With an investment of US$65 million, Monterrey, Mexico-based pipe producer Forza Steel began operations at a new plant that has expanded to double the company's installed capacity. Forza's CEO, Eduardo Villarreal Leal, attributed the ...
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Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. announced Thursday that the Company’s Board of Directors has appointed Lourenco Goncalves to the positions of Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Goncalves replaces ...
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Friday its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of OCTG from India, Korea, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, ...
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In its financial report for the first half of the current year issued on August 8, Hunan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Co. (Hunan Valin Steel) announced that it recorded a net profit of RMB 19.01 million ($3.08 ...
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Belarus-based Byelorussian Steel Works (BMZ) has stated that in July this year its plans to ship around 90,000 mt of rebar, up 12 percent compared to June results. In the January-June period of the current year, BMZ shipped about 545,000 ...
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Long steel producer Siderurgica Norte Brasil (Sinobras) has received a license to expand its mill in the city of Maraba, in the state of Para, Brazil, the company announced on Thursday. The state’s governor delivered the document to ...
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Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest, due to the difficult situation in eastern Ukraine, has given details about the status of its production, raw materials supply and shipments of finished goods to customers as of July 31. ...
Japan-based Daido Steel Co., Ltd has announced that it reached an agreement on July 9 to buy a 10 percent stake in Indian specialty steel producer Sunflag Iron and Steel Company Ltd for approximately JPY 1 billion ($9.87 million). ...
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Indonesia-based steelmaker PT Krakatau Steel (Persero) Tbk (PT KS) has announced that it has signed an agreement with its subsidiary PT Krakatau Engineering and German plantmaker SMS Siemag for the construction of a 1.5 million mt hot strip ...
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A fire broke out Thursday morning at CMC’s Seguin, Texas facility, centralized in an outdoor pile of scrap metal. The dimensions of the pile, spreading across about one acre but is 30-40 feet deep according to officials, made the fire ...
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In July this year, Germany's crude steel output decreased by 3.1 percent month on month to 3.45 million metric tons, rising by 1.5 percent compared to July 2013, according to the information provided by the German steel federation ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it will deliver a hot-wide-strip pickling and hot dip galvanizing line for Germany-based Wuppermann Group's new plant in the Hungarian town of Gyr-Gny The new strip processing line will go ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa (SSA), in May this year South Africa's manufacturing output decreased by 3.7 percent compared to the same month of 2013. The main reasons for the decrease included the ...
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In Sweden, industrial production increased by one percent in June this year compared to May and decreased by 1.1 percent year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). On the other hand, the production ...
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In June this year, Swedish crude steel production amounted to 400,500 metric tons, increasing by 8.1 percent year on year, but down 2.6 percent as compared to May, according to the latest data released by the Swedish Steel Producers' ...
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