According to statistics released by the Korea Iron & Steel Association (KOSA), Korea imported 100,600 tons of heavy plates in February, slumping by 69% year on year. It’s analyzed that weak demand for the Chinese materials from ...
Tags: Heavy Plate Imports, Heavy Plate, Steel
The prices of carbon steel medium-heavy plate in South Europe keep surging gradually by local mills owing to booming global steel market. So far, the ex-work price in Italy is around US$690/mt. The price of imported slab in Europe ...
Reportedly, the Chinese Hebei Steel released its price policy for March. The company decided to raise its prices for hot rolled plates/coils and medium heavy plates by RMB180/ton and it hiked its prices for cold rolled sheets/coils by ...
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Reportedly Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. has planned to invest US$766 million in acquisition of Metals USA Holdings Corp. in attempt to develop high-margin business of cutting and customizing metals. The acquisition of Metals USA will ...
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According to statistics, Korea imported 274,330 tons of heavy plates in January, down by 0.8% from a month ago. Among them, 175,731 tons were imported from China, rising by 14.5% and 91,299 tons were from Japan, decreasing by 22.8%, ...
According to statistics released by the Japan Iron & Steel Federation (JISF), Japan’s steel imports totaled 8.04 million tons in 2012, falling by 3.1% from a year ago. Among them, 4.46 million tons were at carbon steel, down ...
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It’s reported that the Brazilian steelmakers are seeking to raise the prices of steel flat products in order to improve profits. The Brazilian steel industry stayed in difficult situation in 2012 due to slow economy in international ...
It’s reported that Brazilian Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais (Usiminas) announced to supply special heavy plates to energy tubular maker TenarisConfab for a Petrobras project to explore oil extraction in Brazil's deep-sea pre-salt ...
Tags: drilling pipe industry, Petrobras project, energy tubular maker
ArcelorMittal's Romanian unit ArcelorMittal Galati has announced that it plans to increase its presence in the Romanian wind turbine market by adjusting its production according to the requirements of the industry and by improving service ...
According to statistics, Japan’s exports of heavy plates totaled 247,452 tons in last November, falling by 11% from a month ago and decreasing by 20% year on year. In last November, the country’s export prices of heavy ...
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Korea’s dealer inventory of steel flat products has fallen for consecutive four months. According to statistics released by the Korea Iron & Steel Association (KOSA), the dealer inventory of steel flat products totaled 1.179 million ...
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Reportedly, Belgian Oxybel, the Belgian coil and plate processor and distributor 100% owned by ArcelorMittal, has announced to shutdown at its site in l'Ile Monsin, near Liège because the lack of demand and weak market conditions at ...
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It's reported that Korea's demand for heavy plates would decrease substantially this year. According to estimates made by Posco Research Institute (Posri), Korea's demand for heavy plates might decrease to 9.78 million tons in 2013, the ...
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According to data released by the Specialty Steel Industry of North America, the US's stainless steel import penetration rose in the first 10 months of 2012. In the first 10 months of 2012, the country's imports of stainless steel strops ...
The Chinese steel giant Wuhan Iron and Steel Group (Wisco) announced to leave its list prices for medium heavy plates unchanged for February. Taiwanese dealers said that Wisco’s list prices of medium heavy plates usually reflect ...
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