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Steelmakers and their raw materials suppliers in North China are keeping a watchful eye on Typhoon Lekima after it slammed into East China region over the weekend and wound its way north causing death and destruction. By 3 am on Tuesday morning, the typhoon was expected to be located in the Bohai Sea, east of Tianjin and south of the major iron ore port of Qinhuangdao.
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Linfen city, China’s most-polluted city in the Shanxi province, disclosed its list of key air-clearing tasks to fulfil this year on August 1 for public scrutiny and the battle will include all the key polluting sources such as steel, coke, power and non-ferrous producers.
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Wu’an city, a major production base of wire rod and medium plate in North China’s Hebei province, has decided to intensified its restrictions on local steel mills’ sintering capacities, one of the key polluting sources in the steel industry, throughout August, Mysteel Global confirmed with market sources.
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The city government in Tangshan, China’s largest steel production base in North China’s Hebei province, is reviewing a draft plan of renewed production restrictions suggested for heavy industries in the city to reduce air pollution in August, with the steel sector remaining a key target.
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China’s steel mills that can meet all the ultra-low emission requirements or in Category A will be freed from any restrictions or suspensions in the 2019 winter when emergency measures kick in, Liu Youbin, spokesperson China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), said explicitly at a press conference in Beijing on July 26.
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China is proud of its contribution to the global economy which has seen the country’s growth account for nearly one-third of global growth over the past few years, according to Hua Chunying, the spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Steel mills in Tangshan of North China’s Hebei province have been honouring the local government’s request to idle more production facilities including sintering plants and blast furnaces amid the escalated restrictions since July 21, market sources confirmed.
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Langfang city in North China’s Hebei province will become a steelmaking-free city by the end of 2019 when Wen’an Xingang Steel Co (Xingang), the last of its four steel mills moves out of its jurisdiction by then, Mysteel Global understands from market sources and local media report.
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The city government of Handan city, a major steel production base in North China’s Hebei province, is imposing a new round of temporary curbs on local steel mills’ sintering operations in some core areas over July 19-26, according to a notice released on July 19, as the forecast rise in temperature in the city over the coming few days will intensify air pollution. No mention was made of blast furnace stoppages, however.
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Tangshan government in North China’s Hebei province illustrated its resolution in battling against air pollution and getting rid of the most polluted city image recently when two managerial officials from two individual steel mills in Tangshan have been detained by the local police on the charge of disobeying the government orders on production restriction, industrial sources confirmed.
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Tangshan city, China’s top steel producing hub in North China’s Hebei province, is strengthening efforts to control air pollution and has issued elevated curbs on sources of pollution including steelmakers, coke plants, foundries and transportation to remain in force over July 21-31, according to a July 20 government announcement seen by Mysteel.
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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has recently qualified 18 domestic steel mills in its fourth “green plant” list as members of the total 611 industrial plants granted such a title, according to the MIIT release on July 18.
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Changzhi city in North China’s Shanxi province is requiring local steelmakers to trim operative steel capacity by 50%, according to a July 17 government notice seen by Mysteel Global. Similar restrictive measures are being applied to other local industries including coke and cement manufacturers as part of the city’s new strategy to improve local air quality.
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Several steel mills in Tangshan city, China’s top steel production base in North China’s Hebei province, are resuming full operations after being halted since late June, Mysteel Global learns.
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In a public notice on July 8, the Tangshan authority in North China’s Hebei named and warned those government officials whose jurisdiction having enterprises refusing to execute the government order on pollution control in the past year or so, illustrating its resolution of zero tolerance on such behaviour, Mysteel Global understands from the market sources on July 10.
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The city government of Wu’an, a major steel production base in North China’s Hebei province, has issued its official production restriction requirements for the present July-September quarter as part of the efforts to reduce air pollution, in which all 14 local steel mills are required to curtail their sintering operations and blast furnaces over July 1-August 31.
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The Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) targets to launch iron ore physical delivery by brand by the end of this year to complement the existing standardized terms so as to better serve the industrial investors, Mao Dan, manager of the Industrial Products Dept, DCE, shared on the 4th China Steel Derivatives International Conference (2019) on July 5 in Shanghai.
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A deadly tornado hit Kaiyuan city in Northeast China’s Liaoning province on the evening of July 3, severely impacting local steel trading, transportation and warehousing operations, Mysteel Global has learned. As of late Thursday, business was still disrupted.
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The most-traded October rebar contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange ended Tuesday’s daytime trading session at Yuan 4,053/tonne (Yuan 587/t), lower by Yuan 55/t from Monday’s settlement price and making for the first time since June 18 for rebar futures to head downward, Mysteel Global notes.
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Local authorities in Wu’an in North China’s Hebei province have announced a new round of production restrictions on local industrial enterprises including steel mills from July 1 in a bid to reduce pollution, according to an official notice released on June 30. The curbs will further impact the sintering and blast furnace operations of the 14 steelmakers the city hosts but as the notice gave no indication of when the restrictions might be lifted, calculating lost production is not possible, Mysteel Global notes.
