In 2013,Latin America's finished steel production totaled 56.4 million metric tons,one percent more than in 2012,according to Alacero,the Latin American steel association.The main finished steel producer was Brazil,with 26.3 million metric ...
Tags: Steel, crude steel, Mineral
According to the World Steel Association (worldsteel), in 2013 global crude steel output reached 1.61 billion mt, increasing by 3.5 percent on year-on-year basis. In December of the same year, world crude steel production for the 65 ...
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Swedish specialty steel producer SSAB and Finland-based steelmaker Rautaruukki have announced that they have come to an agreement to combine the two companies through SSAB making a recommended public share exchange offer amounting to SEK ...
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it has received an order from Turkish integrated long steel producer Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) to supply key components to clean the ...
Uzbekistan-based steel producer Uzmetkombinat has announced that it has modernized its steel production at a cost of $17.094 million. The modernization included construction of a steel degassing facility on a turnkey basis with a capacity ...
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A successful hot run test was carried out on January 14 on finishing units for the large-sized alloy steel bar line of Shandong-based Chinese steel producer Shouguang Juneng Special Steel Co., as announced by Beijing-based state-owned China ...
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India's finished steel consumption totaled 53.79 million mt in the first nine months of the current Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2013), with just a 0.5 percent year-on-year increase, according to provisional estimates released by ...
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Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless (NSSC), the largest stainless steel producer in Japan announced to hike its prices for stainless cold rolled coils (CRC) and plates for January contracts, in order to reflect higher raw material costs. The ...
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Shanxi Province-based Chinese stainless steel producer Taigang Stainless Steel Co., a subsidiary of Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Co. (TISCO), has announced that it plans to issue short-term bonds worth RMB 2.5 billion ($408 million) on ...
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On January 13, major Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group announced that its subsidiary Hebei-based Wuyang Iron and Steel Co. (Wuyang Steel) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai-based Baosteel Construction Co. ...
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Turkey-based special steel producer Yükselen ?elik A.?. has announced that it has acquired Istanbul-based Ramateks Metal Sanayi ve Ticaret A.?., part of Russian steelmaker Mechel. The acquired company operates in the special steel ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it has completed the upgrade of the converter and the continuous caster of German-based steel producer Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH. In order to improve the metallurgical process, the specific ...
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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 decrease its production in the current month of January. In particular, DMKD plans to ...
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Ukrainian steelmaker Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works (Alchevsk), a subsidiary of Ukrainian steel producer Industrial Union of Donbass (ISD), has announced that in 2013 it produced 3.812 million mt of finished steel products, up 9.3 percent, ...
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On January 9, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steel producer Baotou Iron and Steel (Baogang Group) announced that its rail and beam plant achieved a total output of 1.2651 million mt of steel rails in 2013, exceeding the production target for ...
Tags: Baogang Beam, Rail Plant, Steel Rail