Steel Times International News
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Breakdown and planned maintenance outage to have negative effect on Q4 2016 and Q1 2017 results
Steel production at SSAB's Oxelösund plant in Sweden will restart one and a half weeks later than scheduled due to a breakdown at the rolling mill a planned maintenance outage.
20 December 2016 -
Chinese exports to Latin America up by 1%
Comparing January to October 2016 with the same period last year (2015), the Latin American Steel Association (Alacero) claims that Chinese steel exports to the world – including long steel, flat steel and seamless pipes – increased by 1%. The figure also includes steel derivatives, such as wire products and welded tubes.
14 December 2016 -
US steel shipments up 0.9% says AISI
US steel mills shipped 6.8Mt (net tons) of steel in October 2016, a rise of 0.9% on September 2016 but a decrease of 7.3% when compared with October 2015 (7.3Mt).
14 December 2016 -
China requests consultation over USA’s ‘non-market economy’ methodology
The Chinese government has requested consultations with the United States at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) regarding the use of the ‘non-market economy’ (NME) methodology in anti-dumping investigations, according to US lawyers Wiley Rein.
14 December 2016 -
SSAB announces ‘smart steel’ initiative
SSAB has recently finalised an R&D project exploring the concept of SSAB SmartSteel, a digital platform enabling steel to be ‘loaded with knowledge’.
09 December 2016 -
TMK GIPI delivers casing pipes to BP Oman
TMK Gulf International Pipe Industry (TMK GIPI) LLC, part of global pipe manufacturer TMK has completed delivery of J55 casing pipes to BP Oman.
08 December 2016
