In the first two months of this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments increased by 0.66 percent on year-on-year basis to 1.05 million metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. 56 percent of ...
Tags: CR Sheet, Strip, Steel, Construction
Steel production in the US Great Lakes region tumbled 6.8% last week after falling 9.8% the week before, the American Iron and Steel Institute reported Monday. The Great Lakes region produced 565,000 st of steel in the week ended ...
In March this year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland increased by 28.9 percent compared to February and were up 38.2 percent year on year, recording the highest volume ever, totaling 34.43 million metric tons. According to ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In the first two months of this year, Turkey's scrap imports moved upwards, after decreasing 12 percent in 2013 compared to 2012, according to the report released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In the given ...
Tags: Scrap, Metallurgy, Mineral
According to local news reports, US Steel has announced it will be halting steelmaking operations at its Gary, Ind, mill because poor weather conditions in the Great Lakes region has delayed incoming shipments of iron ore. Although it's ...
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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for March 2014, with both carload and intermodal volume increasing compared with March 2013. Intermodal traffic in March totaled 1,025,907 containers ...
Indian state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced that its finished steel sales increased by seven percent year-on-year to 12.1 million mt in financial year 2013-14 ending March 31. Growth in domestic sales ...
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The US hot-rolled coil market continues to be supported by limited Midwest supply, while cold-rolled coil import offers for May were heard to be lower. On the domestic front, most buyers expect another round of price increases following ...
Tags: HRC, hot-rolled coil, Construction, Decoration, coil
Based on the Commerce Department's most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that steel import permit applications for the month of March total 3,485,000 ...
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According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the first two months of this year Turkey's pre-painted galvanized iron (PPGI) exports amounted to 12,615 mt, decreasing by 67.37 percent, while the revenue from ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in March this year it produced 704,000 mt of pig iron, down 24.02 percent, 749,800 mt of crude steel, down 19.14 percent, and 680,000 mt of ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Steel, finished steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
In February this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 20.03 million mt, increasing by 3.29 percent year on year, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, iron ore
The European Parliament has announced that about 98 percent of the customs duties that Ukrainian iron, steel, farm produce and machinery exporters pay at EU borders will be removed by a proposal backed by the European Parliament on ...
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According to the Indian government's Press Information Bureau (PIB), iron ore handling has commenced at Mormugao Port in the Indian state of Goa with an iron ore shipment of 70,000 mt destined for China, following the easing of the ban by ...
Gansu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Jiuquan Iron and Steel Group (JISCO) has announced that in 2013 its Gansu-based subsidiary Hongxing Steel recorded a net loss of RMB 2.338 billion ($383.28 million), as compared with a net profit of ...
Tags: Steel, Iron, Hongxing Steel