European market participants now question whether an expected domestic price rise for hot-rolled coil (HRC) will be seen, due to the emergence of competitive offers from India, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday September 4. Buyers had expected that transaction prices would move up in the first half of September, supported by a seasonal recovery in…
DetailsKorea Joon-gang Daily reported that POSCO and Hyundai Steel will not have to shut down their blast furnaces. A consultative body with members from the businesses, consumer groups and Ministry of Environment concluded Tuesday it was inevitable for steelmakers to open bleeder valves while operating their blast furnaces. If the body had concluded otherwise, the…
DetailsThe price of mesh-quality steel wire rod in the Northern European domestic market decreased this week because of poor demand, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday September 4. Fastmarkets’ weekly price assessment for steel wire rod (mesh-quality), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was €470-500 ($515-548) per tonne on Wednesday, down by €10-15 per tonne. Underlying consumption of…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih announced that on September 3, 2019the Security Service of Ukraine again visited the company to inspect the coke production facilities. It said “11 SBU representatives were admitted to the enterprise, accompanied by specialists from the Main Department of Environmental Inspection and the State Food and Beverage Service in the Dnipropetrovsk Region and…
DetailsMagnitogorsk has been excluded from the list of cities with the most polluted air in 2018, according to a report by the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Thanks to MMK’s large-scale environmental programme, the Comprehensive Air-quality Index (CAI) indicator for the city will be reduced to a low level by 2025. The draft…
DetailsA glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities. Indonesia's nickel export ban; metallurgical coal; and iron ore. -Severe market tightness may not eventuate despite Indonesia's nickel ore export ban -China may no longer be the marginal setter of seaborne coking coal prices -Iron ore likely to remain in deficit over 2019 Nickel…
DetailsThe price range for steel rebar in the domestic market in Southern Europe widened downward this week with decreasing ferrous scrap prices and falling demand for exports from customers in Northern Europe, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday September 4. Fastmarkets’ weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Southern Europe, was €460-485 ($504-531)…
DetailsTata Steel UK will supply high frequency induction line pipe for a gas condensate field in the UK central North Sea. The company will manufacture more than 55 km (34 mi) of 18-in. carrier pipe for a pipe-in-pipe system on the field at its 20-in. mill in Hartlepool, northeast England. Barry Rust, Marketing Manager, Energy…
DetailsSingapore — The steel purchasing managers' index published by northern China's Hebei province fell 0.4 basis points from the previous month to 47 points, out of 100, in August, indicating the underlying softness of China's steel market. It was the fourth consecutive monthly drop, according to the latest data released by the Hebei Metallurgical Industry…
DetailsSeaborne iron ore prices pushed up on Wednesday September 4 after looser production restrictions were confirmed for steelmakers in Tangshan. Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $91.32 per tonne, up $2.18 per tonne. 62% Fe Pilbara Blend fines, cfr Qingdao: $91.71 per tonne, up $2.18 per tonne. 62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $89.10 per…
DetailsYonhap reported that a South Korean delegation will head to India this week for talks with counterparts over India’s trade restrictions on South Korean steel and chemicals. South Korea’s foreign ministry said “A group of government officials from the South Korean foreign affairs and trade ministries will meet Sunil Kumar, an official at India’s Ministry…
DetailsChina's property sector will continue to generate healthy steel demand through 2019 Manufacturing shows signs of bottoming but unlikely to walk out of depression in the short-term Long steel will outperform flat steel in the remainder of 2019; flats margins may improve from H1 Singapore — China's property construction sector will be the major driver…
DetailsThe London Metal Exchange three-month copper price increased during morning trading on Wednesday September 4, paring back the bulk of Tuesday’s losses, while high turnover also drove tin’s outright price higher. Copper futures improved by some 1.6%, trading at an intra-morning high of $5,700 per tonne, while around 5,500 lots had been exchanged by 9am…
DetailsThe office of the large taxpayers is trying to recover 109.4 million UAH of debt from the state coal company Krasnolimanskaya. The Donetsk district administration court registered the corresponding claim on August 21. According to the State Fiscal Service, as of March 25 the company debt totaled 486.4 million UAH. In May a part of…
DetailsBeloretsk Iron and Steel Works has for the first time certified its welding wire for the welding of metal structures of lifting, transport, mining and metallurgical machinery. In particular, the welding wire with the diameter of 3 mm has been certified at the request of Uralmashzavod, the largest machine-building enterprise in Russia. The inspection of…
DetailsUskovskaya mine, a part of Raspadskaya, has commissioned a new 50-22 long face with the reserves of 1.638 million tons of coal. The length of the long face is 1700 meters. In order to prepare it for operation some 9 km of excavations have been carried out. The long face will be in development until…
DetailsIzhstal has received a positive report of international auditors on the efficiency of its quality management system, which increases the company competitiveness on the Russian and foreign markets. The audit has been carried out by TUV SUD. The company specialists have inspected electric arc and rolling shops, the material purchasing process, personnel management system, etc,…
DetailsMechel-Service has supplied over 800 tons of rebars for the construction of a unique plant in Sysert, Sverdlovsk region. This is the first plant in Russia for the past 20 years. The plant has been added to a list of priority projects in Sverdlovsk region and will become a part of a waste-free construction materials…
DetailsIn June Russia exported 26.8 thousand tons of ferrosilicon, up by 1% MoM, but down by 47.2% YoY. Deliveries to Japan grew 1.5-fold, to 12.1 thousand tons, but to the Netherlands dropped by 39%, to 4.9 thousand tons, and to Korea – by 3%, to 2.4 thousand tons. In H1 ferrosilicon exports totaled 187 thousand…
DetailsZaporizhstal CEO Rostislav Shurma supports the Chinese experience in high tech development, especially in the sphere of logistics as a tool to decrease corruption. He has visited the Yangshan Deepwater Port and called it a “port from the future”. “China has built a port with the capacity of 20 million TEU on an artificial island…
DetailsAzovstal has finished the third stage of the lighting efficiency improvement program. Under the third stage DTEK ESKO has installed some 4 thousand new LED-lamps, which save 80% of electricity. At the same time the volume of light in the shop increased. Azovstal plans to replace lamps in three more shops. Replacement of outdated lamps…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has delivered rebars for the construction of a modern housing complex of business-class Avalon Up, which includes the tallest skyscraper in Lviv. The company has already shipped over 320 tons of its metal products. The project envisages the construction of four apartment houses (19-25 floors with panoramic glazing) with underground and guest…
DetailsKyrgyzstan spends up to 12 million soms on protection of uranium tailings annually, the First Deputy Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Kubatbek Boronov announced at a meeting of the Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex and Subsoil Use. According to him, international organizations allocate funds for reclamation of uranium waste. “We allocate money from the budget…
Details“No new land was allocated to Kumtor for geological exploration. At least 16,000 hectares were allocated back in 1994 and 1997,” Karybek Ibraev, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use of Kyrgyzstan, announced. According to him, the territory of Sarychat-Ertash nature reserve is clearly set by a government decree. The…
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