According to Taiwanese Ministry of Finance, Taiwan's export value of iron and steel and articles made from iron and steel amounted to USD 1.5 billion in May 2013, decreased by 3.6% compared to the same month of 2012 and up 6.2% MoM. In May, ...
Tags: Construction, steel
Refractory metals are a special group of elements, which are otherwise metals by nature. These metals have certain properties like, a. Exceptionally high melting points and b. Unusually resistant to wear and tear, physical deformation ...
Tags: Crucial Aspects, Refractories
Baosteel plans to cut the price of ship-building plate for July shipment around RMB230/ton (US$37/ton). Meanwhile, market participants also predict whether Baosteel would cut the price of HR and CR by the same level for July shipment. ...
Tags: Construction, steel, Ship-Building Plate
According to report of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), the US steel import permit applications for My totaled 2.8 million net tons, rising by 4% from 2.697 million net tons in April and increasing by 2% in comparison of 2.738 ...
Tags: Steel Import, Mineral
Reportedly, Korean Posco Specialty Steel (Posco SS) announced to remain its domestic prices for austenitic stainless wire rods and bars unchanged for June. However, Posco SS refused to disclose its sales prices. It’s known that ...
The Shanghai Steel Trading Center was established in Baoshan District in the morning of May 31, with steel products online sales, supplies procurement, circulation processing and supply chain financing as its main function. The center will ...
According to data released by the Turkish Statistical and Institute (TUIK), Turkey’s export revenues generated by iron and steel totaled US$954 million in April, falling by 11.2% from a month ago but rising by 3.5% year on year. ...
It’s reported that the Chinese steel industry posted falling gross profits for the first four months of this year, according to Wang Xiaoqi, deputy chairman of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA). The monthly figures were ...
Tags: Steel Industry, Gross Profits
It is learned that Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel is to shut down a blast furnace and other upstream equipment at its Kobe Works plant in western Japan in the financial year 2017-18. The decision came after the announcement of ¥ 50.2 ...
Tags: Kobe Steel, Blast Furnace
Police in the southern Italian city of Taranto have confiscated €8.1 billion worth of property and goods belonging to the Riva family, owners of the Riva Fire holding company which controls the troubled Ilva steel plant, as widespread ...
Tags: Italy, production, steelmaking, European Union, Brescia
Pakistan's iron and steel scrap imports amounted to 119,921 mt in April this year, increasing 4.6 percent compared to April last year and up 3.1 percent month on month, according to data released by the Pakistan Federal Bureau of Statistics ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In the first quarter of the current year, South Africa's seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.9 percent quarter on quarter, according to the detailed statistics released by Statistics South Africa. The country's ...
Tags: economy, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to a report released by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in April this year the import price of iron ore increased by 1.5 percent year on year in Germany, while it was up by 4.8 percent as compared to March this ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to data released by the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA), China’s inventories of main steel products including hot rolled coils (HRC), plates, cold rolled coils (CRC), wire rod and rebar in China decreased as of May ...
Tags: Steel Stocks, China, Construction&Decorat
According to data of the Japanese Ministry of Finance, the country’s exports of iron and steel products totaled 3.6 million tons in April, falling by 9.75% from a month ago but rising by 18.1% year on year. In April, the ...