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.
AK Steel first of many to develop interest in new blast furnace technology
Welspun announces second round of expansion at Arkansas pipe plant
Turkish steel industry seeks opportunities in Pakistan and Bangladesh
China’s first coal exchange center opens for business
Outokumpu’s Tornio site exposed to radiation through recycled steel
Qingdao Steel awaits approval for relocation to Dongjiakou harbor zone
New steel production base to be built in Anyang by 2015
Rizhao establishes mineral import and export association
Turkish construction sector confidence index rises in February
Italy and Uzbekistan discuss increased cooperation
Home sales in Turkey increase in fourth quarter
China’s new proven iron ore reserves total 2.38 billion mt in 2011
MOC criticizes EU’s CVD investigation on Chinese organic coated plate
Shagang Group’s net profit down 26.69 percent in 2011
Bekaert registers sales growth in all markets except China
Benxi Steel expands wide and thin HR plate product range
Gas leak at Meishan Steel results in three deaths
NLMK’s scrap processing unit expands in 2011
Global pig iron output declines in January
Turkish metal manufacturing capacity usage down in Feb from Jan
Georgia’s scrap exports to Turkey decline in January
2012 starts with decrease in Japanese steel exports
New residential building starts in Sweden down 14% in 2011
Turkey’s chrome ore exports total 2.17 million mt in 2011
India’s DRI output up seven percent in January
Timken invests $225 million into Ohio plant after passage of new labor agreement
Atlas Tube, Nippon and Mitsui join to bring jumbo HSS to North America
Corsa Coal continues positive outlook despite slow start to 2012
US Architecture Billings Index increases for the third month in a row
Cabot Oil & Gas join Williams Partners to create natural gas pipeline
Vallourec posts positive numbers for Q4 and full-year 2011
Ternium posts lower numbers during Q4 but remains positive in full-year results
US finished steel imports increased by 31 percent during January
Czech miner NWR’s net profit down in 2011
Jianlong Steel Group’s crude steel output rises 23 percent in 2011
Hengyang Valin Steel Tube Co.'s tubes for offshore platforms approved by ABS
Wuyang Steel produces steel plates for heavy vehicle production
Benxi Steel further cuts energy usage in steel production
Xiangtan Steel increases high-strength plate output capacity
Four cities in China’s Anhui Province to stop coal mining by end of 2015
EU launches CVD investigation on organic coated steel plate from China
NLMK to keep February slab export volume at January level
Work resumes at three Mechel plants in Romania
BHP Billiton to suspend works at Tasmanian alloy facility
Canadian pig iron output down 4.5 percent in 2011
EU-27 new industrial orders up 1.3 percent in Dec over Nov
New motor vehicle registrations in Turkey up 28.2 percent in 2011
Global crude steel output down 8.9 percent in January
New orders in German building construction up 4.4% in 2011
Walter Energy posted a surge in revenue in 2011 from 2010
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