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Russian Steel Congress on Industrial Safety & Environmental Protection Takes Place at Metaloinvest EMK

OEMK hosted the Second Congress of the Russian Steel Association on labour protection, industrial and environment safety, entitled Russian Steel: Safe and Green Steelmaking. Congress participants included representatives of the World Steel Association and the largest Russian companies in the steelmaking industry and other sectors of the economy: Gazprom Neft, EVRAZ, Metalloinvest, Mechel, MMK, NLMK…

LIVE FUTURES REPORT 13/09: LME copper price nears $6,000 per tonne in 2% upturn; tin below $17,000

The three-month copper price on the London Metal Exchange was higher at the close of trading on Friday September 13, with the price near the $6,000 per tonne resistance level and closing at its highest level since July 29, while tin’s outright price fell over the afternoon. Copper futures closed at $5,974.50 per tonne in…

Quality Circles help cut down costs & create healthy work environment – CMD RINL

Mr PK Rath CMD of RINL inaugurated the two day 19th Chapter Convention on Quality Concepts organized by Quality Circle Forum of India in Visakhapatnam. The theme was Quality concepts for cultural breakthrough. Speaking on this occasion, Mr Rath mentioned that a quality-focused culture creates a healthy work environment and leads to satisfied customers and…

GERMANY FERROUS SCRAP: Domestic prices fall in Sept on poor finished steel demand, lower int’l market

Steelmakers in Germany have settled their monthly scrap contracts for September at prices that were down by an average of €25 ($28) per tonne from last month, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday September 13. Fastmarkets’ monthly price assessment for steel scrap No E3 (old thick steel scrap) domestic, delivered mill Germany, was at €225-235 per…

MMK Continues Robotisation of Business Processes

As part of the project to implement business process automation at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, MMK-Informservice has entered into a general partnership agreement with UiPath, a world leader in producing software platforms for robotic process automation. The partnership will improve the efficiency of MMK’s large-scale project to automate business processes by reducing the…

WEEKLY SCRAP WRAP: Global scrap markets follow Turkeys move downward

Global ferrous scrap prices continued to move down across all the major scrap markets during the week ended Friday September 13, with buyers postponing buying activity in the expectation of securing lower prices after prices fell in Turkey, turning worldwide sentiment negative. Fresh Turkey bookings continue downward price trend US prices fall on recent cargoes…

USITC Keeps AD Duty on Imports of Diffusion-Annealed, Nickel-Plated Flat-Rolled Steel Products from Japan

The US International Trade Commission has determined that revoking the existing antidumping order on imports of diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat-rolled steel products from Japan would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time. As a result of the Commission’s affirmative determination, the existing antidumping duty order on imports…

Brazilian slab export prices down on US flat-steel weakness

Export prices of Brazilian slab dropped this week because of weakness in the flat steel market in the United States and competition from other suppliers. Fastmarkets’ weekly price of steel slab export, fob main port Brazil, was $420-435 per tonne on Friday September 13, down by $10-15 from $430-450 per tonne fob a week earlier.…