Steel Industry News - Africa

Ghosts of Gukurahundi still haunt survivors, as Zimbabwe officials ...
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:36:00 GMT
Retired Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) plant worker Win Moyo was 41 when the Fifth Brigade entered the ZISCO workers residences in 1981 from the Munyati River in Midlands province


Chinese firm commissions 80-mln-USD ceramic tiles factory in ...
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:45:00 GMT
China's Fujian Sentuo Steel on Wednesday commissioned an 80-million-US dollar ceramic tiles manufacturing company in Tema, 25 km east of Ghana's capital Accra, which is believed to help reduce the


EDITORIAL COMMENT: Zisco revival must be a matter of urgency
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:39:00 GMT
The recent announcement that the $1 billion Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) project is on ice is sad news especially for people in the Midlands Province who had pinned their hopes on the


Fresh Zisco deal hangs in the balance
Tue, 26 Feb 2019 04:39:00 GMT
The $1 billion Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) project is on ice pending Government and the Chinese investor R and F reconciling a number of issues underpinning the deal, a Cabinet


Shareholding squabbles scuttle Zisco deal
Sat, 23 Feb 2019 01:21:00 GMT
A $1 BILLION Chinese deal to resuscitate the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel) is facing collapse after government changed its shareholding offer to Zhang Li, the president of Guangzhou


Fare thee well dear Comrade Callistus Dingiswayo Ndlovu
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:22:00 GMT
He insisted that I go to Zisco Steel and meet Dr Kuhn because he was looking for engineers in different departments at Zisco. An interview was conducted in the German language because Dr Kuhn was from


European Commission implements definitive steel safeguard measures
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT
The European Commission (EC) has now formalised its definitive safeguard measures on imports of steel products. These measures take effect as from 2 February and replace the provisional ones in place since July 2018, the EC says in an announcement monitored byKallanish. The measures, both provisional and definitive, have been introduced as part of


Defunct Zisco blocking $200m ZimCoke investment
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 22:59:00 GMT
THE defunct Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel ... town council authorising the subdivision and transfer of ownership. Since then the Zisco Board Chairman, Mr (Nyasha) Makuvise has failed to


Plan to revive Byo falters
Sun, 13 Jan 2019 08:51:00 GMT
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), the Cold Storage Company (CSC), Merlin, Paramount Garments and the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) were among companies that were targeted for


From Great Zimbabwe to Zimbabwe Ruins with Emmerson Dambudzo ...
Thu, 10 Jan 2019 04:34:00 GMT
And continuously commandeered off-route for Mugabe liability flights. VaMapondera vakaponda ZISCO STEEL zvebasa kuKweKwe uko Gross incompetence and pick-pocketing all-over. The public service ...


Glasenberg eyes successor as Glencore readies new generation
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT
Glasenberg, a workaholic, straight-talking South African who has become the public face of the commodity trading industry, has led Glencore for nearly


Buyanga backs Zimbabwe parastatal reforms
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 06:31:00 GMT
This week, Zimbabwe said it was considering submissions on Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO) and Chemplex Corporation. Speaking at the weekly cabinet press briefing on Tuesday, actin ...


Hold govt to account on mega deals, says Mudenda
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 17:17:00 GMT
If Zisco does not arise, the industrialisation in terms of steel trade will not happen, he said while giving his keynote address at the 2018 pre-budget seminar held in Bulawayo yesterday. Mudenda sai...


German bank wants guarantee over Zisco debt
Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:35:00 GMT
German Development Bank (KfW) has engaged Government to guarantee the sovereignty of the $225 million debt, which it is owed by the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel) in case ZimCoke ...


Government unhappy with Zisco progress
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:14:00 GMT
GOVERNMENT has expressed displeasure on the pace of implementation by a potential investor towards revival of the defunct steel maker, Zisco. Industry and Commerce Minister Nqobizitha Ndlovu said this ...


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