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.
Coal exports from South Africa’s RBCT up 4.31 percent in 2012
Baosteel posts 40 percent rise in 2012 net profit amid divestments
ArcelorMittal to issue shares to reduce debt
ArcelorMittal submits bid for ThyssenKrupp’s Alabama rolling mill
MMFX Technologies appoints former Severstal exec to CEO
AZZ Incorporated acquires Nova Scotia-based galvanizing plant
Coal trade on US Great Lakes slumps 8.2 percent in 2012
TransCanada chosen to build British Columbia gas pipeline
Canadian housing starts fall again in December
Freight shipments in the US increase 1.7 percent in November
Brazil’s flat steel exports down 6.5 percent in Dec from Nov
Brazil’s passenger car output up 4.1 percent in 2012
Turkish wire rod exports decline in November
Turkish Steel Exporters' Association sets up Matil Corp. to provide R&D services
Turkey’s automotive sales down 10 percent in 2012
Coal exports from Australia’s Newcastle port decline
FIRB approves Angang Group HK’s purchase of shares in Gindalbie
Steel enterprises in Hebei see 50.34% fall in gross profit in Jan-Nov
ArcelorMittal considers opening blast furnace at Dunkerque, France
China’s crude steel output declines further in late Dec
JISCO to invest RMB 490 million in railway expansion project
Hebei Steel plans to issue corporate bonds worth RMB 5 billion
HEI’s CoAL share subscription granted approval by Chinese authorities
LKAB resumes operations at Gruvberget open-pit mine
Vallourec renews OCTG supply agreement with Brazil’s Petrobras
Taigang Stainless to issue short-term bonds worth RMB 9 billion
Iron ore concentrate output at Tonggang’s Banshi mine rises in 2012
Kobe Steel announces Q3 reversal of loss on write-down in H1 FY 2012-13
Schnitzer incurs net loss in fiscal Q1 as scrap prices plummet
CITT finds China dumped plate into Canada
US DOC calculates no dumping margin on Mexican HSS
EU-27 unemployment rate stable in November
Turkey’s steel pipe exports up 15.8 percent in 2012
Industrial producer prices slightly down in Nov in Europe
German passenger car output down three percent in 2012
UAE keeps rebar import duty unchanged for cutters and benders
Turkey’s basic metals output up 19.9 percent in November
France’s steel product export value falls 2.9 percent in Jan-Nov
Latest freight rate indications from Banchero Costa – Dec 31-Jan 6
Shandong Taigang produces 254,000 mt of crude steel in Nov
Chongqing Steel’s finished steel output down 11.8 percent in 2012
Meishan Mining produces 2.3428 million mt of iron ore concentrate in 2012
SAIL’s pig iron output up two percent in April-December 2012
Shuicheng Steel’s finished steel output reaches 5 million mt in 2012
Steel sector integration to be stepped up in Chengdu, Sichuan
Laigang Group registers net loss of RMB 110 million in Nov
Siemens VAI introduces new pelletizing technology
Ferrexpo’s iron ore pellet output down 1.2 percent in 2012
Coal of Africa inks marketing deal with Vitol
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