On October 19, Jiangsu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Lianfeng Iron & Steel (Zhangjiagang) Co. (Lianfeng Steel), a subsidiary of Jiangsu-based Chinese steelmaker Yonggang Group Co., successfully commissioned its 1,080 m3 blast furnace ...
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Sichuan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Pangang Group Steel Vanadium & Titanium Co. has announced its financial results for the third quarter of the current year. Accordingly, in the third quarter Pangang Group Steel Vanadium & Titanium ...
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In the week ending October 19, 2013, US domestic raw steel production was 1,835,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 76.6 percent, according to a release by the American Iron and Steel Institute. Comparatively, production ...
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The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) has announced that the China Steel Price Index (CSPI) stood at 100.57 points at the end of September, down 1.54 points month on month, ending the month-on-month uptrend recorded in July and ...
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Austria-based Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will supply a flat bar rolling mill for the Chinese steel manufacturer Qingdao Special Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (Qingdao Steel). The new mill with an annual production capacity ...
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Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has announced the launch of steel billet sales, produced by Interpipe Steel electric steel-melting complex. The steel billet mill, commissioned in 2012, produces round continuously ...
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Austria-based steelmaker voestalpine has announced that it is building Europe's most modern wire rolling mill at its Leoben-Donawitz site in Austria. The company expects to complete the construction by 2016. The wire rolling mill will ...
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According to a statement released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD), Turkish crude steel production, which had been indicating a slowdown since the last quarter of 2012, exceeded 3 million mt in September, for the ...
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In the week from October 14 to October 20, on the Orbis Steel Index the scrap index values have not shown any changes compared to the previous week. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index switched to sideways movement, while the Turkish ...
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On October 20, Australian steelmaker BlueScope Steel Group has announced that its new building materials production plant in Xi'an, China, built with a total investment of RMB 405 million ($66.2 million), has commenced production ...
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Australian flat steel producer BlueScope has announced that it has agreed to acquire from Australia-based Arrium Limited its OneSteel sheet and coil processing and distribution businesses in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. BlueScope ...
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China's dominant refiner Sinopec, or China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, expects to spend Yuan 30 billion ($4.9 billion) annually over the next few years to upgrade its refineries to produce cleaner oil products, the company said Thursday. ...
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China is on track to exceed the rest of the world in demand for base metals by 2017, becoming the single largest consumer, research consultancy Wood Mackenzie said Friday. In its latest base metals demand forecasts, Wood Mackenzie expects ...
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State-owned China National Petroleum Corp said Friday that the Hutubi natural gas storage facility in western Xinjiang has about 1 billion cubic meters of gas inventory, which will help alleviate peak winter demand in the area. The ...
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Chinese researchers said Thursday they have developed a simple and cost-effective way to make ultrahard and ultrastable metals, a technique that could find potential applications in a wide range of industrial manufacturing processes. How ...
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