In the first month this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip output increased by 3.56 percent year on year to 555,783 metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. Meanwhile, in the given month the ...
Tags: CR Sheet, Strip Shipments
According to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association (JISF), steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic steel consuming sectors in Japan in January of the current year amounted to 7.43 million ...
Tags: Steel Product, Domestic Orders
Based on the US Commerce Department’s most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that steel import permit applications for the month of February total ...
Tags: Steel Import, Mineral
On March 6, Chinese steel giant Baosteel Group stated that its Xinjiang-based subsidiary Bayi Iron and Steel Co. (Bayi Steel) actively focused on the Central Asian market amid sluggish domestic market conditions last year. In 2013, Bayi ...
Tags: Bayi Steel, Substantial Growth
February steel imports are expected to hold at elevated levels seen in January, which was already a near 27% boost from December, according to Department of Commerce data that was updated Tuesday. The US had 2.9 million mt of steel ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Plate products
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending March 1, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,861,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 77.4 percent. Production was 1,875,000 net tons in the ...
The profitability of steelmakers based in China's Hebei Province remained low in 2013, with 16 percent of key steel companies in the province suffering losses, according to media reports citing the recent 2014 board meeting of the Hebei ...
Tags: steelmakers, steel industry
US raw steel production picked up 1.6% week on week as steelmaking in the Great Lakes bounced up 4.4%, American Iron and Steel Institute data released Tuesday showed. In the week ended March 1, US mills produced 1.861 million st of raw ...
On February 28, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang Group) announced that in the current year it expects to produce 12 million mt of pig iron, 12.45 million mt of crude steel and 11.66 million mt of ...
Tags: Baogang, Crude Steel
In January this year, Japan's industrial production increased by four percent from December and rose by 10.6 percent from January 2013, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report published by Japan's Ministry ...
Tags: Iron and Steel, Mineral
Sichuan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co. (Pangang Group) has announced that it plans to issue short-term bonds worth a total of RMB 3 billion ($483.9 million) on March 4. This will be the company's first ...
According to the preliminary report released by the South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI), in 2013 apparent steel consumption in ASEAN countries increased by 8-10 percent year on year. Meanwhile, in the given year the region's ...
Tags: Steel Consumption, Mineral
On February 27, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in mid-February (Feb. 11-20) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.6888 million mt, ...
Tags: Daily Crude Steel, Mineral
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that the US imported a total of 3,172,000 net tons (nt) of steel in January 2014, including 2,409,000 nt of finished steel (up 26.6 ...
Tags: Steel Imports, finished steel, Mineral
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has received an order from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. to supply the control system for an LNG carrier that is being built for the Ichthys LNG project* in Australia. The ship will be the ...