Steel Industry Health and Safety News

Sintering capacity resumes as Tangshan lifts red alert on smog
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:33:00 GMT
SHANGHAI, Mar 14 (SMM) The weather bureau of China's steel capital of Tangshan lifted the red alert on smog for two key areas, on 20:00 CST Wednesday March 13. This allowed local sintering machines


China's iron ore futures gain for 2nd day on steel demand recovery
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:41:00 GMT
The most-active construction steel rebar contract, with May expiry ... The town of Mangaratiba, in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, closed Vale's Ilha da Guaiba port terminal again due to pollution


IRON ORE DAILY: Prices rebound amid futures gains, Vale supply ...
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:24:00 GMT
In China, a visit by a deputy minister of ecology & the environment to the Tangshan steel hub led to the dismissal of a local official for poor control over air pollution, according to a Chinese mill


China iron ore futures hit lowest in March so far on steel curbs
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:34:00 GMT
Officials in 28 northern Chinese cities, including in the top steelmaking city of Tangshan, face central government evaluations at the end of March on their performance in curbing air pollution over


China's iron ore imports hit 10-month low in February on holiday ...
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 21:41:00 GMT
Tangshan, which accounts for more than 10 percent of Chinas crude steel output, ordered a level 1 smog alert from March 6 until further notice, forcing mills to cut output by 40 percent to 70


Chinas iron ore futures fall as anti-smog measures weigh
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:03:00 GMT
Prices of Chinas steel-making raw materials dropped on Wednesday after the top steelmaking city of Tangshan maintained the highest smog alert amid unfavourable weather conditions, while the


China's iron ore futures fall as anti-smog measures weigh
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:05:00 GMT
Prices of China's steel-making raw materials dropped on Wednesday after the top steelmaking city of Tangshan maintained the highest smog alert amid unfavourable weather conditions, while the


Tangshan to escalate smog-alert to highest in Mar 16
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:37:00 GMT
Category-B steel mills are subject to cuts of at least 60% ... SHANGHAI, Mar 1 (SMM) Chinas top steelmaking city, Tangshan of Hebei province, would come under the highest-level smog-alert and


Brazil iron ore exports set to rise in Feb d- Secex data
Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:33:00 GMT
Reuters - reported that Brazils average daily iron ore exports in the first four weeks of this month outpaced shipments from February 2018, despite a disaster at a Vale SA facility last month


Terry McCrann: Why we need miners and banks
Sat, 23 Feb 2019 01:13:00 GMT
Now BHP didnt choose to exit Brazilian iron ore; it stopped because of its Samarco dam disaster. But that and the even bigger tragedy its Samarco partner Vale has had in its own operations shows


Assofermet hopes for revision of safeguard measures
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT
The Italian distributor, service centre and traders association, Assofermet, is hopeful for the implementation of some changes to the EUs permanent safeguard measures for steel. Changes can be made to the measures during the first revision that the European Commission has programmed during the second quarter of 2019, Kallanish notes. In a special event


Brazil wants US$230mn compensation for EU steel restrictions
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:13:00 GMT
The Brazilian government has sent a request to the European Union asking for compensation for safeguards on steel imports imposed by ... BNamericas develops thousands of news articles, analyses and


Brazil bans tailings dams after mine waste disaster
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:58:00 GMT
Vale, the worlds biggest iron ore miner, had already begun to decommission all 19 of its upstream dams after the Samarco disaster and had stopped adding more tailings to them. It had been preparing


Nickel, iron ore, steel lead rally as metals gather steam in ...
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 19:35:00 GMT
Steel prices are rising along with relevant commodities such as iron ore for the past two-three months because of reports of Chinas crackdown on polluting mills and Brazils mine accident. Since the


Definitive EU Safeguard Quotas for Mettalic Coated Sheets have ...
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT
Definitive EU Safeguard Quotas for Metallic Coated Sheets have been Shifted in favor of category B, non passivated coated sheets for automotive use In the definitive EU steel safeguards, the total quota for 4A 4B Metallic Coated Sheets is unchanged. 4A+4B quotas per country are also unchanged. But in the definitive safeguard quotas, there


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