PAKISTAN STEEL MILLS STABILISES PRODUCTION, BUT DEEP SEATED PROBLEMS REMAIN
February 1st, 2012
BY RAHIMULLAH YUSUFZAI, IN PESHAWAR
PAKISTAN Steel Mills (PSM) has started stabilising its production after receiving 55,000 metric tonnes of coal from Australia and could make further improvements if it regularly received raw material, a spokesman for the country's sole mega steel facility said.
Syed Abdul Hafeez Shah told Metal Bulletin that the arrival of a ship carrying Australian coal at Port Qasim, near Karachi, on January 12 had boosted metallurgical coke production, as well as increasing its gas output, enabling the PSM to generate additional 12 ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.