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Nippon Steel, Japan’s largest integrated steelmaker, has decided to restart another banked blast furnace, announcing on December 4 that a large unit north of Tokyo will be restarted in late January to lift hot metal supply in response to improving steel demand from auto manufacturers.
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Nippon Steel Engineering, the engineering arm of Japan’s largest steel producer, has received an order from Taiwan’s China Steel Corp to supply a large Coke Dry Quenching (CDQ) plant, NSE announced on November 26.
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Nippon Steel, Japan’s largest integrated mill, has restarted a banked blast furnace located in the Kimitsu Area of its East Nippon Works in Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo, to respond to improving steel demand from consumers, especially auto makers.
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JFE Steel, Japan’s second largest integrated mill, will start relining the No.6 blast furnace at the Chiba area of its East Japan Works much sooner than the mill had initially scheduled, saying that by starting the work early it can start cutting production costs sooner, JFE announced on November 9.
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Nippon Steel, Japan’s largest integrated mill, have been mulling the restart of two idled blast furnaces in the second half of fiscal 2020 (October 2020-March 2021) on noting the steady improvement in steel demand from the country’s auto sector, a Nippon Steel official confirmed on September 4.
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Nippon Steel, Japan’s largest integrated mill, has reignited the halted blast furnace with an inner volume of 2,650 cu meters on August 20 at its Kure area of Setouchi Works in western Japan after a halt over August 14-19, and its steel production has not been affected much, a company official confirmed on August 28.
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Japan’s ferrous scrap prices for both domestic sales and exports rose another $5/t on week over July 27-31, or up for the fourth week as inquiries from the overseas customers remained active, offsetting the lull from the domestic market with many mill under the summer maintenance, traders in Tokyo and Nagoya in central Japan shared.
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China’s consumption of steel with construction steel in particular is expected to recover in August from the rainy and flooded July, partly due to the catch-up of progress at the construction sites in South and East China after the adverse weather, Mysteel predicted in its latest monthly report.
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A quick look at how China's economy and steel market performed in the first half of 2020.
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Nippon Steel, Japan’s largest integrated mill, has suspended 30% of its molten iron capacity by having halted some of its blast furnaces as planned, according to a company official on July 22.
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Anna and Olivia will be discussing some of the key topics discussed during the 2020 SEAISI e-Conference, ASEAN's flagship steel industry conference.
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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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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.
