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.
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
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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
Japan’s CR sheet and strip shipments fall in November
Brazil’s iron ore export volume rises in December
Iron ore exports from Australia’s Port Hedland up 18% in 2011
CISA member companies see decline in net profit in November
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