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.
EU-27 new industrial orders down 1.4 percent in Nov from Oct
Morale in French manufacturing sector declines in January
Georgia’s scrap exports to Turkey down 27.5 percent in 2011
New orders in German building construction rise in November
World DRI output up 12.2 percent in 2011
January 16– January 22, 2012 Weekly market report.. Banchero Costa
International Ferro Metals’ ferrochrome output up 71% in Q4 over Q3
Nickel Mountain Swedish resources upgraded to indicated status
Rio Tinto achieves majority stake in Ivanhoe Mines
Vyksa Steel Works sees 13 percent drop in steel pipe output in 2011
London Mining to raise funds to speed up Marampa mine expansion
WPG Resources back in iron ore business
Severstal’s pipe production unit improves output in 2011
Kobe Steel establishes steel wire processing company in China
TMK sees growth in pipe shipments for 2011
Armenian steelmaker orders new bar mill for Charentsavan location
Robert Bauer to take over as President and CEO of LB Foster
US anti-dumping duties on stainless wire rod from India to continue
McJunkin Red Man opens new pipe distribution facility in Wyoming
Lakeside Steel grants another extension to unnamed buyer
Marmon/Keystone suffers tornado damage to Birmingham facility
US weekly raw steel production climbs 1.4 percent
MMFX and Cascade Steel enter into rebar manufacturing agreement
Global crude steel output up 6.8 percent in 2011
South Korea’s car output up nine percent in 2011
Mexican car output hits all-time high in 2011
Steel leading index for US down 0.4 percent in Oct from Sept
France’s metal industry orders up four percent in Nov over Oct
Taiwan’s basic metal output rises by 5.33 percent in 2011
Falling trend in LME billet market prices
AZZ Incorporated to expand HDG operations with acquisition of Galvan Metals
US and Canadian rig counts increase
Lakeside Steel extends negotiation period with their potential buyer
ThyssenKrupp makes clear they are not planning to back out of the Americas
Turkish crude steel output to rise by 10 percent in 2012
African Iron directors accept Exxaro offer
Baku Steel orders news electric arc furnace from Siemens VAI
US investment fund reportedly interested in buying ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali
Vale lifts force majeure on certain iron ore shipments
German-based Elbe Stahlwerke Feralpi to install EAF heat recovery system
New World Resources sets average coking coal and coke prices for Q1 2012
NLMK relaunches electric arc furnace at long steel division
Scrap moves downwards on Orbis Steel Index
BHP Billiton receives approval for harbor expansion project
Outokumpu confirms talks with ThyssenKrupp for stainless merger
EU manufacturing output up 0.9% in Sept-Nov 2011
Taiwan’s basic metal export orders up 13 percent in 2011
Turkey’s building construction costs up 13.8 percent in Q4
German average metal prices up 9.2 percent in 2011
Japanese crude steel output down 1.8 percent in 2011
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