Mexico recorded the largest trade deficit of imports over exports throughout Latin American rolled steel, with 1.5 million tons in the first five months of 2014, said the Latin American Steel Association (Alacero). The apparent ...
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ArcelorMittal’s Lázaro Cárdenas steel plant expects to close 2014 with a production of about 4 million tons of crude steel, of which about 1.2 million tons will comprise finished products--rebar and wire rod--according ...
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Taiwan's machine-tool makers are rushing to keep up with market trends and address the issues of labor cost, production efficiency, and quality by introducing machines that are ever-more automatic, intelligent, and efficient. Already the ...
In July this year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland increased by 7.39 percent compared to June and were up 35.59 percent year on year, totaling 36.08 million metric tons. The figure constitutes a 4.8 percent rise from Port ...
The Mexican steel industry reported an increase of 9.5 percent in crude steel production in the first half of 2014 compared to the same period last year, which reached and production levels prior to the start of the crisis in the global ...
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According to the data released by the Japan Ship Exporters' Association (JSEA), Japanese new ship export orders in June this year increased by 647 percent on tonnage basis compared to May and by 141.49 percent year on year, amounting to 91 ...
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Shandong Daiyin Textile and Garment Group (D&Y Group) is setting up a textile plant in Sedenak Industrial Park, Kulaijaya district in the state of Johor in peninsular Malaysia, through its subsidiary D&Y Textile (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. D&Y ...
In June of the current year, steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic sectors in Japan amounted to 4.83 million metric tons, up 4.84 percent compared to June 2013 and up 1.46 percent compared to May, according to ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending July 12, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,903,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 79.1 percent. Production was 1,852,000 net tons in the ...
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The Phu Hung textile plant, being constructed in Phu Bai Industrial Park, in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue, will commence operations in August this year, reports Viet Nam News. The Vietnam National Textile and ...
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies announced today, July 14, that it has received an order from Indian steelmaker Tata Steel to modernize the secondary emission system in its LD2 shop in Jamshedpur. The aim of the ...
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In May this year, Japan's iron and steel product exports amounted to 3.53 million metric tons, increasing by 8.9 percent month on month, but down four percent year on year, while Japan's iron and steel product imports totaled 738,996 metric ...
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In July this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 268,321 metric tons, increasing by 60.19 percent from 167,500 metric tons in June and up 36.55 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the ...
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Long steel producer Siderurgica Norte Brasil (Sinobras) has received a license to expand its mill in the city of Maraba, in the state of Para, Brazil, the company announced on Thursday. The state’s governor delivered the document to ...
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Indonesia-based steelmaker PT Krakatau Steel (Persero) Tbk (PT KS) has announced that it has signed an agreement with its subsidiary PT Krakatau Engineering and German plantmaker SMS Siemag for the construction of a 1.5 million mt hot strip ...
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