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.
Slight decreases in both US and Canadian rig counts
SSAB Americas records highest operating profits in Q4 and full-year results
SAIL’s net profit down 43 percent in Q3 FY 2011-12
POSRI: South Korean HRC demand to rise two percent in 2012
Exxaro takeover offer for African Iron subject to minimum acceptance condition
Guangzhou Steel registers net loss of RMB 690 million in 2011
Hyundai Steel focuses on production of high value-added bars
Zhashui Tongxing Rolled Steel gets green light for steel plate project
Tianjin Metallurgical No. 1 Iron and Steel carries out hot test on HDG line
Pangang Group commissions coke oven No. 2 at Xichang
Latest freight rate indications from Banchero Costa
China’s steel exports dip slightly in January from December level
Baogang to commission upgraded beam production line by end of year
Scrap still decreases on Orbis Steel Index
Mining suspended at Mechel’s New-Olzherassk coal mine
Turkey’s steel profile exports down 23 percent in Jan from Dec
Brazil’s flat steel exports down 67 percent in January
Japanese hot rolled flat steel exports fall 4.3 percent in 2011
Rolled steel orders in Germany rise in Q4 from Q3 levels
US wholesale trade improves in December
Maritime Steel and Foundries denied $1.1 million loan
Salmon River Resources to receive US$2 million loan in exchange for iron ore
Pipe and tube sales drive higher sales for Atkore International
Sims Metal Management blames US economy for US$614 million write-down
Italy’s industrial output index stable in 2011
Vietnamese steelmakers seek higher import duty on stainless bars
EU tube output growth to pick up in Q4 2012
WISCO’s upgraded No. 1 silicon steel plant to start production by end of year
Mexican mill to become first to operate Siemens’ newly developed EAF
Hyundai Steel posts decline in 2011 net profit
EU makes final decision in AD order review of wire ropes and cables from China
Honghe Steel commissions new structural steel project
Baogang’s finished steel sales revenue totals RMB 40.9 billion in 2011
SMS Siemag receives largest order ever in continuous casting
Zhongtian Steel to build new special steel production facility
EUROFER: EU automotive output in 2012 to remain flat
Shougang Tonggang achieves sales revenue of RMB 26.8 billion in 2011
Jiyuan Steel to commission high-speed wire rod project
Cemtas posts net profit for 2011
Tata Steel posts net loss for Q3 FY 2011-12
Manganese ore exports via Port Hedland drop sharply in Jan
S. African iron and steel output up 2.8 percent in 2011
Brazil’s iron ore exports decline in January
Turkish finished steel output up 21.5 percent in 2011
Japan’s stainless flat steel exports fall 6.2 percent in 2011
Turkey’s HR flat steel exports up 34 percent in Jan over Dec
Turkey’s ferroalloy imports up 8.5 percent in 2011
US Freight TSI increased 3.9 percent in December
Canadian housing starts fall in January
Timken’s Ohio expansion viable again with new labor agreement
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