Latest Steel News
SteelOrbis offers the latest independent steel news coverage compiled by its worldwide steel industry network. Approximately 25 fresh news articles on topics most prominently affecting the steel industry at large can be viewed on the steel news pages everyday in four different languages.
JSW Steel to start electrical steel production
Chengde Steel subsidiary sees increased specialty steel output
Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes’ net profit rises 8.46 percent in 2011
China’s crude steel output totals 112.616 million mt in Jan-Feb
China’s coal demand to reach 4.2 billion mt by 2015
Tangshan Steel delivers 7,171 mt of steel angles in February
Jinxi Jinlan starts production at new silicon steel facility
Panzhihua Steel issues iron ore concentrate output data for Feb
Emirates Steel to ramp up production, enhancing product mix
Scrap sees decline on Orbis Steel Index
Mechel halts smelting at Romanian plant due to malfunction
US and Canada report improved employment levels in February
North American rail traffic increases slightly in February
US DOC makes positive determination on imports of butt-weld pipe fittings
US and Canadian rig counts fall by double digits
US trade deficit climbs 4.3 percent in January
AD reviews on Taiwanese HRC rescinded per Nucor and US Steel’s request
Turkey’s stainless flat steel imports up 34.4% in January
German crude steel output up six percent in Feb over Jan
S. African iron and steel output up 8.6 percent in January
Russia’s stainless steel imports up 28.6% in January
Japan’s galvanized sheet shipments continue to fall in January
German manufacturing turnover up 0.4% in Jan over Dec
BREE: Australia’s resources and energy exports increase in 2011
Hebei Steel Group not to expand steel production capacity in 2012
Russian scrap exports by rail rise in January-February
NSL Consolidated’s Indian beneficiation plant on track for first sales
Italy’s industrial output index drops down in January
Japanese mills in talks with S. Korea on Q2 shipbuilding plate prices
South African coal terminal sees improved exports in February
Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes commissions Hejing special steel project
Bayi Steel revises 2011 net profit up to RMB 482 million
JISCO produces Q370R pressure vessel plate
Chongqing Steel completes hot commissioning of ladle furnace No. 2
Tianjin Master Seamless Steel Pipe commissions 180 mm seamless pipe mill
China’s CPI rises 3.2 percent in February, PPI unchanged
POSCO commissions second stainless steel mill in Vietnam
LIORC sees decreased profit in 2011
North American units drive increased sales for Klöckner
Canada’s housing starts increase in February
Keystone XL Pipeline faces another setback
Peabody Energy realigns global operations
Alfa Acciai unveils scrap partnership with Harsco Metals
EU scrap price index down in February
EU scrap consumption rises 4.5 percent in 2011
S. Africa’s carbon and alloy steel product imports up 52.4% in 2011
Turkey’s basic metal production index up 8.4 percent in January
Turkey’s pig iron imports almost double in January
Japan’s HR steel product shipments continue to fall in January
Moldavian Steel Works resumes crude steel production
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