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Mechel posts improved steel product sales for 2011

AK Steel anticipates continued strength in US flat steel market

Earnings surge 98 percent for Steel Dynamics in 2011

DJJ subsidiary Trademark Metals acquires Gulf Cost Metals

US finished steel imports increase 15 percent in 2011

AK Steel cites raw material costs for Q4 loss

EU-27 new industrial orders down 1.4 percent in Nov from Oct

Morale in French manufacturing sector declines in January

Georgia’s scrap exports to Turkey down 27.5 percent in 2011

New orders in German building construction rise in November

World DRI output up 12.2 percent in 2011

January 16– January 22, 2012 Weekly market report.. Banchero Costa

International Ferro Metals’ ferrochrome output up 71% in Q4 over Q3

Nickel Mountain Swedish resources upgraded to indicated status

Rio Tinto achieves majority stake in Ivanhoe Mines

Vyksa Steel Works sees 13 percent drop in steel pipe output in 2011

London Mining to raise funds to speed up Marampa mine expansion

WPG Resources back in iron ore business

Severstal’s pipe production unit improves output in 2011

Kobe Steel establishes steel wire processing company in China

TMK sees growth in pipe shipments for 2011

Armenian steelmaker orders new bar mill for Charentsavan location

Robert Bauer to take over as President and CEO of LB Foster

US anti-dumping duties on stainless wire rod from India to continue

McJunkin Red Man opens new pipe distribution facility in Wyoming

Lakeside Steel grants another extension to unnamed buyer

Marmon/Keystone suffers tornado damage to Birmingham facility

US weekly raw steel production climbs 1.4 percent

MMFX and Cascade Steel enter into rebar manufacturing agreement

Global crude steel output up 6.8 percent in 2011

South Korea’s car output up nine percent in 2011

Mexican car output hits all-time high in 2011

Steel leading index for US down 0.4 percent in Oct from Sept

France’s metal industry orders up four percent in Nov over Oct

Taiwan’s basic metal output rises by 5.33 percent in 2011

Falling trend in LME billet market prices

AZZ Incorporated to expand HDG operations with acquisition of Galvan Metals

US and Canadian rig counts increase

Lakeside Steel extends negotiation period with their potential buyer

ThyssenKrupp makes clear they are not planning to back out of the Americas

Turkish crude steel output to rise by 10 percent in 2012

African Iron directors accept Exxaro offer

Baku Steel orders news electric arc furnace from Siemens VAI

US investment fund reportedly interested in buying ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali

Vale lifts force majeure on certain iron ore shipments

German-based Elbe Stahlwerke Feralpi to install EAF heat recovery system

New World Resources sets average coking coal and coke prices for Q1 2012

NLMK relaunches electric arc furnace at long steel division

Scrap moves downwards on Orbis Steel Index

BHP Billiton receives approval for harbor expansion project


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