Iron and steel output in China in 2017 is expected to fall due to the shrinking demand of steel consumption industries and continuing efforts to cut overcapacity, according to a report. Decline in demand to limit steel production Demand ...
China's steel industry improved its profitability in the first seven months, due to rising steel prices, an industry insider said Saturday. Although sales revenues of 373 steel companies fell 11.91 percent to 1.5 trillion yuan (225 ...
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The global supply of zinc concentrates is shrinking fast, but it might take some time for the resulting tightness in zinc refined metal and, in turn higher premiums, to take hold in the market, zinc sources said. "The game changer was the ...
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs late Wednesday lowered its iron ore price forecast for 2017 by $5/dmt to $35/dmt CFR China after a faster-than-expected softening in seaborne prices. "Iron ore prices have reached our $40/dmt forecast one ...
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The North American coal industry remains negatively positioned for 2016 with thermal coal facing a slow, long-term decline and metallurgical coal prices unlikely to recover within the next 12 months, a Moody's Investors Service note said ...
In the first nine months of this year, Turkey's finished steel output increased by 1.2 percent year on year to 26.64 million metric tons, according to a report released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In the ...
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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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At the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Autumn Convention held on 27-28 October in Paris, concerns have emerged regarding a matter which only a few market players have considered with due attention so far, i.e., the volumes of steel ...
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The latest EU customs statistics show that third country imports remained on a rising trend in July and August, according to the European Steel Association (EUROFER). During the July-August period, finished steel imports of the EU rose 32 ...
In the first eight months of this year, Turkey's finished steel output increased by two percent year on year to 23.9 million metric tons, according to a report released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In the ...
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Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the January-July period of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 40.5 million mt, up one percent as compared with the same period ...
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Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Fall Conference & 71st IREPAS Meeting in Berlin, Kim Marti, international sales director of Spanish steel producer CELSA Group, said that the key risks to the global economy, such as geopolitical tensions ...
Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the first half of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 34.2 million mt, similar to the volume in the same period of 2013. The ...
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Turkish rebar producer Izmir Demir elik Sanayi A.. (IDC) has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of the current year. The company stated that the US revising its growth expectations from three percent ...
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Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) recorded crude steel production of 4.14 million tons in 2013, up 7.1 percent year-on-year according to a report this week from the National Chamber of Iron and Steel Industry (CANACERO). The ...
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