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Spanish crude steel output down 13 percent in January

Italy’s new car registrations in February hit 28-year low

Tubos Reunidos’ sales revenue up 37 percent in 2011

EU-27 industrial producer prices up 0.7% in Jan over Dec

South Korea’s car sales fall 18 percent in January

Employment in Turkish basic metal industry up 7.1 percent in Q4

Japan’s ferroalloy imports down 3.4 percent in January

Turkey’s steel export value up 8.7% in Feb over Jan

French manufacturing turnover up 6.2% in Q4 2011

A M Castle & Co reports net loss of $1.8 million for 2011

US construction spending flattens out during January

Empire Industries sells KWH Constructors and Somerset Engineering for C$1.4 million

Tenaris acquires sucker rod facility in Romania

Ukrainian steel pipe output rises in January-February

Kailuan Group holds 30 percent stake in Shougang Jingtang

Antai Group to commission 180 square meter sintering machine

Ukraine’s coal mining output up 7.2 percent in Jan-Feb

Ukraine issues production results for first two months

Metinvest subsidiary Azovstal cuts production in Jan-Feb

Voestalpine to invest in high strength steel for automotive industry

Auto sales in Japan rise 32 percent in February

Shougang Jingtang produces 1,950 mm IF cold rolled sheets

Xinjiang Gaoyi Smelting to invest RMB 1.5 billion in blast furnace project

Construction starts on planned largest steel service center in Henan

Hansteel to deliver 30,000 mt of X52 pipeline steel to Xinjiang project

Jixing Pipe Technology breaks ground for composite steel pipe project

Angang Cold Rolled Plate targets output of 400,000 mt in 2012

Rio Tinto signs service contract for Pilbara expansion project

Sundance inks infrastructure deal for Mbalam/Nabeba iron ore project

Australia’s Downer to supply rolling stock for BHP Billiton

US PMI falls 1.7 percent in February, but overall economy still expanding

US automakers report improved results in February

Russia’s OMK buys US pipe finishing plant and plans additional US expansion

Namasco and Macsteel officially join to create Kloeckner Metals

AISI: US’ indirect steel trade surged 24 percent in 2010

Japanese auto output up 18.6 percent in January

Japan’s scrap exports up 32 percent in January

International Ferro Metals to shut two furnaces in S. Africa to save power

Building permits in Turkey fall 29 percent in 2011

Eurostat expects 2.6 percent euro area annual inflation in Feb

EU-27 unemployment rate at 10.7 percent in January

MIIT: Chinese apparent crude steel use to reach 690 million mt in 2012

Turkey’s steel export value up 11.4 percent in January

Essar Steel Minnesota increases planned production by 3 million tons

TMS International expands scrap yard operation in Taiwan

Port of Mobile, Alabama to expand steel storage with $7 million investment

Latrobe Specialty Metals and Carpenter Technology Corporation complete merger

Aquila confirms talks with India’s ICVL for sale of Washpool coking coal project

Outkumpu shareholders approve Inoxum acquisition

Shougang increases self-sufficiency in iron ore with Xingshan project


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