According to the report released by Argentina's steel chamber, in February this year the country's crude steel production was down 4.2 percent month on month and increased by 18.6 percent year on year, amounting to 380,300 metric tons. ...
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AK Steel announced Friday that it expects a loss for its first quarter, attributing temporary factors such as an unplanned blast furnace outage. Harsh winter weather--the main complaint for other US mills--was also mentioned as a factor. ...
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Australia's Port Hedland is considering plans to increase its port capacity which could translate into an increase in the port's iron ore exports to 500 million mt per year through new terminals at Finucane Island and Lumsden Point, ...
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Australia-based Roy Hill Holdings has announced that it has signed a $7.2 billion funding package for the Roy Hill iron ore mining project located in West Australia's Pilbara region. According to Roy Hill Holdings, the Roy Hill project ...
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Speaking at the 4th Global Coking Coal Resource & Market Summit 2014 held in Taiyuan, Wang Yingsheng, director of market research at the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), stated that in the current year China's steel consumption will ...
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Baker Hughes reported that for the week ending March 21, the US rig count decreased by six to 1,803, following a 17-rig increase the previous week.? The rig count is still up by 57 from 1,746 rigs during the same week a year ago.? The oil ...
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India's finished steel consumption totaled 67.25 million mt in the first 11 months of the current Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2013), with a 0.7 percent year-on-year increase, according to provisional estimates released by the Joint ...
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The conflict mineral issue is providing a perfect storm for social change. It’s also leading electronics company CEOs to understand with great discomfort just how little they truly know about their supply chains. It’s a ...
The Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom has announced that in 2013 Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises saw their aggregate losses decline by 22 percent year on year,falling from UAH 15.7 billion in 2012 to UAH 12.2 ...
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Alacero,the Latin American steel association,participated at the recent Economics Committee meeting of the World Steel Association(worldsteel)held in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates(UAE).During the meeting the Economics Committee ...
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Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has announced its results for 2013. Accordingly, in 2013 Metinvest's consolidated revenues totalled $12.807 million, up two percent compared with $12.569 million in 2012, mainly driven ...
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In February this year, Turkey's crude steel output increased by 0.7 percent year on year and declined by 5.8 percent month on month to 2.67 million metric tons, according to the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In the ...
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In February this year, Swedish crude steel production amounted to 367,500 metric tons, increasing by 8.5 percent year on year and down 5.1 percent as compared to January, according to the latest data released by the Swedish Steel Producers' ...
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UK-based iron ore mining-focused investment company International Mining & Infrastructure Corporation (IMIC) has announced its plans to accelerate to development of its Ntem iron ore project in Cameroon.Since its acquisition of Afferro ...
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In January this year, Japan's hot rolled plate and sheet shipments increased by 7.48 percent compared to December and were down 0.36 percent on year-on-year basis, amounting to 888,747 metric tons. 78 percent of shipments were made to the ...
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