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Over the coming few days, the local government of Tangshan city, China’s top steel producing base in Hebei province, intends to strengthen emergency measures already in place to reduce pollution over the city, Mysteel Global has learned, as a response to warnings from both the central and local meteorological administrations about air quality deteriorating.
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Chinese steel market participants are divided on whether steel mills in the “2+26” cities in North China will definitely face tougher restrictions from their local authorities in the upcoming winter over November-March 2020 just because Beijing has set a higher bar for air pollution reduction, targeting to reduce the average PM2.5 density by 4% on year for the 2019 winter from last year’s 3% reduction.
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Odisha govt. has today (i.e 14th Oct 2019) invited bids for grant of ten more iron and manganese ore mining leases via Phase II. In this phase few key iron ore mining leases that are being auctioned include - Rungta's Jajang mine, Serajuddin Balda block, GS Mishra & Sons & BICO.
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The government of Tangshan city in North China’s Hebei province, the country’s largest steel production base, is activating second-level emergency measures to combat air pollution due to deteriorating air quality, according to a city government order issued on Tuesday afternoon which warned of severer production restrictions being slapped on local industries including steelmakers.
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For steel mills in Tangshan, the top steel producing city in North China’s Hebei province, it must seem like they can’t even think about cranking production back up before they’re being told to apply the brakes again. Under a new order issued by the Tangshan city government on Wednesday, no sooner had the mills been freed from an earlier round of intensive production curbs on October 3 than they’re being ordered to restrict part of their operations again from Thursday until month’s end.
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Brazil’s National Mining Agency (ANM) announced at around 3pm (local time) on October 9 to ban 54 dams that did not submit or certify the Stability Condition Declarations (DCE) by September 30, but most of them are “inactive dams”, according to its release in Portuguese.
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According to data maintained with SteelMint, Indian pellet export volumes in Sep'19 were recorded at 1.11 MnT, down 22% on monthly basis as against 1.42 MnT a month ago.
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China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) believes the major cause of frequent atmospheric pollution alerts in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in North China is still excessive emissions from industry which far exceed the environment’s carrying capacity, according to the latest report released on the ministry’s official website on September 23.
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Authorities in charge of environmental protection in major industrial cities in North China’s Shanxi, including Changzhi, Linfen, Lvliang, Jinzhong, Jincheng, Yuncheng and Taiyuan, have officially announced emergency measures beginning September 25 aimed at reducing air pollution, according to notifications seen by Mysteel Global.
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Emergency production curbs now impacting the operations of steel producers in North China’s Hebei province, the top steel producing province, have been quickly expanded to other key steel production bases nationwide including East China’s Jiangsu and Shandong provinces, North China’s Shanxi and Central China’s Henan, Mysteel Global learned on Wednesday.
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Nearly 200 steel re-rollers in Tangshan, China’s top steel producing city in North China’s Hebei province, have been ordered to halt operations as poor air quality was predicted beginning from September 24 until early October, market sources confirmed on September 24.
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Mysteel’s HRB400 20mm dia rebar benchmark price in China had declined for the fourth day in a row and at a faster rate since Thursday, down a total of Yuan 48/tonne ($6.8/t) in the recent two days to Yuan 3,844/t including the 13% VAT as of Friday, as the hope for substantial supply reduction in winter months amid restrictions have been dashed, market sources shared on Friday.
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Bangladesh is expected to see its demand for steel and therefore steel scrap grow steadily amid the South Asian country’s strong domestic economic growth and its programme of infrastructure construction, Sanjoy Kumar Ghosh, senior manager, Supply Chain Management at Chittagong-based long steel maker BSRM Group of Companies, shared on August 29 at SteelMint’s 4th Steel Scrap, Billet, and DRI Trade Summit in Bangkok, Thailand.
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East China’s Jiangsu province, the country’s second largest steel producing province, is showing its determination to control air pollution by pledging to suspend operations at any steelmaker which fails to meet the ultra-low emission standards which the central government has set for China’s steel industry from this October.
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If the exterior environment remains the same next year, the steel market in Turkey – the world’s largest scrap importer – will probably remain roughly the same as in 2019, Ahmet Isik Kunt, raw material purchasing manager at Istanbul-headquartered steelmaker Çolakoğlu Metalurji A.Ş. told SteelMint’s 4th Steel Scrap, Billet, and DRI Trade Summit in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Japan’s steel scrap exports are expected to grow 25-30% on year in 2020 as the country’s domestic demand is likely to decline while its obsolete scrap production remains at a steady pace, said Arshdeep Singh, director of Singapore-based trading firm Vital Solutions, at SteelMint’s 4th Steel Scrap, Billet, and DRI Trade Summit in Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday.
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The China Association of Metallurgical Utilization (CAMU) is lobbying the central government in Beijing for steel scrap to be removed from the list of foreign solid waste materials under import restrictions so as to facilitate higher scrap utilization in steelmaking, Li Shubin, CAMU executive vice president, disclosed at a conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 27.
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Tangshan, China’s largest steelmaking city in North China’s Hebei province, plans more production restrictions on industrial enterprises including steel producers and coke plants over September 1-October 4 in the city’s ongoing battle against pollution, according to a document outlining the draft proposal seen by Mysteel. The cuts are not as harsh as some had feared, however.
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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.
