Metallurgy news

• Steel consumption in Europe will fall by at least 40 million tons - Eurometal Speaking at the international day of steel trading organized by STSG-Eurometal in Milan on April 4, 2013, EUROMETAL CEO Mr. Jurgen Nusser gave a negative forecast for the European market this year. In particular, he stated that the fall of demand by 9.5% what happened in 2012 will continue. The... 08.04.2013  08:54

• The Government of Ukraine introduced restrictions on the import of metallurgical coke into the country From April 4 to the end of 2013, it was forbidden to import coke and semicondes to Ukraine, and also limited the import of a coke of the angle with a volume of 10 million 200 thousand tons. This was reported by the Ukrkox Association. Co -coal quota includes 2 million 500 thousand tons of coal... 08.04.2013  08:27

• A strong increase in demand for steel from the ASEAN countries is expected after their integration into the economic union After the start of the Asian financial crisis in 1977, the demand for steel in the countries of ASEAN fell from a high level of 33 million 600 thousand tons in 1996 almost doubles to only 19 million 500 thousand tons in 1998. After that, the region recovered from the blow in four years and returned... 07.04.2013  10:56

• 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 varietal metal rolling and rails... 07.04.2013  10:35

• 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 the lack of scrap supplies... 06.04.2013  12:29

• 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 thousand tons of metal products,... 06.04.2013  12:10

• 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 both annual and monthly... 06.04.2013  11:52

• 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 Sam Walsh consistently gets... 06.04.2013  11:24

• 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 Republic shows that the country... 06.04.2013  11:05

• 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 fell by 14.1% - up to 3... 05.04.2013  15:48