Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest was forced to cut production volumes, due to the complicated situation in the market, SteelOrbis has heard. Metinvest will slow down all new orders and focus on fulfillment of earlier ...
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The US steel industry hit a new 2014 high for capability utilization last week, when raw steel production climbed to 79.8% from 78.7% the week before, according to American Iron and Steel Institute data released Monday. The previous high ...
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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) and more than 40 other associations are urging the State Department to move ahead toward completion of the Keystone XL pipeline. In a letter sent Tuesday to Secretary of State John Kerry, in ...
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According to the statistics released by the US International Trade Commission (US ITC), in May this year exports of iron and steel scrap from the US amounted to 1.55 million mt, increasing by 15.78 percent from April, but down 27.7 percent ...
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Ukrainian steelmaker Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol (Ilyich), a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has stated that it has invested more than UAH 20 million ($1.68 million) in the ...
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Ukrainian steelmaker Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol (Ilyich), a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has announced that it is investing more than UAH 52 million ($4.33 million) in ...
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In June this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports increased by 17.1 percent year on year and by 5.9 percent compared to May to $1.62 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry of Finance. In ...
Prices of imported iron ore in China have continued to decline since the start of the summer, while domestic crude steel output is still at high levels amid increases in steel exports, though domestic demand for steel products has remained ...
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In the first five months of this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 0.61 percent on year-on-year basis to 2.69 million metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. 55 percent of ...
In May of the current year, steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic sectors in Japan amounted to 4.76 million metric tons, up 2.71 percent compared to May 2013, but down 2.6 percent compared to April, according ...
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In the first four months of this year, Japan's galvanized sheet output amounted to 3.98 million mt, up 2.13 percent compared to the same period of 2013. In April, the country's galvanized sheet output decreased by 13.54 percent compared to ...
In April this year, Japan's hot rolled plate and sheet shipments decreased by 10.36 percent compared to March and were up 2.04 percent on year-on-year basis, amounting to 860,207 metric tons. 80 percent of shipments were made to the ...
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On June 20, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in May this year China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) issued iron ore import licenses for a total of 99.6534 million mt, down 8.46 percent month on month, valued at ...
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Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that its Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji registered a quarter-on-quarter decrease of 20.2 percent in its sales revenues for the first quarter of the current ...
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Brazil's iron ore export volume amounted to 30.69 million mt in May this year, increasing by 24.25 percent compared to April and up 12.92 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the information released by the Brazilian ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, flat steel