Steel rebar galvanizing is a promising but largely overlooked niche for zinc that has the potential to be a 400,000 mt market in the near term, and also has significant technological and cost advantages, a zinc industry official said late ...
Tags: Steel Rebar, Mineral
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will supply a new continuous galvanizing line for Chinese steelmaker Pangang Group's Chongqing plant. The line will process 450,000 mt of high-strength cold strip ...
Tags: Galvanizing Line, Mineral
According to a report released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD), in 2013 Turkey's steel import volume increased by 25.4 percent to 14.85 million mt, valued at $12.81 billion, up 14.1 percent, both compared to ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Mineral
According to a report released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD), in 2013 Turkey's steel exports decreased by 6.3 percent to 19 million mt, while the value of these exports declined by 7.9 percent to $15.78 ...
Tags: Steel Exports, Mineral
In January this year, total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and timber - increased by 1.2 percent year on year to 96.3 million mt, according to the State ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Mineral
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. ...
In 2013, Turkey's finished steel output increased by 6.2 percent to 36.4 million metric tons, in line with the increase in the country's semi-finished product imports during the year in question, according to a report released by the ...
Tags: Finished Steel, Mineral
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), last year Turkey's pre-painted galvanized iron (PPGI) imports amounted to 79,312 mt, increasing by 82 percent from 43,613 mt in 2012, while the revenue from these ...
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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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According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), in January this year Brazilian steelmakers produced 2.74 million metric tons of crude steel, up 2.74 percent from December and down 1.36 percent year on year. Brazil's rolled steel product ...
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Brazil's motor vehicle output in January this year increased by 2.9 percent from the previous month and decreased by 18.7 percent year on year to 237,491 units (excluding agricultural vehicles), according to the Brazilian Motor Vehicle ...
Tags: Motor Vehicle, Mineral
In January this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector stood at 40.7 percent, down sharply by seven percentage points as compared to December last year, remaining below 50 for the fifth consecutive month and ...
Tags: Steel Sector, Mineral
Gansu Province-based Chinese steelmaker Jiuquan Iron and Steel Group (JISCO) has announced that in 2013 its Gansu-based subsidiary Hongxing Steel recorded an estimated net loss of RMB 2.35 billion ($385.2 million), as compared with a net ...
Tags: Hongxing Steel, Mineral, steelmaker
The Mexican Ministry of Economy announced Wednesday that it has imposed a final anti-dumping duty on imports of rolled steel plate from Russia, as part of a continuing investigation. Duties were set at 29.3 percent on Russian imports of ...
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has stated that the industrial value-added output of large-scale Chinese enterprises in 2014 is expected to increase by 9.5 percent year on year, slightly lower than the growth ...
Tags: Value-Added Output, Mineral