Numerical targets to reduce coal and steel production capacity have, for the first time, been set in the annual Chinese government work report. China will reduce steel production capacity this year by around 50 million metric tons and ...
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Efforts to reduce China's steel production overcapacity are forging ahead according to plan, the top economic planner said Wednesday. In a medium-term roundup of the drive, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said, in an ...
Tags: steel production, overcapacity
Rating agency Fitch predicts that China's annual steel exports are likely to fall to 70 to 80 million tons in the long term. Official data shows in 2014, China's steel exports reached 94 million tons. However, more steel production ...
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China's steel production capacity is likely to peak in 2016 as capacity is eliminated, gradually outpacing additions, Fitch Ratings has predicted. The rating agency expects China's steel production capacity to increase to about 1.17 ...
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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 ...
Tags: Chinese Steelmakers, Iron, Steel
Mexican steelmaker Industrias CH (ICH) expects to increase its steel production in line with new energy reform and growth in the automotive sector. Sergio González, chief financial officer of the company, said that the installed ...
Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will supply a 150-ton, twin RH vacuum degassing plant for the Mexican steel producer Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA). The new plant will be installed at AHMSA's ...
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China will close down 15 million mt/year outdated steel production capacity and 15 million mt/year outdated iron-making capacity before the end of 2015 in addition to capacities already specified for closure during the 12th Five Year Plan ...
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Sweden-based special steel producer Ovako has announced that the commercial court of Nanterre in France has made a decision regarding the bid concerning the assets of French engineering steel producer Ascometal in favor of the French ...
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Brazil-based Gerdau Group has announced that it has presented a preliminary proposal for the acquisition of the French special steel producer Ascometal for €41.5 million. Ascometal has three steel plants located in Hagondange, Les ...
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German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will supply a semi-continuous billet mill for Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, the new integrated steel plant Taiwan-based Formosa Group is building in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam. The produced billets ...
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On March 5, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivered his government work report during the opening meeting of the second session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, stating that in 2014 China's GDP is expected to grow by ...
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The government of China's Xinjiang autonomous region has stated that it is committed to eliminating 2.4 million mt of backward steel capacity within two years and will not approve new projects in the steel industry, according to its program ...
Tags: resolving severe overcapacity, Xinjiang, Metallurgy, Mineral&Energy
According to the Indian government's Press Information Bureau, at the 24th meeting of the National Steel Consumers' Council, Minister of Steel Shri Beni Prasad Verma said that ten steel plants are being set up in Indian state of Uttar ...
Belarus-based Byelorussian Steel Works (BMZ) has stated that the reconstruction of two important facilities has been finished at its steel melting complex. The electrical-arc furnace No. 1 and the powder-gas catching aggregate No. 1 have ...
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