Industrial News

  • Brazilian domestic flat steel prices up on-demand recovery, low imports

    Brazilian domestic flat steel prices up on-demand recovery, low imports

    Flat steel prices in the Brazilian domestic market have increased in August because of recovering steel demand and high import prices, with further price rises to be imposed next month, Fastmarkets heard on Monday, August 17. Producers have fully applied the previously announced price increases f...
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  • With weak demand recovery and huge losses, Nippon Steel will continue to reduce production

    With weak demand recovery and huge losses, Nippon Steel will continue to reduce production

    On August 4, Japan’s largest steel producer, Nippon Steel, announced its first-quarter financial report for the 2020 fiscal year. According to the financial report data, the crude steel output of Nippon Steel in the second quarter of 2020 is about 8.3 million tons, a year-on-year decrease o...
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  • 2020 authoritative ranking of global oil companies released

    2020 authoritative ranking of global oil companies released

    On August 10th, “Fortune” magazine released this year’s latest Fortune 500 list. This is the 26th consecutive year that the magazine has published the ranking of global companies. In this year’s ranking, the most interesting change is that Chinese companies have achieved a...
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  • China steel demand to decline to 850 mln t in 2025

    China steel demand to decline to 850 mln t in 2025

    China’s domestic steel demand is expected to decline gradually in the years to come from 895 million tonnes in 2019 to 850 million tonnes in 2025, and high steel supply will impose a persistent pressure on the domestic steel market, Li Xinchuang, chief engineer of the China Metallurgical Industry...
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  • China becomes net steel importer first time in 11 years in June

    China becomes net steel importer first time in 11 years in June

    China became a net importer of steel for the first time in 11 years in June, despite record daily crude steel production during the month. This indicates the extent of China’s stimulus-fueled economic recovery, which has supported rising domestic steel prices, while other markets are still ...
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  • Brazil’s steelmakers say U.S. is pressuring to lower export quotas

    Brazil’s steelmakers say U.S. is pressuring to lower export quotas

    Brazilian steelmakers’ trade group Labr on Monday said the United States is pressuring Brazil to reduce its exports of unfinished steel, part of a long fight between both countries. “They have threatened us,” Labr President Marco Polo said of the United States. “If we don’t agree to tariffs they ...
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