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.
Salzgitter’s profit surges on back of sales growth in 2011
WISCO inks long-term iron ore purchase deal with SNIM
Shanxi Province targets 850 million mt coal output this year
Italy’s GDP up 1.7 percent in 2011
Evraz UGOK’s iron ore concentrate and agglomerate outputs rise in Feb
Russian coal output increases in first two months
JSW’s crude steel output declines in February from January
Baogang commissions new billet casting machine
China’s steel sector PMI declines to 42.8 in February
Italy’s non-EU steel imports almost halved in January
Italy’s steel exports up 12.1 percent in 2011, imports up six percent
Italian industrial output sales prices up 0.7 percent in Jan from Dec
Latest freight rate indications from Banchero Costa
Scrap maintains upward movement on Orbis Steel Index
Vale opens new distribution center and pelletizing plant in Oman
McJunkin Red Man earns $29 million in 2011 after 2010 loss
Oil drilling leads US rig count increase while Canadian rig counts fall again
SME Steel to shutter Idaho facility
RG Steel plans tin plate line closure, increased HDG production
Spanish crude steel output down 13 percent in January
Italy’s new car registrations in February hit 28-year low
Tubos Reunidos’ sales revenue up 37 percent in 2011
EU-27 industrial producer prices up 0.7% in Jan over Dec
South Korea’s car sales fall 18 percent in January
Employment in Turkish basic metal industry up 7.1 percent in Q4
Japan’s ferroalloy imports down 3.4 percent in January
Turkey’s steel export value up 8.7% in Feb over Jan
French manufacturing turnover up 6.2% in Q4 2011
A M Castle & Co reports net loss of $1.8 million for 2011
US construction spending flattens out during January
Empire Industries sells KWH Constructors and Somerset Engineering for C$1.4 million
Tenaris acquires sucker rod facility in Romania
Ukrainian steel pipe output rises in January-February
Kailuan Group holds 30 percent stake in Shougang Jingtang
Antai Group to commission 180 square meter sintering machine
Ukraine’s coal mining output up 7.2 percent in Jan-Feb
Ukraine issues production results for first two months
Metinvest subsidiary Azovstal cuts production in Jan-Feb
Voestalpine to invest in high strength steel for automotive industry
Auto sales in Japan rise 32 percent in February
Shougang Jingtang produces 1,950 mm IF cold rolled sheets
Xinjiang Gaoyi Smelting to invest RMB 1.5 billion in blast furnace project
Construction starts on planned largest steel service center in Henan
Hansteel to deliver 30,000 mt of X52 pipeline steel to Xinjiang project
Jixing Pipe Technology breaks ground for composite steel pipe project
Angang Cold Rolled Plate targets output of 400,000 mt in 2012
Rio Tinto signs service contract for Pilbara expansion project
Sundance inks infrastructure deal for Mbalam/Nabeba iron ore project
Australia’s Downer to supply rolling stock for BHP Billiton
US PMI falls 1.7 percent in February, but overall economy still expanding
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