Both domestic and import quotations for welded pipes started declining in the UAE market. The reason behind this is a sudden inflow of Chinese welded pipes. Due to imposition of AD duties on Chinese welded pipes in ...

In November, Al Jazeera Steel Products (Oman) will start commercial production of long products at a 300,000tpy bar rolling mill. The company planned to start operations in January, though construction works have been ...

Owing to decline of buyers' activity in the UAE, traditional for summer season, foreign suppliers had to compromise with consumers. In particular, Ukrainian suppliers failed to realize a ...

Effective from September 22, Iran will impose a 1.5% VAT, which will replace the existing ...

Chinese suppliers, suffering from weakening demand for their material in domestic and foreign markets, had to continue downward price correction of welded pipes. Thus, export quotations for Chinese welded pipes ьфву according to API have moved down by ...

Russia's Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) signed a final agreement to acquire North American pipe manufacturer John Maneely Company (JMC) with capacity of over 3mtpy, on August 13 ...

Due to low buyers' activity in foreign markets, first of all in European one, Chinese suppliers had to decrease export quotations for seamless pipes by $30/t in the past three weeks, for tubing and casing - by ...

Azerbaijan's pipe-maker Azerboru shipped about 1,300 tonnes of seamless pipes in July, which is by 34% less than in previous month. Casing pipes were shipped in the amount of ...

The President of Ukraine has cancelled the decree, establishing reference prices for export of commodities, in particular, raw materials and steel products. From September this year, the decree ...

KSP Steel, Kazakhstan-based seamless pipe producer, resumes its stable operation this month. In July, due to the growing price and demand for ...

Chinese manufacturer of seamless pipes Wuxi Seamless Oil Pipes (WSP China), part of WSP Holdings, acquired Mengfeng Special Steel, a new 600,000tpy round billet producer in Inner Mongolia ...

Due to summer vacations in Europe, a lull is being reported in South-West European market for welded pipes. In view of almost complete absence of demand, Turkish suppliers had to decrease offer prices on average by ...

On August 4, Slovak pipemaker Zeleziarne Podbrezova announced the purchase of a 65% stake in Transformaciones Metalurgias S.A (Transmesa), the Spanish producer of ...

In July, prices in Iranian market for seamless pipes did not change greatly. Chinese seamless pipes have gone up in price on average by $20-50/t. Ukrainian producers, having raised their quotations by ...

As a result of seasonal drop of demand in Europe, which is the main sales market for Turkish pipemakers, in the last two weeks export quotations of Turkish welded pipes have dropped by ...