Diversified miner trader Glencore Xstrata said Tuesday it sold 33.2 million mt of iron ore in 2013, a 68% annual rise in volumes, as it proceeds with studies for projects in Africa to gain marketing clout. As a relatively new entrant to ...
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The optimization of tooling performance helps to eradicate waste.This requires giving suitable consideration to the choice and treatment of the tool steel. Consumer of tool steels are confronted with a variety of options related to flame ...
Steel metal is produced in various thickness's for various uses and application. A steel sheet that has a width higher than 6mm is known as a plate. The tool steel is basically the raw material that will be formed with various plate cutting ...
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With advances in both materials and manufacturing methods, cast irons and steels are becoming ever more attractive solutions to a range of engineering problems and requirements. These versatile materials can be formed into increasingly ...
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Brazil-based miner Vale has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013, reporting a net loss of $6.45 billion, compared to a net loss of $2.61 billion in the same quarter of the previous year, as a ...
Southern Coal plans to produce an additional 900,000 st of steam and metallurgical coal this year from two surface mines in eastern Kentucky that have been reopened and/or expanded, according to a senior company official. The Beech Creek ...
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Increased low-ash thermal coal production from Whitehaven Coal's Narrabri underground mine in New South Wales was a key driver for a 48% year-on-year rise in the Australian coal producer's earnings before interest, depreciation and tax to ...
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Around a quarter of Australian metallurgical coal is sold on a spot basis following a significant increase in production and the fact that the primary buyer, China, prefers short-term pricing, an analysis of Platts data and a survey of ...
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Russia-based pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has informed that it has won a tender for the supply of pipes for the construction of the first phase of the offshore section of the South Stream main pipeline. ...
Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest has announced that its integrated iron and steel plant Ural Steel saw its crude steel production in the fourth quarter last year decrease by 7.6 ...
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Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) has announced its financial results for 2013, posting a net profit of TRY 100 million ($45.7 million), falling by 48.5 percent compared to ...
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Anglo American's thermal coal division produced 67.6 million mt in the 2013 financial year, slipping 2% on the year due to lower-than-expected production at Colombia's Cerrejon and South Africa's New Vaal mines. The miner said in its ...
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According to Russian Railway statistics, in January this year direct supplies of steel scrap by rail to Russian metallurgical companies and pipe plants totaled 585,100 mt, down 5.6 percent compared to January 2013 and half the volume ...
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In January this year,Ukrainian metallurgical company Dneprospetsstal(DSS)posted a 7.4 percent year-on-year increase in its crude steel production to 24,000 mt.The company's output of finished steel in the same month declined by 23.7 percent ...
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In January this year, China exported 6.77 million mt of finished steel, up 37.6 percent year on year and rising by 1.4 million mt compared with the previous month, as announced by China's General Administration of Customs on February 12. ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral