In May this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.8 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on June 13, with this growth rate 0.1 percentage points higher than that ...
Tags: Industrial Output, steel output
Scrap market activity remained sluggish in eastern China over the week with prices mainly holding steady and unlikely to gain any upward momentum in the short term as the outlook for the finished steel market remains pessimistic, market ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Heavy Scrap
China exported 8.07 million mt of finished steel in May this year, up 7.03 percent month on month, while it exported 33.94 million mt of finished steel in the January-May period of the year, rising by 33.6 percent year on year, according to ...
Tags: Finished Steel, iron ore
India's finished steel consumption totaled 12.62 million mt in the first two months of the current Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2014), with a 0.5 percent year-on-year increase, according to provisional estimates released by the ...
According to the short-range outlook report issued by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, demand has continued to improve in the global long steel products market, especially in the Americas and ...
Tags: Long Steel Markets, Healthy Demand
Latin America is the second most important destination for Chinese finished steel exports, said Alacero on Tuesday. According to the trade group, finished steel imports from China to Latin America reached 2.5 million metric tons between ...
Tags: Finished Steel, steel exports
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 May total 3,950,000 net ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel, finished steel
In April this year, Japan's industrial production decreased by 2.5 percent from March and rose by 4.1 percent from April 2013, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report published by Japan's Ministry of ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Production
In the January-May period of the current year, the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 2.480 million mt, down 4.1 percent year on year, as announced by the ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Output, finished steel products
In May this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector stood at 46.4 percent, down by 6.2 percentage points as compared to April, falling below 50 percent again, as announced by the China Steel Logistics ...
Tags: Steel Sector
In the first four months of this year, Turkey's finished steel output increased by 0.4 percent year on year to 11.49 million metric tons, according to a report released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In the ...
Tags: Finished Steel, flat products
India's state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced that it sold 1.06 million mt of finished steel products in May this year, registering year-on-year growth of 11 percent. In the given month, the company's ...
Tags: Steel Demand, Steel
In the January-April period of the current year, China's crude steel output amounted to 271.86 million mt, up 2.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on May 29. The growth rate in ...
Tags: Crude Steel, overall outputs
Import iron ore prices in China have undergone two rounds of declines so far in the current year, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a statement issued on May 28. By March 10, import iron ore prices in China ...
Indian state-owned steel producer Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced its financial results for the financial year 2013-14 ended March 31. Accordingly, SAIL's net profit increased by 20.36 percent to INR 26.16 billion ...
Tags: Steel, steel production