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.
Nippon Steel to modernize blast furnace No. 4
Brazil’s CSN reports growth in net income
Carbon Friendly Solutions inks MOU with Hebei Steel Group
Xilin Steel to invest RMB 800 million in 2nd phase upgrading project
Flinders receives mining lease for Pilbara iron ore project
Turkey inks free trade framework deal with South Korea
ArcelorMittal’s rebar JV in northern Iraq moves to Erbil
ChTPZ reports decreased net profit for 2011
Siemens VAI to supply equipment for Ruukki’s new dedusting system
Taiwan launches AD investigations of certain steel product imports
Molong Petroleum Machinery to commission oil pipe processing project
Inner Mongolia limits ferrous alloy production
WISCO delivers rail steel to Sierra Leone
New magnetite iron ore deposit discovered in China’s Anhui Province
ArcelorMittal Poland commissions new PCI facility
NLMK’s net profit improves in 2011
March 19– March 25, 2012 Weekly market report.. Banchero Costa
Lakeside shareholders approve acquisition by JMC Steel
US raw steel production rises 1.8 percent
Reliance Steel subsidiary acquires Worthington’s Tennessee plant
Pakistan’s scrap imports up 14.2 percent in January
Turkish metal manufacturing capacity usage up slightly in March
Colombian iron and steel output up 24.4 percent in January
Japanese steel exports up 10 percent in Feb over Jan
Turkish construction sector confidence index up 7% in March
Falling prices in LME billet market
Toscelik: US drilling pipe demand surprisingly strong this year
MMK to expand galvanized flat steel facilities in 2012
Aquila and Vale resolve coal dispute
Trafford signs iron ore agreement with Independence Group
CISA: Steelmakers and miners should work to create win-win situation
Jiecheng Galvanized Rolling Plate commissions new galvanized project
Wuyang Steel wins bidding to supply Lufeng 7-2 oilfield project
Net profit of Xining Special Steel Holdings up 39 percent in 2011
Chinese steel inventories remain above 18 million mt
Scrap switches to sideways movement on Orbis Steel Index
Atlas to acquire remaining Daltons iron ore rights
Latest freight rate indications from Banchero Costa
US and Canadian rig counts slump
Australia floods cut production and earnings estimates for Peabody
Severstal NA CEO “perplexed” by new DOE federal grants
US Steel plans restart of Hamilton HDG line
Taiwan’s basic metal output up 13.7 percent in Feb over Jan
South Korea’s domestic car sales up 5.5 percent in February
JISF: Japanese crude steel output to fall 2% in FY 2012-13
Confidence in French manufacturing sector improves in March
World DRI output down five percent in Feb from Jan
Big three mining giants to join Chinese iron ore spot trading platform
US initiates AD and CVD investigation on stainless steel sinks from China
Damstahl: European stainless steel demand improves in 2012
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