Steel demand in Latin America is expected to grow 3.5 percent this year, driven by infrastructure programs and new sectors such as energy and automotive. Rafael Rubio, general director of the Latin American Steel Association (Alacero) ...
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The Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade has announced that it has found preliminary evidence of dumping in seamless pipe imports from Ukraine. The antidumping duty investigation was launched in February this ...
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Australia-based Cabral Resources plans to obtain all the environmental permits it needs for its Sincora iron ore project in the state of Bahia, Brazil, by September this year, the company announced this week. “Cabral is currently ...
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Brazil's government is expected to announce Wednesday an increase to the volume of biodiesel mixed with diesel sold at the pump, boosting demand for the biofuel and likely lifting the flagging fortunes of local producers, officials for two ...
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Ethanol production in Brazil's important center-south region fell 4.2% in the first half of May from the same period of 2013 as fewer mills are grinding sugar cane, according to data released Tuesday by cane-grower's trade group Unica. ...
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Brazil-based iron and steel maker Gerdau said Tuesday its proposed logistics and mining investments will enable the company to more than double iron ore production within the next six years, to 24 million mt/yr, from the current 11.5 ...
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The European Commission has published a revised and extended list of Critical Raw Materials, based on threatened supply coupled with economic importance. The 2014 list includes 13 of the 14 materials identified in the previous list of ...
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World cotton trade in 2014/15 is forecast to reach only 36.3 million bales, 10 percent below the previous season and the lowest since 2010/11. While imports by China have supported cotton trade over the last several seasons, expectations ...
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Argentine oil production fell 0.4% in March compared with the year-ago period, while natural gas output rose 0.5% over the same period, an industry report showed Friday. Crude production declined to an average of 533,651 b/d in March from ...
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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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Turkish iron ore imports increased by 25% in the first quarter, on the back of higher blast furnace-based steel output and mills' restocking activity, according to statistics published this week. Data released by the Turkish Statistical ...
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Volvo Group has reported 1% increase in deliveries from of its trucks in April 2014 to 16,354 vehicles, compared to same month previous year. In April 9,365 Volvo trucks were delivered, a decrease of 2% compared with the same month last ...
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In April this year, China imported 47 million mt of iron ore from Australia, up 45.8 percent year on year, accounting for 56.4 percent of China's total iron ore import volume of 83.39 million mt during the given month, as announced by the ...
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Europe is likely to remain a net importer of caustic soda as capacity is threatened by the EU's 2017 deadline to make the costly switch to greener technology, Michael Trager, CEO of German PVC producer Vestolit, said this week. "In the ...
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According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the first four months of the current year amounted to 11.13 million metric tons, 0.1 percent higher year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel ...
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