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• Shagang completes test run of high quality CA8 silicon steel hot load unit The new high-quality silicon steel project CA8 of China's Shagang steel mill in Jiangsu province successfully completed hot load testing on November 18, signaling that the first phase of this project has entered into operation, according to WISDRI Engineering and Research Ltd.Hot load tests of unit... 24.11.2025  10:00

• The Indian government is working to ease royalties for low-grade iron ore processing The Indian government is considering a proposal to charge a lower royalty rate for low-grade iron ore produced by local steel producers if they carry out enrichment, government sources said on Monday, November 24.Sources said the government is working on a proposal to charge 5% of the average... 24.11.2025  10:00

• NBS: Local Chinese rebar prices rose 0.7 percent in mid-November 2025 In mid-November (November 11-20) this year, China's average price for 20mm HRB 400E rebar increased by RMB 20.5/t ($2.9/t) or 0.7 percent to RMB 3,139.0/t ($442/t) compared with the price in early November (November 1-10), China announced. National Bureau of Statistics.During the period, average... 24.11.2025  09:00

• Stocks of basic finished steel products in China decreased by 2.5 percent in mid-November 2025 As of November 20 this year, the total domestic stocks of the five main types of finished steel products in 21 major Chinese cities totaled 8.71 million tons, a decrease of 220,000 tons, or 2.5 percent, compared with November 10, as announced by the Chinese Association of Ferrous Metallurgy... 24.11.2025  09:00

• The Board of Directors of Yuzhuralzolot (based on the results of the shareholders' meeting) consists of four representatives of the state, a representative of Gazprombank, a top manager of the company and three independent directors As stated in the documents of YUGK for shareholders, Mikhail Yurin, Deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Ivan Markov and Alexey Matushansky, heads of departments of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ilya Karpov, head of the Property Relations and... 24.11.2025  08:00

• We did it! The first release of the program “Mining and Metallurgy for Non-Miners and Non-Metallurgists” under the Re Metalica brand has taken place!Requests regularly come from companies - engineering, construction, IT and even banks planning [anticipating] their entry into the industry and wanting to und... 23.11.2025  22:00

• The robots did not survive the work at the factory - the Figure 02 robots, which were sent to the factory, began to literally fall apart on the move Iron factory workers worked 10 hours a day from Monday to Friday and their hands began to... fall off. As a bonus, the entire body and palms were terribly scratched - in the end, the developers took pity on the robots and sent them into retirement after 10 months of work, replacing them with a new... 22.11.2025  21:00

• In Russia they don’t hire 45 people - compare with Europe and discuss why this is so In Russia, specialists over 45 years of age make up about 42.5% of the working population, but only 17% of applicants in this age group are represented on the market; the average age of a Russian in 2025 is 44 years old.One of the largest players, Sberbank, has only 11% of employees over 50 years... 22.11.2025  13:00

• Metallurgical electric arc welding was also invented by Russians Nikolai Gavrilovich Slavyanov, who became the founder of electrometallurgy and arc welding, was born on May 5, 1854 in the village of Nikolskoye, Voronezh province (now Zadonsky district). He belonged to an old noble family, where the traditions of military service were passed down from generation... 22.11.2025  11:00