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.
Tata Steel becomes core supplier to France’s PSA Peugeot Citroën
Xining Special Steel starts upgrade of steel bar production line
Walter Energy expects 2013 sales to be in line with 2012 volumes
China’s auto sales reach 2.0345 million units in January
Jigang’s plate plant sees sales revenue of RMB 4.946 billion in 2012
US ITC to conduct second review against HRC from six countries
Earnings shrink for Olympic Steel in 2012 on “disappointing” Q4
ALJ shakes up management per Optima Specialty Steel’s request
Competitiveness Committee urges Mexico’s Ministry of Economy to apply CVDs
Sims Metal Management CEO to retire in June
Turkey’s HRC exports regress to 2010 levels in 2012
Japan’s coking coal imports up 4.1 percent in 2012
Latin American crude steel output down 2% in 2012
French metal industry orders up 1.4% in Q4 over Q3
New passenger car registrations in Turkey down 6% in 2012
Home sales in Turkey up three percent in 2012
Italy’s 2012 construction output index hits lowest level since 1995
Fangchenggang Zhongyi Heavy Industry installs C/Z beam line
Foreign direct investment in Chinese manufacturing down 5.8% in Jan
Gerdau’s net profit declines in 2012
EU finished steel imports down 30.46 percent in 2012
Hebei’s steelmakers achieve significant profit per ton of steel in 2012
OMK acquires Blagoveshchensk Valves Plant
Fortescue sees fall in net profit due to lower iron ore prices
Vallourec’s Saudi finishing plant fully qualified to produce premium connections
NLMK reduces flat steel shipments in February
CISA: China’s average daily crude steel output up 4.4% in early Feb
Vallourec sees decline in net profit for 2012
New World Resources issues net loss for 2012
SMS Siemag to deliver world’s largest submerged arc furnace for POSCO SNNC
US construction activity makes major year-on-year strides
US ABI score predicts major construction upturn
National Oilwell Varco and Robbins & Myers complete merger
ATA’s truck tonnage index reaches record levels in January
Japanese crude steel output increases in January
Turkey’s iron ore imports up 18 percent in 2012
Global crude steel output up slightly in January
Confidence in French manufacturing sector improves in Feb
German producers’ basic metal prices down 1.1 percent in Jan
Coal exports from Australia’s Newcastle port decrease
Namık Ekinci: Turkey regains Malaysian wire rod market
Rimera opens modernized workshop at its Izhneftemash facility
Mechel sells its Romanian steel assets
Severstal to invest $1.3 billion in 2013
Belarusian crude steel output down 0.8 percent in January
Xuanhua Steel’s high-strength rebar enters South American market
Upgrade of Ilva facilities is imminent, with 6,500 temporary layoffs
Russian iron ore concentrate output down two percent in January
Yulong Lianfeng stainless CR project to be commissioned by May
Aperam to form JV to bid for Outokumpu’s Terni divestment
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