Finland-based steelmaker Ruukki has issued its financial results for the first quarter of the current year, stating that it expects demand for steel to pick up slightly in 2014. Nevertheless, demand growth will continue to be limited by ...
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Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that the US imported a total of 3,219,000 net tons (nt) of steel in March, including 2,425,000 nt of finished steel (down 2.0 percent ...
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Ukraine's natural gas output in March fell 5.6% year-on-year to 1.68 billion cubic meters, from 1.78 Bcm in March 2013, an energy and coal industry ministry official said Wednesday, citing preliminary figures. Production fell after the ...
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Refining margins for sweet crudes are out-performing margins for sour crudes like Urals in Northwest Europe, Platts data shows, as lighter refined products have surged while heavier products have dropped. While cracking margins -- which ...
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Amer Sports reported net sales reached €501.5 million in the quarter ended March 30, an increase of 6 percent in local currency, or currency-neutral, terms. The owner of Acr'teryx, Salomon, Suunto and other outdoor sporting goods ...
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Russia-based pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has stated that its subsidiary Vyksa Steel Works has started producing large diameter (LD) pipes for the first offshore section of the South Stream gas pipeline. ...
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Russian exports of stainless steel products in February this year increased by 5.6 percent month on month to 731 mt, according to Russia-based SpetsStal Association. In particular, in February this year Russia's exports of long steel went ...
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Global crude steel production in March this year increased by 2.7 percent year on year to 141.34 million metric tons, while a 13.1 percent rise was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). In ...
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Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest has announced that it has secured a one-year contract to supply iron ore concentrate to Russian pig iron and coking coal producer KOKS Group. Under ...
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Russia's Gazprom has begun natural gas output from its fifth producing onshore well in Bangladesh, Semutang-6, at around 7,000 Mcf/d, Bapex Managing Director Md Abdul Baqi told Platts Friday. The well, which started production last week, ...
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Russia has agreed to ship 23 million mt of crude to Belarus this year, a spokeswoman for the Russian Energy Ministry said Friday. Russia is planning to ship 21 million mt by pipeline and a further 2 million mt by rail this year, the ...
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Russian gas giant Gazprom has sent the first cargo with crude produced at the Prirazlomnoye offshore field -- the country's only Arctic offshore hydrocarbon project -- to the international market, the company said Friday. "ARCO, or Arctic ...
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UK spot gas prices were sliding again Thursday morning, compared with Wednesday's close, as the system remained well supplied and demand low, and with regular deliveries of Qatari LNG recently. By 09:25 UK time, the NBP within-day had ...
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The Russian Union of Entrepreneurs of Textile and Light Industry, with the support of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will organize the 1st International Industry Forum for the ...
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Russian steelmaker NLMK Group has announced? that it has started hot testing the second pulverized coal injection (PCI) unit in its blast furnace operations at the main production site in Lipetsk (Novolipetsk). The company has started ...
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