E-commerce took off in the steel sector in 2013 as the ailing industry competes to cut costs, Dong Baoqing, an official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a -forum in Shanghai on Sa-turday. ...
Tags: Steel Firms, Mineral
The need of different types of raw ingredients for the iron manufacturing industries is always there. Iron and steel manufacturing industries play a pivotal role in the industrial field, as this is not only a labor intensive field, where ...
Tags: Ferro Alloys, Processing Machinery
On January 13, major Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group announced that its subsidiary Hebei-based Wuyang Iron and Steel Co. (Wuyang Steel) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai-based Baosteel Construction Co. ...
Tags: Wuyang Steel, steel plate, Baosteel Construction, Gandwer, supplyment
Turkey-based special steel producer Yükselen ?elik A.?. has announced that it has acquired Istanbul-based Ramateks Metal Sanayi ve Ticaret A.?., part of Russian steelmaker Mechel. The acquired company operates in the special steel ...
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India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that during the third quarter ended December 31 of the financial year 2013-14 its iron ore output amounted to 7.3 million mt, up 37 percent compared to ...
Tags: NMDC, Iron Ore Output, Steel, Steel News
The Turkish Steel Exporters' Association (CIB) held a Shale Gas Seminar on January 7 at which it discussed the importance and benefits of shale gas applications. The CIB indicated that shale gas brings hope for many energy intensive ...
Tags: Steel, Steel News, Turkish Steel, Shale Gas
Originated in 1973, China's environmental protection industry witnessed rapid development in the period of "Eleventh Five-Year" (1996-2010) and "Twelfth Five-Year" (2011-2015) after experiencing the initial phase in 1980s and the ...
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ArcelorMittal executives announced Thursday the company's plans to reopen its Harriman, Tennessee steel plant, which closed in 2011 due to poor market conditions. In a joint announcement with Tennessee Economic and Community Development ...
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The Turkish Steel Producers' Association (TCUD) has said that the steel industry performance in 2014 will be dependent on the industry's competitiveness, the demand trend in the domestic market, the recovery in export markets, mainly in ...
Tags: Crude Steel Output, Mineral
China's largest steel base, Hebei province, will cut 67.26 million metric tons of capacity by 2017 without putting too much emphasis on local growth in gross domestic product in order to create a sustainable development of the industry and ...
Tags: Steel Capacity, Pollution
Marubeni Corporation ("Marubeni"), jointly with Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc. ("Mitsubishi-Hitachi"), was awarded a contract by JSW Steel Limited, a steel company in the private sector in India, for the supply of a slab sizing ...
Tags: Marubeni, Mitsubishi-Hitachi, cMitsubishi-Hitachi, hot strip mill
China will encourage Chinese steel enterprises suffering from overcapacity to transfer their businesses to overseas markets where the steel market is still very big, a top official was quoted in a statement published on the website of the ...
Tags: steel enterprises, steel industry
According to the latest data released by Statistics South Africa, in November this year the country's producer price index (PPI) for the basic iron and steel industry decreased by 1.2 percent compared to October and was up 12 percent ...
Tags: iron, steel, metallurgy
Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd is leading the effort to go abroad as the country's steel and iron industry struggles with overcapacity, reports Du Juan from Tangshan, Hebei province Against the background of the overcapacity problem ...
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Reportedly, Zhang Changfu, the vice chairman and secretary general of the China Iron & Steel Association (CISA) said that the Chinese steel industry’s margin reached at 0.48% in the January-November period due to increasing steel ...
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