Latin American steel group Ternium expects sales of steel slab to continue rising in the second quarter of 2019, after an increase of 8.51% year on year in the first quarter.
The company sold 880,000 tonnes of steel slab in the first three months of the year, compared with 811,000 tonnes a year before, it said on Thursday May 2."Our slab facility in [Brazil's] Rio de Janeiro state is doing well, and we expect it to increase sales in the second quarter [compared with the first quarter] due to higher sales to third parties," chief executive officer M??ximo Vedoya said.The company's slab facility in Brazil was acquired in...