WiredInUSA May 2016

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The recent Eurometal conference in Prague

Cable car ropes

The European steel association, Eurofer, is said to be collecting evidence of wire rod dumping from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Turkey, prior to making a decision on filing a complaint to the European Commission. possible anti-dumping investigation into imported wire rod have been circulating in the market for about two weeks. It seems to be part of the EU strategy to become more [protectionist] when it comes to cheap imports,” a trader told reporters at Prague’s Eurometal conference. “Eurofer has not sent any official complaints or other papers to the EC yet, but the discussion is going on within Eurofer,” another trader confirmed. The monthly average of wire rod imports into the European Union increased by 23 percent year-on-year to 139,000 tonnes in 2015, according to Eurofer’s data. In the first two months of 2016, average import levels of the material reached 144,000tpm. Monthly average wire rod exports from Ukraine to the EU have increased by 24 percent, year-on-year, to 31,000 tonnes last year, and reached 35,000tpm in January-February 2016. Anti-dumping question “The rumors about the

ArcelorMittal’s WireSolutions wire drawing division inBourg-en-Bresse, France, is tosupply the steel wire rope for France’s first urban cable car, currently under construction across the Penfeld river, in the city of Brest. WireSolutions will supply four 50mm full-lock coil ropes with 12 optical fibers in each rope, and two 25mm haul ropes. A press release said that ArcelorMittal will be the sole supplier of the ropes, one of only two producers in Europe that integrates optic fibers in full-lock coil (FLC) to enable data transmission. The FLC rope offers several functions in the same component, thus enabling a cost reduction for the customer.

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