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Date:2012/10/31
Brazil's steel distributors association, Inda, has disclosed that its members' steel sales fell 9.1 percent year on year to around 353,800 mt in September, decreasing by 6.6 percent compared to August. In the January-September period of the...
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Date:2012/10/29
It's reported that the average prices of Japanese H2 scrap in Kanto, Central and Kansai region were at ￥21,521/ton in the fourth week of October, remaining flat from a week ago.Among them, the average price of H2 scrap in Kanto region was at ￥22...
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Date:2012/10/31
Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced that it aims to increase its Queensland coal production capacity by 50 percent by the end of 2014. The company plans to increase its coal production capacity in Queensland from 44 million mt to 66 mill...
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Date:2012/10/29
It’s reported that the Taiwanese steel pipe makers planned to adjust the list prices for November after Chung Hung Steel’s price announcement.It’s learned that Chung Hung Steel, one of the major upstream carbon steel makers in Taiwan announced to kee...
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Date:2012/10/29
Chung Hung Steel, one of the major carbon steelmakers in Taiwan released its November list prices on October 25th.The firm decided to remain its domestic prices unchanged for November. However, it cut its export prices by US$10/ton for certain region...
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Date:2012/10/26
Michigan Seamless Tube (MST), a leading North American steel pipe produce planned to build a new No.5 pickling facility for expansion.MST intended to improve the quality of surface treatment from its existing cold drawn process for steel tubing to ex...
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Date:2012/10/26
Russia-based TMK, a major global supplier of steel pipes for the oil and gas sectors announced that its shipments of steel pipes in the first quarters of this year totaled 3.146 million tons, falling by 1.5% year on year, caused by lower sales volume...
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Date:2012/10/24
Marmon/Keystone, a North American leading distributor of pipe, tubing, and specialty bar has moves its existing service center to a larger work site in the Parque Industrial La Luz, about 20 miles from Mexico City.This new location has extended worka...
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Date:2012/10/26
The average prices of the US’s H1 scrap in Pittsburgh, Chicago and Philadelphia were at US$304.17/long ton on October 22th, 2012, remaining flat from a week ago.Also, the US H1 scrap average prices have kept unchanged for consecutive two weeks.Among ...
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Date:2012/10/24
Recently, AK Steel announced to raise the alloy surcharges for stainless steel products for November.After the adjustment, its November alloy surcharges for 304 grade stainless steel products are at US$0.7955/lb., rising by 3.8%; that for 201 grade i...
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Date:2012/10/22
It’s reported that China Steel Corp. (CSC), the largest steelmaker in Taiwan is going to release its price policy for December on October 19th.Market participants predicted that CSC would cut its list prices for steel wires and bars by NT$1,500/ton a...
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Date:2012/10/24
Recently, South Korean Hyundai Steel purchased 80,000~90,000 tons of A3 scraps from Russia with prices of US$355~US$358/ton C&F, US$20/ton lower than the US H1 scrap prices of US$375/ton C&F.Also, the Russian A3 scrap prices which are equal t...
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Date:2012/10/26
According to statistics, Russia exported around 440,000 tons of scraps in August, jumping by 40.3% year on year and up by 0.8% from a month ago, hitting the highest level since this year.In August, Turkey was the largest importer of the Russian scrap...
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Date:2012/10/22
According to statistics released by the Eurofe, the EU 27-countries exported 2.324 million tons of steel products in August, rising by 6.4% from a month ago and jumping by 20.72% year on year.Among them, 1.438 million tons were steel flat products an...
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Date:2012/10/24
According to statistics released by the Russian customs, Russia exported 625,000 tons of steel flat products in this September, rising by 8.8% year on year while falling by 9.2% year on year.In the first nine months of this year, the country’s export...
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Date:2012/10/26
According to statistics released by Federacciai, Italy’s crude steel output totaled 2.365 million tons in September, falling by 7.8% year on year and decreasing by 15.5% year on year. Also, the country’s crude steel output has dropped for consecutive...
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Date:2012/10/22
The world’s steel giant ArcelorMittal has commissioned Siemens Metals Technologies to upgrade the electric arc furnace (EAF) at its Esch-Belval steel facility for the continuous of operation in early 2013.Siemens will install equipment to improve and...
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Date:2012/10/24
According to statistics released by the Eurofer, the EU’s imports of steel products totaled 1.005 million tons in August, falling by 15.89% from a month ago and decreasing by 34.65% year on year.Among them, 839,000 tons were steel flat products and 1...
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Date:2012/10/25
Global pig iron production decreased for second straight month in September, declining to 90.04 million metric tons, slightly up by 0.85 percent compared to September 2011, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries, released by the Worl...
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Date:2012/10/22
According to the news posted on Spain-based Acerinox on October 2nd, the company decided to hike the base prices of stainless steel products by €50/ton for European market, effective immediately.It’s learned that Acerinox decided to reduce the stainl...