact, its domestic sales of the first half of 2013 was 61% of the total sales, higher than 56% same ...