Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Tangshan Iron and Steel Co. (Tanggang), a subsidiary of Hebei Iron and Steel Group (HBIS), has an agreement on cooperation in technology and innovation with Siemens VAI Metals Technologies Co., Ltd., ...
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Hunan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Valin Lianyuan Iron and Steel Co., a subsidiary of Hunan Valin Iron and Steel Group Co., heated its blast furnace No. 3 on March 4, with the blast furnace accordingly expected to start production ...
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According to a company statement, in 2012, Novolipetsk, Russian steelmaker NLMK's main production site in Lipetsk, completed 120 environmental projects as compared to 100 in 2011, with investments totaling approximately RUB 1.3 billion ...
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Quintain Steel, one of the major wire rod producers in Taiwan, announced to raise all its wire rod prices on Feb 25th. Affected by the raw material markup and NT dollar depreciation, the company finally decided to hike prices by nearly ...
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China Steel Corp (CSC), Taiwan's largest steel maker, starts to operate its No. 6 blast furnace in China Dragon Steel’s (CDS, affiliate company of CSC) plant on March 5. This new blast furnace is designed for producing 2,500,000 ...
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Latin American steelmaker Ternium has reported a net loss of $275 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to a net profit of $136.4 million in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. In the full year 2012, Ternium's net ...
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Reportedly, Hungary’s largest steelmaker Dunaferr announced that the company was not able to agree on this year’s pay raises situation. Meanwhile, the company’s employees have requested of minimum 5% salary increase for ...
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According to the preliminary data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global pig iron production in the 38 countries reporting to worldsteel accounting for approximately 99 percent of total world blast furnace pig iron ...
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In January this year, Italian crude steel output decreased by 19.7 percent year on year to 1.801 million metric tons, according to the figures released by the Italian steel producers association Federacciai. January is the 10th month in a ...
According to the latest data regarding crude steel production in France released by the French Steel Federation (FFA), in January this year French crude steel production amounted to 1.3505 million metric tons, down by 1.3 percent year on ...
According to report, Argentina’ steelmaker Ternium Siderar that the company plans to restart the No. 2 blast furnace at its Siderar operation in Argentina in the first quarter of 2013. In fact, the company has participated all ...
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Reportedly, Chile's CAP Acero, the steel arm of the CAP group, announced to temporary shutdown its No. 1 blast furnace on Monday in order to replace its refractory lining. Meanwhile, the maintenance schedule will take at least 70 days ...
Turkey's largest steelmaking group Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari TAS (Erdemir) has announced its financial results for the full year 2012. In 2012, the net profit of the company amounted to TRY 424.18 million ($238.85 million), down ...
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On February 19, Zhejiang Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hangzhou Iron and Steel Group Company (HISGC) announced that in 2013 it plans to implement 43 technological upgrading projects, with a total investment of RMB 596.41 million ($95.58 ...
Shougang, one of the largest steel companies in China informed its trade agents to raise the prices of hot rolled and cold rolled coils by RMB180/ton and RMB180~RMB250/ton respectively for March. Also, the company decided to increase ...