Taiwan's steel producer China Steel Corp. (CSC) has decided to bring forward maintenance work on its largest blast furnace to September 1st. Originally, the planned maintenance was for end of last year, but in June last year, the ...
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Quintain Steel, one of the major wire rod producers in Taiwan, announced to cut its list prices for all its wire rod products for June. This is the first time that the company cut the price since early of this year. Affected by China Steel ...
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Yieh Hsing, one of the major steel long product producers in Taiwan released its list prices for June. The company decided to cut its list prices for wire rods by NT$1,400/ton for June, following the price cut made by China Steel Corp. ...
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It is learned that Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel is to shut down a blast furnace and other upstream equipment at its Kobe Works plant in western Japan in the financial year 2017-18. The decision came after the announcement of ¥ 50.2 ...
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It is reported that NLMK, the Russian steelmaker announced that starting 30th May, it is idling its blast furnace No. 3. The furnace which is situated at a site in Lipetsk has an annual capacity of 1.3 million tons of production. The blast ...
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It is reported that Iran’s Esfahan Steel planned to reopen its No.2 blast furnace (BF) in July this year. The designed annual production capacity of this blast furnace was at 1.4 million tons. Meanwhile, the company expected to target ...
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Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel has announced that, to increase the competitiveness of its steelworks, it has decided on large-scale investments including a new hot-metal treatment plant, a new heat treatment furnace for steel plate, and ...
Tags: Japan, Far East, investments, steelmaking, Kobe Steel, Istanbul
In April this year, French crude steel production amounted to 1.245 million mt, down by 12.2 percent year on year, according to the latest data released by the French Steel Federation (FFA). In April, crude steel production in France ...
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JSW Steel, one of the largest Indian steelmakers, has posted an 11 percent year-on-year decrease in crude steel production to 637,000 mt in April this year. According to the company's statement, in April JSW Steel produced 455,000 mt of ...
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In April this year, global pig iron production amounted to 98.25 million metric tons, decreasing by 2.15 percent compared to March and up 3.5 percent on year-on-year basis, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting ...
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Reportedly, Serbian integrated steelmaker Zelezara Smederevo announced to resume the operation under the country’s government management last week. The company’s has already begun to run cold rolled mill last week while the ...
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On May 17, construction work started on the blast furnace project at Chinese steel producer Baosteel's Zhanjiang steel base, as announced by Beijing-based state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC). CISDI Group Co., a ...
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At 11:00 pm. May 17, with the piling and construction opening of No. 1 blast furnace, Baosteel Zhanjiang Steel project enters full construction phase. In this day, Zhanjiang Steel six main projects auxiliary facilities: iron, steel, ...
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On May 16, Tianjin, China-based Tianjin Metallurgical No. 3 Steel & Youfa Iron and Steel Corp.'s blast furnace No. 2, designed by Huatian Engineering and Technology Co., a subsidiary of China Metallurgical Group Co. (MCC), successfully ...
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Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that its Ukrainian subsidiary ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih has finished the overhaul of its blast furnace No. 7 in just 26 days. During this period, the blast furnace in question was idle for four ...
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