Metallurgy news

• Baoshan Iron & Steel raised reinforcement prices According to Chinese Internet publications, the steel giant Baoshan Iron & Steel announced new vacation prices for reinforcement and welded wire. The price, as expected, was higher than October $ 40 - 50. Prices for a hot -rolled sheet and galvanizing, as well as a cold wire, remained... 05.11.2012  00:01

• The Industrial Union of Donbass launches a domain furnace in Alchevsk The Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant, which is part of the group of companies of the ISD Corporation reported about the successful completion of work on the reconstruction of the domain furnace No. 4 with a capacity of 82 thousand tons. Due to the unstable situation in steel markets, the decision... 05.11.2012  00:01

• China will maintain world leadership in the production of cast iron and steel China has been dominated by the world metallurgical industry for more than thirty years. From 1980 to 2011, the annual production volume increased by 832 million tons. The production of cast iron has grown especially strongly. So if in 1980 Chinese metallurgists produced 38 million tons of cast... 05.11.2012  00:01

• Tollying ecological rally forced the authorities of Mariupol to be nervous Today's Sunday protest against the uncontrolled pollution of the air and water of the city of Mariupol gathered about ten thousand people. This protest action has become the most crowded over the whole time. As we predicted, the elections of people's deputies, thank God, had nothing to do with the... 04.11.2012  00:01

• Copper becomes precious The production of copper in the world in January - July was lower than demand for 524 thousand tons, in comparison with a shortage of 73 thousand tons last year. Thus, the deficiency of this metal increased more than 7 times, concludes the International Copper Study Group (ICSG). The production... 04.11.2012  00:01

• Will the hryvnia collapse on Monday? Trying to extinguish the pre -election, exciting demand for the dollar, the Ukrainian National Bank for the first time in three months began to actively sell American currency. The operation to hold the course cost the regulator about 3% of the currency reserves. But the hryvnia still sank to... 04.11.2012  00:01

• Thyssenkrupp metallurgical plant in Brazil fined $ 5.2 million for air pollution The Brazilian metallurgical giant Thyssenkrupp CSA portable ecology in the town of Santa Curus was fined by the authorities by 10 million 500 thousand reactions for air pollution. If the owners of the plant do not take measures to improve the system of filtering metallurgical production,... 03.11.2012  00:01

• Mariupol Illich Mining was visited by ecologists from Germany According to the newspaper "Ilyichvevets", this week a delegation of representatives of the friendly Germany was admitted to the Ilyich plant. The German Consul General in Ukraine Klaus Tsillikens led German representatives. Among the members of the delegation, the deputy of the German parliament,... 03.11.2012  00:01

• Hurricane Sandy brought down the market on the east coast of the United States Hurricane Sandy swept along the eastern coast of America this week left behind destruction, destroyed cities and millions of people deprived of property. The authorities of Virginia and the state of Men are currently trying to return the regional business to working condition. The storm that... 03.11.2012  00:01

• Ukrainian metallurgists reduce the production of metal rolling According to the metallurgical association "Metallurgprom", the production of metal rolling in Ukraine decreased by 8%. Since the beginning of the year, Ukrainian power plants produced 22 million 260 thousand tons of metal products, against 24 million 503 thousand tons last year. The smelting... 03.11.2012  00:01