AK Steel AKS +5.09% said today that the company's Middletown (OH) Works coke plant has received the Max Eward Safety Award from the American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute (ACCCI), a leading industry trade organization.
Reuters reported that a trade union has demanded Japan's largest steelmaker, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation hike basic wages for the first time in 14 years and share the profits generated by the government's Abenomics stimulus policies.
[Ferro-Alloys.com] Spain’s output of crude steel in 2013 was up by 1.5% year-on-year, totaled at 13.8 million tons, but the figure is similar to the level back to 1997.
Ferro-alloys.com] National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) released 2013 iron & steel industry running report recently. According to the report, profit of steel industry was RMB 258.8 billion (USD43.1 billion) in 2013,