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Starting this month, most steel producers in Tangshan, China’s top steel producing city in North China’s Hebei province, could find themselves forced to halt some facilities including blast furnaces and sintering machines perhaps for as long as three months, as part of production restrictions on industrial enterprises to control pollution and improve air quality, according to a draft seen by Mysteel Global.
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High
steel output and stocks to persist in H2
The unsolvable
uncertainties in demand will only lead to the rises in finished steel
inventories on the zealous output, which will test the Chinese steel market
resilience in the latter half of 2020, keeping the market participants always
on their
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Nippon Steel, Japan’s largest integrated mill, has delayed the banking of No.2 furnace at its Kimitsu works near Tokyo by about a month until mid-June, as it has not been able to fulfill the signed contracts by mid-May, the company’s spokeswoman explained on June 4.
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Shagang Group, China’s largest private steelmaker headquartered in East China’s Jiangsu province plans to halt steel making and rolling facilities including blast furnaces and electric arc furnaces (EAF) since middle April for regular maintenance, a Shagang official confirmed to Mysteel Global on April 9.
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Rebar rolling capacity utilization rate at the 22 sampled steel producers in Jiangsu of East China, the country’s largest rebar production base, fell to 40.2% as of February 18, a record low since March 2015, as they had been forced to scaled down production amid high stocks and constraints of raw materials supply and manpower amid the ongoing fight against Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (NCP), according to a Mysteel’ market survey.
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Shagang Group, China’s largest privately-owned steel producer and top rebar mill in East China’s Jiangsu province have idled two rebar rolling lines for maintenance according to the original schedule instead of any forced move by the ongoing battle against the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (NCP), a company official reiterated on Friday.
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A number of Chinese steel producers have opted to scale down their crude steel production by conducting maintenance on their furnaces as the counter measure against the market quietness because of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, Mysteel understood from related surveys.
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The softening of market demand for steel in winter, particularly for long products, has encouraged Chinese steelmakers to arrange intensive maintenance programmes, market sources shared on Friday, with stoppages already begun at some producers.
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Fourteen major steelmakers in North China’s Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region which Mysteel regularly monitors plan to deliver fewer long steel products to the local physical market this month, according to the results of a study Mysteel released on Wednesday. Many among the group are still observing production restrictions or have stopped lines for normal maintenance, so they anticipate their steel output will be reduced this month.
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A growing number of Chinese steelmakers have recently joined the others announcing their maintenance plans on their steelmaking or rolling facilities starting July as the country has been into the hot summer when the demand for steel usually subsides.
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As of March 4, a total of 27 Chinese steel producers nationwide were known to have or will start their regular minor or major maintenance on their facilities in March, lasting from a week to as long as 90 days, which is expected to slow down the flow of finished steel supplies into the Chinese market this month, market sources shared on Tuesday.
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After lagging behind their counterparts in most other provinces by several weeks, steelmakers in North China’s Shanxi province have launched a maintenance blitz that will see all nine of the province’s major steel producers overhauling blast furnaces and rolling facilities from late February through until early March, company data collected by Mysteel shows.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
