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IISI Iron and Crude Steel Production 2007

February 29, 2008

You may be interested to know that you can find preliminary IISI iron and crude steel production statistics for 2007 by country on the Japan Iron and Steel Federation Website. These statistics aren’t available on the IISI website and aren’t usually published in the IISI Steel Statistical Yearbook until July.

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2008 iron ore prices to increase by 65%

February 18, 2008

CVRD, the largest producer of iron ore in the world, has just reached an agreement with some of the major Asian steel producers  to increase 2008 benchmark iron ore prices by 65%  to 71%.   A typical integrated steel maker uses roughly 1.4 short tons of iron ore pellets to produce a short ton of hot […]

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December US long products imports reach record low

February 18, 2008

For those of you who are following US long products imports, December actual import figures have now been published, and are almost 30,000 short tons less than November imports, confirming low import licenses collected for the month. You can view the updated data from my earlier post related to January import licenses.

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US long products imports rebound

February 14, 2008

US long products imports rose in January for the first time since June 2007, based on SIMA US import licenses. As you can see in the spreadsheet below, an increase in rebar and beam import licenses is driving the rebound. Rebar licenses almost tripled in Jan 08 compared to the Dec 07, but are still […]

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ThyssenKrupp company profile, October 2007

February 5, 2008

In the continuing NoS series of gathering profiles of some of the largest steel companies in the world, here’s an extremely comprehensive profile of ThyssenKrupp Steel made by the company itself in October of 2007. There are details of the parent corporation, but much more detailed information about the two main steelmaking groups, carbon & […]

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Canada steel shipments 2007

February 1, 2008

Statistics Canada has just released the November 2007 monthly steel shipment report. Shipments of steel mill products by Canadian mills were just shy of 13.7 million metric tonnes through November. This is very similar to 2006, when shipments through November were slightly above 13.7 million metric tonnes. We maintain a link to these monthly Stats […]

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