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.
Russian court blocks MMK’s purchase of Australian miner
China’s PMI rises to 53.1 in March
Carbon plate and stainless bar up for US DOC review
Production and employment bolster US PMI in March
US construction spending falls 1.1 percent in February
US DOC and ITC begin third review of German pipe
US DOC sets CVD on Turkish standard pipe imports
Timken increases bar finishing capacity with new UT inspection line
US raw steel production drops 2.4 percent
Steel Technologies’ new Mexico plant to start up this year
Germany increases its motor vehicle exports to Turkey
EU-27 unemployment rate at 10.2 percent in February
Turkey’s GDP up 8.5 percent in 2011
Turkey’s steel export value down three percent in March
Japan’s steel exports up 9.5 percent in Feb over Jan
Prices switch to uptrend in LME billet market
Turkey’s steel import value up 8.7 percent in Feb over Jan
Dalbeler at IREPAS meeting: We should remember how to manage stability
Nippon Steel reduces valuation loss for FY 2011-12
Pangang Steel Vanadium & Titanium achieves HRP output target for Q1
Masteel sees 93.7 percent fall in net profit in 2011
Raspadskaya posts reduced net profit for 2011
Export duty on Russian scrap may be reduced from 2013
Liaoyang Steel Tube starts production at welded pipe facility
Largest steel trading center in southeast China to be built in Jiangjin
Baosteel to deliver S355 thick plate to Total
Bayi Steel to supply plate for Alashankou oil depot expansion
Chongqing Steel to invest RMB 1.925 billion to relocate old steelmaking equipment
BHP Billiton declares force majeure at Bowen Basin coal mines
Latest freight rate indications from Banchero Costa
Orbis Steel Index mostly sees sideways or downward movement
POSCO’s Indian steel project faces further delays
Tianjin Haigang Steel Sheet to commission galvanized strip line
Baosteel records net profit of RMB 7.362 billion in 2011
Afferro and Severstal further delay closing of Putu iron ore stake sale
Canadian rig count plummets again as US rigs rebound
JMC completes Lakeside Steel acquisition
Turkey’s steel sector foreign trade deficit declines in February
Eurostat expects 2.6 percent euro area annual inflation in Feb
Bermuda-based FeOre to start building iron ore project in Mongolia
Japan’s ferroalloy imports down four percent in Jan-Feb
Canada’s basic metal product prices down 4.6 percent in Feb
Japanese auto output up 19.7 percent in February
Xiwang Special Steel’s net profit rises 84.5 percent in 2011
Jianbang Group to commission new wire rod project in May
Xinyegang Steel develops corrosion-resistant 13Cr seamless pipe
Zhongyou Precision Pipe inaugurates new welded pipe R&D center
Bayi Steel starts construction on metal product processing facilities
Severstal completes overhaul of rolling mill 5000 at Cherepovets Steel Mill
Hormozgan Steel’s semi-finished steel output reaches 118,000 mt
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