Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group has announced that in the January-April period of the current year its subsidiary Tangshan Iron and Steel Co. (Tangsteel) exported 1.39 million mt of finished steel, ...
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Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the first quarter of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 16.4 million mt, up one percent year on year. The highest increases ...
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The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has stated that the Indian Supreme Court order for the temporary closure of about 26 iron ore mines in the Indian state of Odisha may result in a significant fall in ...
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The US ferrous scrap import market was quiet in East Asia during the week, regional traders said Thursday. Importing mills were staying away because they believed US scrap prices were likely to soften after iron ore broke the $100/dry mt ...
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In April this year, Ukrainian metallurgical company Dneprospetsstal (DSS) saw a 9.1 percent month-on-month decrease in its crude steel production to 22,300 mt. The company's output of finished steel in the same month increased by 2.6 ...
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On May 16, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in early May (May 1-10) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China - all CISA members - totaled 1.824 ...
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South Africa's primary carbon and alloy steel product imports (excluding semi-finished steel, stainless steel and drawn wire) amounted to 55,207 mt in March this year, decreasing by 57.7 percent compared to February and down 39.5 percent ...
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US recycler Metalico expects domestic ferrous scrap pricing to remain under pressure until the American scrap export market improves, it said Thursday. First-quarter US scrap exports were at an eight-year low, leading domestic exporters ...
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On May 13, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (May 5-11) the overall average finished steel price in China declined by 0.2 percent compared to the previous week. In the given week, the average prices of ...
In April this year, the average aggregate daily crude steel output in China amounted to 2.2947 million mt, up 1.2 percent compared to the average daily figure recorded in March this year and constituting a new record high, as announced by ...
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In April this year, China's overall value-added industrial output increased by 8.7 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on May 13, with this growth rate 0.1 percentage point lower than that ...
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Based on the US 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 April total ...
On May 9, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in late April (Apr. 21-30) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.7959 million mt, up 2.66 ...
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China exported 7.54 million mt of finished steel in April this year, up 11.5 percent month on month, while it exported 25.87 million mt of finished steel in the January-April period of the year, rising by 29.5 percent year on year, ...
Tags: Finished Steel, coke
India's finished steel consumption totaled 73.93 million mt in the whole of the last Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2013-ended March 31, 2014), with a 0.6 percent year-on-year increase, according to provisional estimates released by ...
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