Chinese steelmaker Tangshan Steel, a subsidiary of Hebei Steel Group, recently exported 1,200 mt of cold rolled galvanized steel products to Malaysia, which were well-received by customers in Malaysia. Tangshan Steel's cold rolled steel ...
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Iron ore blast furnace pellet premiums rose further in March as some steelmakers were said to have agreed quarterly pricing for Q1 around the low $40s/dry mt, and leave open the opportunity to renegotiate for lower pricing later this year. ...
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Sao Paulo, Brazil-based iron ore mining company and flat rolled steel producer Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013. In the fourth quarter, CSN ...
On February 26, Shanghai-based Chinese steel gaint Baosteel Group announced that Xinjiang-based steel producer Nanjiang Steel Baicheng Co. put its coke oven No. 2 into operation on February 24. Nanjiang Steel Baicheng is wholly owned by ...
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Austrian plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that in the last quarter of 2013 three continuous slab casters were put into operation at Chinese steel producer Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group Corp (TISCO). Two of the casters ...
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Brazil-based steel producer Gerdau SA has reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013. In the fourth quarter, the net profit of the company was R$492 million ($208.9 million), rising from R$143 million ...
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BASF is expanding its business in industrial coatings in the growth market of Africa. Since October 2013, the company has supplied coil coatings to Roofings Rolling Mills (RRM), located in Uganda. BASF and its technical service were also on ...
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Now that Mexican President Enrique Pera Nieto has signed the Pacific Alliance between Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Costa Rica, Mexican steel companies await notice that Mexico is excluded from the application of trade safeguards ...
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Mexican steel producer DeAcero released a request Thursday that the US Department of Commerce avoid trade disputes with Mexico and focus on the defense of NAFTA regions, which receive unfair imports from China and the European Union. In ...
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UAE-based steel producer Emirates Steel Industries (ESI) has announced its financial results for 2013, stating that its sales revenues amounted to AED 6.5 billion ($ 1.8 billion), almost eight percent higher than 2012, despite sluggish ...
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Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced that it has completed the strategic review of its thin and precision strip operations in Kloster and Nyby, Sweden and in Dahlerbrück, Germany, launched in June 2013 with ...
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Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) has announced its financial results for 2013, posting a net profit of TRY 100 million ($45.7 million), falling by 48.5 percent compared to ...
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Indonesia launched a safeguard investigation regarding imports of I-beam with height or width of 100 mm up to 600 mm and H-sections with height of 100 mm up to 350 mm, of alloyed steel, according to a statement issued by the World Trade ...
Australian flat steel producer BlueScope has announced that it has agreed to acquire the downstream long product rolling and marketing operations of Fletcher Building's Pacific Steel Group (Pacific Steel), based in Auckland, New Zealand. ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will modernize the slab caster No. 3 at the Duisburg-Huckingen plant of German steel producer Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM). The modernization is ...
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