The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that for the month of May 2014, US steel mills shipped 8,398,976 net tons, a 2.0 percent increase from the 8,235,096 net tons shipped in the previous month, April 2014, and a ...
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In the first four months of this year, Spanish steel exports amounted to 3.2 million mt, up 6.9 percent year on year, while the value of these exports totaled €2.44 million, according to the Spanish steelmakers association Unesid. ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending July 5, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,853,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 77.0 percent. Production was 1,844,000 net tons in the ...
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Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the first five months of this year finished steel imports from China to Latin America increased by 81 percent year on year to 3.4 million metric tons. Latin America, which ...
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In the first five months of this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 0.61 percent on year-on-year basis to 2.69 million metric tons, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. 55 percent of ...
In May of the current year, steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic sectors in Japan amounted to 4.76 million metric tons, up 2.71 percent compared to May 2013, but down 2.6 percent compared to April, according ...
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Apollo Tyres is set to invest $340m to strengthen manufacturing capabilities at its Chennai and Kalamassery, Kerala plants. As part of the expansion project, the company will boost truck and bus radial tyre capacity at Chennai plant to ...
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In the first four months of this year, Japan's galvanized sheet output amounted to 3.98 million mt, up 2.13 percent compared to the same period of 2013. In April, the country's galvanized sheet output decreased by 13.54 percent compared to ...
In April this year, Japan's hot rolled plate and sheet shipments decreased by 10.36 percent compared to March and were up 2.04 percent on year-on-year basis, amounting to 860,207 metric tons. 80 percent of shipments were made to the ...
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In March this year, European stainless crude steel production increased by one percent to 710,000 metric tons, with Sweden's production increasing by six percent, Slovenia's production up two percent and Germany's production down 20 ...
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Global crude steel production in May this year increased by 2.2 percent year on year to 141.18 million metric tons, while a 3.34 percent rise was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). In ...
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According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the first five months of the current year amounted to 14.01 million metric tons, 0.8 percent lower year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel ...
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In the first five months of this year, world pig iron production amounted to 493.64 million mt, rising by 1.22 percent compared to the same period of 2013, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting for approximately ...
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In the January-May period of the current year, the aggregate shipbuilding output in China amounted to 13.02 million deadweight tons (dwt), down 24.3 percent year on year, according to figures released by the China Association of the ...
According to the data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 87 percent of total world DRI production in 2013 amounted to 5.08 ...
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