Brazil’s long products market should face a challenging year in 2015, despite a low increase in production, domestic sales and as well as in the country’s apparent consumption, an executive at Gerdau said during the Alacero ...
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Although dwindling domestic demand and excess capacity have shrunk profit margins for most Chinese steelmakers, it has inspired some to tap overseas markets for sustained, long-term growth. Hebei Iron &Steel Co, China's second-largest ...
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Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has announced its results for the third quarter and the first nine months of the current year. According to its results, Metinvest's crude steel production decreased by 42 percent to ...
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Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the January-August period of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 46.2 million mt, up one percent as compared with the same ...
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Argentina’s crude steel production increased 0.3 percent year-over-year in September to 463,800 mt, according to the country’s steel chamber, CAA . Meanwhile, September crude steel production decreased 0.8 percent ...
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Swedish specialty steel producer SSAB has posted its financial results for the first nine months of the current year, reporting a net profit of SEK 418 million ($56.9 million), compared to a net loss of SEK 849 million in the corresponding ...
In September this year, Germany's crude steel output increased by 12.1 percent month on month to 3.51 million metric tons and decreased by three percent compared to September 2013, according to the information provided by the German steel ...
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The decade of the 1950s saw women's clothing in China lose all aesthetic significance after the founding of New China. After experiencing the Great Leap Forward [*note] and the People's Communalization Movement [*note], Chinese women's ...
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending October 18, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,822,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 75.7 percent. Production was 1,832,000 net tons in ...
Global crude steel production in September this year decreased by 0.1 percent year on year to 134.42 million metric tons, while a 0.4 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association ...
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Algerian food processor Cevital has filed a binding bid to acquire Lucchini's steelmaking plant in Piombino in Italy's Tuscany region, as announced by Lucchini on October 20. Lucchini added that special commissioner for Lucchini, Piero ...
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The European Commission has given Italy two months to address severe pollution issues at the Taranto-based Ilva steel plant, Europe's largest iron and steel works. The Commission had previously sent Italy two letters of formal notice, in ...
In the third quarter of the current year, the crude steel production of Russian steelmaker MMK Group totaled 3.381 million mt, down 0.3 percent compared to the second quarter of the year, while its crude steel output in the first nine ...
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In September this year, Japanese crude steel production was down 1.1 percent compared to the previous month, while it decreased by 0.5 percent compared to September 2013, totaling 9.24 million mt, according to the data released by the Japan ...
In September this year, Turkey's crude steel output decreased by 3.1 percent year on year and was down by 0.3 percent compared to August to 2.89 million metric tons, according to the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In ...
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