Sentences with phrase «of global steel production»

«The steel industry in China boomed from 5 percent of global steel production in the late 70s to almost 50 percent today; on the back of that surge was a voracious appetite for iron ore» he says.

Half of global steel production goes into buildings and infrastructure, which includes products such as beams and pipelines.

Not exact matches

Also helping boost steel stocks is news that the World Steel Association, which represents 160 steel producers that account for 85 % of global production, said Friday it expects steel demand will grow more than expected this steel stocks is news that the World Steel Association, which represents 160 steel producers that account for 85 % of global production, said Friday it expects steel demand will grow more than expected this Steel Association, which represents 160 steel producers that account for 85 % of global production, said Friday it expects steel demand will grow more than expected this steel producers that account for 85 % of global production, said Friday it expects steel demand will grow more than expected this steel demand will grow more than expected this year.

Worldsteel, representing more than 160 steel producers accounting for 85 percent of global production, had forecast in October that demand would rise 0.5 percent this year.

THE proposed large increases in global steel production in WA have been welcomed by the Australian gas industry as a leading indicator of improved metals demand and a sign of economic recovery in the North East Asian markets.

Notwithstanding this, Australia does look to be well placed to benefit from strong global demand for the main inputs into the production of steel.

Looking back in time, global steel production grew strongly in the 1960s and early 1970s when Japan was industrialising, but then was relatively flat for about a quarter of a century (Graph 8).

Over the past decade, growth in global steel production has again been very strong, running well ahead of that in global industrial production.

The steel industry has shed hundreds of thousands of jobs in the country in the past two decades, partly because of automation and partly because of a flood of production from China, which has driven down global prices to a level where some American mills can not compete.

«In the steel sector, free markets globally are adversely affected by substantial chronic global excess steel production led by China,» read one of the key findings of the Commerce Department's steel investigation report.

But Chinese steel production didn't slow down in response — creating a glut of steel in the global marketplace that lowered prices and threatened steel mills across the globe.

Automakers and their American consumers will bear the brunt caused by raising prices of two metals essential to the production of cars and trucks in the U.S. «The President's pending decision on tariffs and quotas for steel and aluminum trade highlights several unfortunate ironies,» said John Bozzella, President and CEO of Global Automakers.

He also observed that 40 percent of steel ends up traded, so any changes in production will have global consequences.

The amount of Nickel used in battery production, is tiny in comparison to the global consumption of the metal for the production of alloys like steel.

The estimates are also based on production data for cement, lime, ammonia and steel and emissions per country from 1970 to 2008 from version 4.2 of the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), a joint project of JRC and PBL.

«Industrial coal combustion is estimated to provide about 9 % of global emissions, mainly in small boilers, process heat for brick and lime kilns, and coke production for the steel industry.