Metallurgy news

• Russian swordsman hired JP Morgan for the implementation of coal assets in the USA - Reuters One of the largest mining companies in Russia Mechel, under the yoke of nine billion debts, hired the JP Morgan investment bank to sell its American assets. Reuters writes about this today. In 2009, Mechel acquired Bluestone from private owners for $ 425 million and bought its shares from a... 29.06.2013  11:41

• ThyssenkrupP restarts a domain furnace in Brazil On Friday, at the Brazilian Metallurgical Plant, THYSSENKRUPP began preparations for launching a domain furnace stopped last month due to the claims of the environmental services of Rio de Janeiro. In addition to the blast furnace, the company had to stop cokesochemical production. During the... 29.06.2013  11:20

• ArcelorMittal Dofasco turns off the coxochemical production in Canada The world leader in production became ArcelorMittal announced his employees about the closure of his largest Dofasco coke factory in Canadian Hamilton, Ontario. The company is considering the transition to the production of plastic products and, in particular, evaluates the prospects for... 29.06.2013  11:10

• Metallurgical companies in Europe are looking forward to the death of the Italian Ilva plant in Taranto - Trade Unions The remaining metallurgical companies in Europe are only waiting for the death of factories in Pimbino and Taranto to steal their customers, says Mirko Lami, a representative of trade unions in Pimbino. The leaders of the trade unions turned this week to the Italian government with the demands... 29.06.2013  10:13

• STEMCOR closes WSK Stahlhandels GmbH STEMCOR, one of the world's largest metal traders, announced the closure of WSK Stahlhandels GmbH, its special trade agent in import steel in Germany. The company will be closed on June 30, 2013. These changes will affect 27 employees, most of whom are busy in Nuremberg. Over the past few... 29.06.2013  10:12

• China macroeconomic indicators increased by 12.3% According to statistics published by the National Bureau of China statistics, the total profit of industrial enterprises increased by at least 12.3% in annual calculus and reached 2.08 trillion in the yuan. In the first five months of this year. Moreover, growth in May was higher than in the first... 28.06.2013  17:33

• Black metals export revenue decreased by 12 percent In the first five months, first in 2013, Ukrainian metallurgical companies reduced export revenues from the sale of ferrous metals to 6 billion 155 million dollars, which is 12.5 percent less than the APPG-2012. This is stated in the materials of the State Customs Service of Ukraine. At the same... 28.06.2013  17:06

• Hot -rolled prices began to rise - Steelbenchmarker According to the last report of the Steelbenchmarker system produced twice a month, the prices for hot rental in the United States as of June 24 rose 2.5 percent, which is $ 668 per ton, and this is a second consistent increase in prices. The price of hot rental in Western Europe increased by 0.8... 28.06.2013  12:17

• The European Commission plans to reanimate the metallurgical industry of Great Britain The English branch of the European Association of Steel manufacturers (Eurofer), based in the city of the Scanthropus, approved the plan of the European Commission for the salvation of the steel industry of Great Britain. The European plan of action was the first comprehensive attempt to stop... 27.06.2013  12:42

• Australia will suffer more than others from slowing the Chinese economy Today's Australia is happy to boast of the AAA sovereign rating before the world community, however, the main engine of its economy - the demand from China - begins to junk. Bloomberg writes about this today. Not a single country is more vulnerable to a decline in China as Australia rich in... 27.06.2013  12:24