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.
Chinese central bank raises deposit reserve ratio by half a percentage point
Baosteel to build stainless steel production base at Luoyuan Bay, Fujian
Canadian government pledges $1.5 million for metal fabrication facility at Port of Belledune
North American rig counts, week ending March 18
Steel production in Argentina swells 15.1 percent year-over-year in February
Ukraine issues January coke import and export data
Vale’s iron ore sales to Japan unaffected by recent earthquake
TMK acquires 25.5 percent stake in Volgograd River Port
Ukraine’s scrap exports drop by 56 percent in January from December
Ukraine’s pig iron exports drop by 35 percent in Jan from Dec levels
Rio Tinto increases stake in Riversdale to 33.04 percent
Turkish foundry Cemas has ordered five new CNC processing machines
Sumitomo’s Kashima Steelworks resumes lightweight welded H-beams production
MMK continues 2,500 mm hot rolling mill revamping
GM halts Louisiana auto plant due to Japanese parts shortage
ISD’s DMKD masters production of 150-200 mm billets at new concaster
Ukraine’s metallurgical sector posts UAH 894.7 million loss in January
Chinese steel producers to decrease domestic steel offers in April
Laiwu Steel to decrease billet and pig iron production in 2011
Taiwan-based YUSCO decreases stainless steel export offers
CISA: Further price fluctuation expected in Chinese steel market
China’s Department of Commerce to set new regulation for iron ore market
Vale-Anyang iron ore JV to start production in March
Windpower Innovations to open New Mexico facility
Shipments from US steel mills up 5.9 percent in January
Keystone reports net loss of $4.7 million in Q4 2010
China Armco Metals and Usiminas embark on iron ore shipment agreement
Sparrows Point to restart blast furnace in May
Belarus issues steel production results for Jan-Feb
Ruukki to supply steel frames for second phase of Technopolis Ruoholahti Helsinki
Rio Tinto ups interest in Riversdale to 30.59 percent
Ukrainian steelmakers’ production costs to increase by UAH 3.4 billion
Murchison announces resumption of Jack Hills operations
Harsco wins new infrastructure orders from TATA Group
US-based CC Metals & Alloys acquired by Optima Group
Russia’s car output more than doubles in Jan-Feb
Schuff posts weak fiscal results amid low US commercial construction activity
Swedish trader BE Group closes down Danish operation
Cliffs Natural Resources to raise $1 billion through senior note offering
China to implement iron ore agent policy
South Africa doubles steel product imports in January over December
Upward trend of steel prices may not be long-lasting
Luo Bingsheng discloses China’s steel import and export data
Baosteel expects iron ore prices to be impacted by Japanese earthquake
Baosteel to initiate “Green Purchase” for supply chain upgrade
EU-27 construction output edges up one percent in January over December
Northern Italy still leads in national exports, but south ups its share in 2010
US housing starts and building permits sink in February
Steel shipments from US and Canadian service centers decline in February
Steel fabricator Bennington Iron Works to close its doors
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