Metallurgy news
Siemens will build a new railway workshop in Kazakhstan
Siemens Metals Technologies received a contract for the supply of a new rental camp from the Kazakhstani company JSC National Company Kazakan Temir Zhola. This is stated in the message of Siemens. The new rolling mill is designed to produce 430 thousand tons of…
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In the ISD complain about the lack of scrap
The acute fraud of scrap metal at the Dnieper Metallurgical Plant named after the Dzerzhinsky group of ISD led to a disruption of the production plan of steel by the converter shop. This is stated in the message of the plant. As emphasized in the DMKD statement, due to…
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The Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant increases the production of metal rolling
In April 2013, the Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant (AMC) planned to increase the production of steel by 11% and by 12% - the production of metal rolling. So, in the plans of the AMC management will be melted more than 407 thousand tons of steel and manufacture 376…
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The export of reinforcement from Turkey fell by 19% in February 2013
According to the Turkish Institute of Statistics in February 2013, the export of reinforcement amounted to 660 thousand 466 tons, which is 19.4% more than last month, but 19% less than in February 2012. However, in case of falling volumes, export income increased in…
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Rio Tinto leaves the coal industry, devoting itself to the extraction of iron ore
Rio Tinto will have to stop calling yourself a diversified conglomerate and a coal mining company. The Australian company put up almost all its coal assets for sale, trying to close a budget gap of three billion dollars that formed last year. The new CEO of RIO Tinto…
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The Metallurgical Plant of the Evraz group in the Czech Republic was stopped due to the lack of orders
Evraz Vitkovice Steel - the Czech capac board of the Russian group Evraz this Friday was stopped for an indefinite period due to the lack of demand for metal rolling. This is stated in the message of the company. The stop of metallurgical production in the Czech…
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In the first two months of 2013, the Russian Federation reduced exports and increased the import of metal rolling
In January-February, Russian metallurgical companies exported 5 million 500 thousand tons of black metal rolling, which is 6.2% less than in the same period in 2012, the Federal Customs Service (FCS of Russia) reports. The price of Russian exports of metal products…
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Brazilian CSN invests in the development of more than $ 1.5 billion in 2013
The largest metallurgical company of Brazil Companhia Sider mountain Nacional (CSN) announced that this year the volume of investment in the development and modernization of production will be $ 3 billion. "Investments provided for 2013 cover 74% of the company's total…
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45 Chinese metallurgical firms comply with the norms
China published data regarding the solution of excess production capacities of steel industry, which are present in the sector. The formation of a list of 45 Chinese metallurgical enterprises that meet the national industrial standards for the production of iron and…
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Production has become in Japan to continue to decline
In the first quarter of 2013, steel production in Japan fell, according to preliminary data by 4.1%, Bloomberg reports. This has become the biggest decline in the industry over the past year and a half. The Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry stated that the…
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