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The cooling of steel demand now that winter has taken hold across most parts of China has led many more steelmakers to announce maintenance plans this month, Mysteel has learned from market sources.
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Other than the steel industry, coking industry has been a primary target in Beijing’s battle against air pollution too for 2018, as China’s central government has intensified the efforts in the aspect to improve the air quality in the core Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
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Feng Hsin Steel, Taiwan’s largest rebar producer headquartered in Taichung, Central Taiwan, has decided to roll over its domestic sales prices for rebar and its procurement prices for locally-sourced scrap for the current August 27-31 week after a cut of TWD 200/tonne ($6.5/t) for both prices last week, a company official told Mysteel on August 28.
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Mysteel’s latest survey released on August 17 showed that the capacity utilization rate of blast furnaces at 247 Chinese steel plants regularly checked inched up by a tiny 0.04 percentage point on week during the week of August 10-16 to 79.16%.
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Most iron ore mines in Huoqiu, Central China’s Anhui province, have been on halt since July 25 amid the safety and environmental protection inspections, and the resumption dates remain unclear, market sources and a local government official confirmed.
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Feng Hsin Steel, Taiwan’s largest rebar producer, will be idling upstream and downstream facilities at its Taichung city works in Central Taiwan over the coming few weeks to undertake annual maintenance while the usual curbs on industrial electricity use are in force over summer, a company official has confirmed.
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Jiangxi PXSteel Industrial Co (Pinggang), a leading construction steel producer in East China’s Jiangxi province, has suspended its blast furnaces and sintering plants for five days starting August 6 as the steel mill is going through environmental protection inspections, according to Mysteel’s market monitoring.
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Merchant coke producers in Xuzhou, a major production base for the material in East China’s Jiangsu province, are firing up their plants once more after being idled for as long as two months while their pollution control systems were inspected.
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The economic impact from the torrential rains which caused massive devastation to many parts of western Japan late last week and into the weekend is expected to be huge though steelmakers with plants in the affected areas seem to be escaped the worst.
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Shagang Group, China's largest privately-owned steelmaker headquartered in Zhangjiagang city, East China's Jiangsu province, has raised its rebar list price for the third time, up another Yuan 100/tonne ($15.5/t) for sales during June 21-30, according to the company's latest pricing policy released on June 21.
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China's domestic steel prices are likely to be rangebound in the near term throughout June, and supplies have been on the rise, offsetting the efforts by the Chinese mills and traders in destocking, market sources shared on May 15.
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Blast furnace (BF) capacity utilization across 247 steel mills nationwide surveyed by Mysteel moved up further by 1.33 percentage points on week to 79.12%, Mysteel's latest survey published on May 11 indicated. Mills surveyed cited the further resumption of production while they could enjoy healthy profits.
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China Steel Corporation (CSC), Taiwan's top steel producer headquartered in Kaohsiung, South Taiwan, is undertaking an extensive revamp of a hot stove feeding hot air to the No.3 blast furnace, a company official confirmed on May 11.
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Steel mills in East China's Jiangsu province are bracing themselves for operations' disruption from the one-month environmental protection inspection the provincial authority to proceed in eight cities along the Yangtze River since April 24, Mysteel understands from the market sources.
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Chinese domestic prices of rebar should continue tracking upward over the short term as market players envisage the robust demand for the construction steel product continuing to linger, market sources shared on April 24. But they warned that prices were unlikely to refresh last December's 74-month high anytime soon.
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Australia iron ore shipments recorded 17.8 million tonnes for the week of March 26-April 1, up 31.6% or 4.3 million tonnes on week, according to latest Mysteel survey on April 4.
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China's iron ore imports in February dropped by 16.08 million tonnes or by 16% month on month to 84.27 million tonnes, according to the latest statistics released by the country's General Administration of Customs on March 8.
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The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the steel industry in North China's Hebei province, the country's core steel production base, dropped by 2.24 basis points month on month to 47.6 in February, falling below the threshold of 50 for the fifth consecutive month, according to a March 1 release by Hebei Metallurgical Industry Association.
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Daily crude steel output among China's major steel mills reverted down by 1.26% or 22,500 tonnes/day from January 11-20 to around 1.76 million t/d over January 21-31, according to the latest statistics released by the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) on February 12.
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A coal gas leak early Monday morning at SGIS Songshan, the Shenzhen-listed arm of China Baowu Group member Guangdong Shaoguan Iron & Steel Group (Shaogang) in South China, claimed the lives of eight people working nearby and hospitalized ten more, according to a company post at noon on February 5.
