On September 1, Japan's JFE Steel announced that it resumes commercial production after modernization of the pipe rolling mill at its Chita Works, which focuses on manufacturing welded and seamless pipes of 177.8-426mm diameter with 4.3-55mm wall thickness...

Global pipe manufacturer Tenaris plans to expand production of seamless pipes from 780,000tpy to 1.23mtpy at its TenarisTamsa plant in Mexico by 2011. The project cost is estimated at ...

Italian seamless pipe market is gradually recovering after the summer vacations season, and the number of import offers is increasing. Good news for European buyers has been reduction of quotations for Chinese seamless pipes by ...

The newly-established Dar Al Nihal company (Iraq) is planning to start up a plant next year to produce 300,000tpy of hollow sections. Trial operations are ...

Price drop continues in the Chinese welded pipe market, but not at as high rates as before, due, to a large extent, to expansion of sales markets on European consumers returning from summer vacations. Despite the AD-investigation ...

Italy's Padana Tubi, which used to specialize in manufacture of welded stainless pipes, will start commercial production of welded pipes and ...

Since September 2, Interpipe (Ukraine) reduced export prices for ERW pipes 219mm by $120/t, 273-426mm – by ...

In Turkish market, extremely low buyers' activity is still seen in the segment of welded pipes. Export prices for welded pipes of HR coils have declined by ...

Volzhsky Pipe Plant (Russia) is going to launch a new heat-treatment line at its No.3 pipe-rolling shop. By now, the line, supplied by Olivotto Ferre (Italy), has successfully undergone hot trials. The producer plans to complete pre-commissioning by the end of ...

On August 26, Steel Authority of India (SAIL) announced that it started constructing the fifth Steel Processing Unit (SPU) capable of producing 100,000t of TMT bars annually in ...

Due to adverse trends in the global market, Turkish producer of welded round pipes and hollow sections MMZ Onur Boru is planning to reduce its output by 5% this year ...

As a result of price decrease for Russian and domestically produced round billet for Ukrainian pipemakers (by $170/t in a month), export quotations of Ukrainian seamless pipes have fallen by ...

The Chinese market for seamless pipes is evidently demonstrating a price drop tendency, though the degree of downward correction of export and local prices is different, and vary additionally depending on producer’s size. On the whole, domestic quotations in the last two weeks have decreased by ...

The downward correction of import quotations for seamless pipes is being seen in Turkish market now. Foreign suppliers had to reconcile themselves with low demand in Turkish market, thus the price fall varied in the past month from ...

On August 27, Slovak pipemaker Zeleziarne Podbrezova announced the closure of the deal for purchase of a 65% stake in Transformaciones Metalurgias S.A ...