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.
Sweden’s SSAB to extend summer maintenance outage
Global recession takes heavy toll on Argentine steel production
Guangzhou JFE to start construction of cold strip mill
NLMK launches staff retraining programs
Amurmetall restarts operations at rolling mill shop
Ashinskiy recommissions third open hearth furnace
India’s January iron ore exports bounce by 22 percent year on year
Belon invests in production and targets higher output in 2009
Ukrainian ferroalloy producers cut prices for domestic market
Thai-German suspends production in Rayong
Danish company Metalcolour acquires SSAB Laminated Steel
US DOC imposes AD duty order on imports of circular welded austenitic stainless pressure pipe from China
Brazilian steel output grows 2.3% in February
Nucor releases lower Q1 earnings guidance
Australia’s FIRB delays Chinalco decision by 90 days
China’s Ansteel issues 2008 shipbuilding plate figures
LME billet contracts speed up
India’s JSW Steel eyes rural markets instead of exports
MMK restarts construction of polymer coating line No. 2
Ukraine’s KSZ delays production restart
Turkish mill Kardemir’s net profit up by 106 percent in 2008
Rautaruukki to initiate layoff negotiations
Russian mills may cut 60,000 jobs in 2009
Maanshan Steel initiates another major capacity expansion
China’s coal imports surge by over 70 percent in February
Chinese regulatory body gives green light to steel futures trading
Brazil’s Vale does not rule out further production cuts
Thailand to impose AD duty on cold rolled stainless steel
Kazakhstan issues Jan-Feb 2009 production data
Ukraine’s steel output may decrease by 19.1 percent in 2009
8-13 March Weekly market report.. Banchero Costa
US Steel to suspend four more coke batteries at Clairton Works
Olympic Steel cuts 105 employees at Pennsylvania plate processing plant
US raw steel production drops six percent
Federacciai president Giuseppe Pasini: “Price slump will come to an end”
ArcelorMittal Galati to send workers on temporary leave
Vietnamese steelmakers seek higher import duties
Kobe Steel and Sojitz to form $300 million iron production venture in Vietnam
Severstal Cherepovets may restart HDG unit depending on market conditions
Shanxi Coking Industry Association lowers prices by RMB 150/mt
Pakistan cuts ITP of steel products by 24 percent
US DOC extends deadline for preliminary results of SS sheet and strip from Japan and Taiwan
Russia’s FAS imposes fine on Sibuglemet
US DOC issues final results of fourteenth administrative review of certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat ...
Russian steelmaker NLMK operates at 85 percent capacity
Australian parliament overrides Greens’ objections to CHALCO’s Rio Tinto bid
WISCO cuts output by 15 percent due to steel price decline
US ITC issues final determination on welded stainless steel pressure pipe from China
Hyundai Steel raises output up to 80 percent
Chinese mills Ansteel and Pangang to merge within three years
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