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Italy increases steel exports to non-EU countries in Jan-Nov 2011

Italian steel exports up 12.7 percent in Jan-Oct 2011, imports up 9.8 percent

Italian steelmaker Lucchini expected to be sold by 2014

ThyssenKrupp Nirosta seeks permit for relocation of cold rolling mill

Murchison receives environmental approval for mine expansion

Australia’s Riversdale wins exploration rights to Alaskan coal deposit

Tata Steel’s third quarter sales decline

China’s daily crude steel output declines in late December

Jinan Steel Group records sales revenue of RMB 38 billion in 2011

Echeng Steel sees strong surge in its finished steel exports in 2011

Acheng Steel commissions its 1,080 cubic meter blast furnace

CISA appoints Cao Huiquan as vice chairman

Handan Steel to export HX220YD+Z HDG auto sheet to Italy

January 2– January 8, 2012 Weekly market report.. Banchero Costa

US DOT announces $1.6 billion in road and bridge repair funding

Canadian building permits fall slightly in November

US weekly raw steel production rises 1.3 percent

Icahn sends another letter to CMC shareholders urging tendering

US Steel Corp’s underperforming Serbian plant leads to cutbacks

Schnitzer Steel CEO predicts continued strength in US scrap market

Severstal North America launches new galvanizing line in Dearborn

Turkey’s CR coil and sheet imports up 5.7 percent in Nov over Oct

Turkey’s steel pipe exports down two percent in 2011

Manganese ore exports via Port Hedland up 26.4 percent in 2011

France’s construction cost index up 6.8 percent in Q3 2011

Turkey’s basic metal production index up four percent in Nov

France’s steel product export value up 13 percent in Jan-Nov

Prices fall sharply in LME billet market

Chongqing Steel’s crude steel output exceeds 6 million mt in 2011

Montenegrin steel mill ZEHK offered for sale

Scrap indexes still rise on Orbis Steel Index

Siemens VAI to modernize bar mill of Chinese steelmaker

EUROFER files CVD complaint for Chinese organic coated sheet

Valin Steel receives RMB 1.168 million in government subsidies in 2011

Dniepropetrovsk Tube Works to expand output capacities

Evraz UGOK’s iron ore concentrate and agglomerate outputs rise in 2011

Nanjing Iron & Steel United produces over 2 million mt of medium plate in 2011

130.7 billion mt of new coal reserves discovered in Xinjiang in 2011

Shagang Group’s rolled steel exports exceed 2 million mt in 2011

Hansteel receives export order for 8,100 mt of PPGI

ASSOCHAM welcomes India’s iron ore export duty hike

Commercial Metals Company back in the black after Q4 loss

US unemployment rate falls while Canada’s rises again

Good news across the board for annual North American rail traffic

US rig counts unchanged as Canadian rig counts surge

US rebar fabrication market oversupplied according to CMC CEO

US DOE rescinds $730 million loan for Severstal North America

Turkey’s pig iron imports down 2.4 percent in Nov from Oct

EU-27 unemployment rate at 9.8 percent in November

Turkey’s steel profile exports up eight percent in 2011


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