Ukrainian steelmaker Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol (Ilyich), a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, has announced that it is investing more than UAH 52 million ($4.33 million) in ...
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Evraz UGOK (Southern Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise), a subsidiary of Russian mining and steel producing company Evraz Group, has announced that in June this year its iron ore concentrate production increased by 7.3 percent year on ...
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In the first five months of this year, Russia's ferrous metal export volume increased by 9.1 percent year on year to 3.36 million mt, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat). In volume terms, exports of ferroalloys ...
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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 Sweden, industrial production decreased by 3.2 percent in May this year compared to April and by 2.2 percent year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). On the other hand, the production index ...
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Germany-based steel giant ThyssenKrupp has announced that it is conducting modernization works at the converter No. 2 and the waste-heat boiler system in the Duisburg-Bruckhausen steelmaking plant. ThyssenKrupp stated that the ...
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In June this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports increased by 17.1 percent year on year and by 5.9 percent compared to May to $1.62 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry of Finance. In ...
Austria-based steelmaker voestalpine has announced that it will supply 120,000 mt of high-strength linepipe plates for Brazilian multinational Petrobras' third pipeline in the world's largest oilfield, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between ...
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Villacero, Mexico's largest steel distributor, announced this week that it has signed an agreement with Finnish steelmaker Ruukki to distribute special steel products in Mexico, marking the 30th country in which the European firm has a ...
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In the first six months of the current year, Ukrainian ferroalloy exports increased by 38.1 percent year on year to 465,271 mt, worth a total of $586.018 million, up 33.5 percent year on year, according to the data issued by Ukraine's ...
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Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky (DMKD), a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), plans to increase its production in the current month. In particular, in July DMKD plans to ...
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Prices of imported iron ore in China have continued to decline since the start of the summer, while domestic crude steel output is still at high levels amid increases in steel exports, though domestic demand for steel products has remained ...
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Swiss-headquartered resources company Ferrexpo, whose main interests are in Ukrainian iron ore assets, has announced that in the second quarter of the current year its overall iron ore pellet production decreased by 5.3 percent year on year ...
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In the January-June period this year, Ukraine-based Azovstal, a subsidiary of Ukraine's largest vertically-integrated mining and steel group Metinvest, saw a 10.6 percent decrease in its crude steel production to 2.040 million mt and a 17.3 ...
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Brazil's national statistics agency (IBGE) has reported that in May this year industrial production in the largest Latin American country decreased by 0.6 percent compared to April, declining for the third consecutive month on ...
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